Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Christophe Dumas
- Deputy Head of Sciops - Steffen Mieske
- Management Team (Musketeers):
- Executive Assistant - Sandy Strunk
System Scientists
- Telescopes, AOF - Thomas Szeifert
- VLT Instruments - Alain Smette
- VLTI - Antoine Merand
- Operations - Stephane Brillant
CCB
- CCB Chair - Stephane Brillant
Group Leaders
- Training and documentation - Henri Boffin
- GenOps - Cedric Ledoux
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- UT1 - Jonathan Smoker
- UT2 - Dimitri Gadotti
- UT3 - Yazan Momany
- UT4 - Julian Girard
- Instrument Coordination Group Leader - Alain Smette
- Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator -Christophe Martayan
- Giovanni Carraro
- Adaptive Optics Group Coordinator - Julien Girard
- STeam - Susana Cerda
- Webmaster - Thomas Rivinius
- Op-IT Interface - Stephane Brillant
- Waivers
- RAF
- PSE
- La Silla Ops Contact Scientist - Ivo Saviane
- Instrument/ telescope/sub-systems commissioning - Julio Navarrete
- Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader - Andres Pino
Telescope and Instrument Operators
- Ivan Aranda
- Israel Blanchard
- Francisco Caceres
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Alex Correa
- Cristian Esparza
- Lorena Faundez
- Felipe Gaete
- Patricia Guajardo
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Andres Parraguez
- Diego Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Claudia Reyes
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
- Rodrigo Romero
- Sergio Vera
Astronomers
- Joe Anderson
- D. Asmus
- Giacomo Beccari
- Henri Boffin
- Stephane Brillant
- Giovanni Carraro
- Steve Ertel
- Dimitri Gadotti
- Julien Girard
- Oscar Gonzalez
- George Hau
- Valentin Ivanov
- Petr Kabath
- T. Kruehler
- Cedric Ledoux
- Cristophe Martayan
- Dimitri Mawet
- Andrea Mehner
- Antoine Merand
- Steffen Mieske
- Yazan Al Momany
- Lorenzo Monaco
- Andre Mueller
- Koraljka Muzic
- Emanuela Pompei
- Farid Rahoui
- Sridharan Rengaswamy
- Thomas Rivinius
- Ivo Saviane
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Fernando Selman
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Willem Jan de Wit
- Zahed Wahhaj
- Roger Wesson
- Bin Yang
- T. Zafar
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Andreas Kaufer (Director's Office)
- Thomas Szeifert (Director's Office)