Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Head of Department - Steffen Mieske
- HoD Deputies -
- System Scientists and Managers group (SysMan):
- Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader - Andres Pino
- Senior Executive Assistant - Sandy Strunk
System Scientists
- VLT Instruments - Alain Smette
- VLTI - Xavier Haubois
- Operations - Stephane Brillant
- AO - Julien Milli
- Telescopes - Pascale Hibon
CCB (Change Control Board)
- Deputy CCB Chair - Stephane Brillant
Group Coordinators
- Training - Juan Carlos Munoz
- GenOps - Andrea Mehner
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- UT1 - Eleonara Sani
- UT2 - Luca Sbordone
- UT3 - Zahed Wahhaj
- UT4 - Pascale Hibon
- Survey Telescopes - Carlos la Fuente
- VLTI - Konrad Tristram
- Instrument Operations Group Coordinator
- Alain Smette- Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator - Willem-Jan de Wit
- Webmaster - Thomas Rivinius and Andrea Mehner
- Op-IT Interface - Stephane Brillant
- Waivers
- RAF (Remote Access Facility)
- PSE (Paranal System Engineering)
Astronomers
- Joe Anderson
- Trystyn Berg
- Fuyan Bian
- Stephane Brillant
- Jesus Corral-Santana
- Pedro Figueira
- Boris Haeussler
- Johanna Hartke
- Xavier Haubois
- George Hau
- Pascale Hibon
- Matias Jones
- Darshan Kakkad
- Rosita Kokotanekova
- Cedric Ledoux
- Gaspare Lo Curto
- Cristophe Martayan
- Andrea Mehner
- Steffen Mieske
- Julien Milli
- Juan Carlos Munoz
- Camila Navarrete
- Cyrielle Opitom
- Claudia Paladini
- Emanuela Pompei
- Thomas Rivinius
- Florian Rodler
- Eleonara Sani
- Luca Sbordone
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Elyar Sedagati
- Fernando Selman
- Karleyne Silva
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Thomas Szeifert
- Romain Thomas
- Konrad Tristram
- Frederic Vogt
- Zahed Wahhaj
- Willem Jan de Wit
- Bin Yang
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Andreas Kaufer (Director)
- Thomas Klein
Telescope and Instrument Operators
Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader
- Andres Pino
Deputies
- Susana Cerda
- Cristian Romero
- Ivan Aranda
- Francisco Belmar
- Israel Blanchard
- Francisco Caceres
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Alex Correa
- Benjamin Courtney
- Marcela Espinoza
- Lorena Faundez
- Felipe Gaete
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Juan Carlos Olivares
- Rodrigo Palominos
- Diego Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Claudia Reyes
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
- Rodrigo Romero
- Jose Velasquez
- Sergio Vera