Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Christophe Dumas
- Cedric Ledoux (Deputy Head of Dpt.)
- Sandy Strunk (Executive Assistant)
Group Leaders
- Stéphane Brillant (VLTI Group Coordinator)
- Willem-Jan de Wit (Deputy VLTI Group Coordinator)
- Cédric Ledoux (Deputy and Operations Group Coordinator)
- TBC (Training and documentation)
- Steffen Mieske (Procedures)
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- Jonathan Smoker (UT1)
- Cedric Ledoux (UT2)
- Linda Schmidtobreick (UT3)
- Dieter Nuernberger (UT4)
- TBC (Survey Telescopes Group Coordinator)
- Alain Smette (Instrument Coordination Group Leader)
- Claudio Melo (Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator)
- Julien Girard (Adaptive Optics Group Coordinator)
- Cecilia Ceron (Data Handling Administrators Group Leader)
- Julio Navarrete (Instrument/ telescope/sub-systems commissioning)
- Andres Pino (Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader)
Telescope and Instrument Operators
- Karla Aubel
- Duncan Castex
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Angela Cortes
- Cristian Esparza
- Lorena Faundez
- Patricia Guajardo
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Manuel Olivares
- Andres Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Claudia Reyes
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
Data Handling Administrators
Astronomers
- Yazan Al Momany
- Alvaro Alvarez
- Amelio Bayo
- Giacomo Beccari
- Yuri Beletski
- Jean-Phillipe Berger
- Henri Boffin
- Gabriel Brammer
- Stéphane Brillant
- Giovanni Carraro
- Caroline Foster
- Dimitri Gadotti
- Julien Girard
- Sylvain Guieu
- George Hau
- Valentin Ivanov
- Petr Kabath
- Cédric Ledoux
- Gianluca Lombardi
- Cristophe Martayan
- Claudio Melo
- Antoine Merand
- Steffen Mieske
- Margaret Moerchen
- Lorenzo Monaco
- Guillaume Montagnier
- Dieter Nürnberger
- Fabien Patru
- Margret Pretorius
- Emanuela Pompei
- Sridharan Rengaswamy
- M. Rodrigues
- Thomas Rivinius
- Ivo Saviane
- Ruben Sanchez
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Fernando Selman
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Stan Stefl
- Thomas Szeifert
- Maja Vuckovic
- Willem Jan de Wit
- Irina Yegorova
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Andreas Kaufer (Director's Office)
- Sebastien Morel (VLTI System Engineering group)
- Michael Sterzik (Director's Office)
- Thomas Szeifert (Director's Office)