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
CCB (Change Control Board)
- Deputy CCB Chair - Stephane Brillant
Group Coordinators
- Training - Juan Carlos Munoz
- GenOps - Linda Schmidtobreick
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- UT1 - Eleonara Sani
- UT2 - Andrea Mehner
- 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
- Op-IT Interface - Stephane Brillant
- Waivers
- RAF (Remote Access Facility)
- PSE (Paranal System Engineering)
Astronomers
- Adriano Agnello
- Joe Anderson
- Liz Bartlett
- Fuyan Bian
- Stephane Brillant
- Annalisa de Cia
- Jesus Corral-Santana
- Bruno Dias
- Pedro Figueira
- Alexandre Gallenne
- Boris Haeussler
- Xavier Haubois
- George Hau
- Pascale Hibon
- Matias Jones
- Darshan Kakkad
- Cedric Ledoux
- Jorge Lillo
- Gaspare Lo Curto
- Cristophe Martayan
- Andrea Mehner
- Anthony Meilland
- Steffen Mieske
- Julien Milli
- Juan Carlos Munoz
- Cyrielle Opitom
- Claudia Paladini
- Emanuela Pompei
- Thomas Rivinius
- Florian Rodler
- Joel Sanchez
- Eleonara Sani
- Luca Sbordone
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Elyar Sedagati
- Fernando Selman
- Karleyne Silva
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Andra Stroe
- 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 Szeifert (Telescopes System Scientist)
Telescope and Instrument Operators
Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader
- Andres Pino
Deputies
- Susana Cerda
- Cristian Romero
- Ivan Aranda
- Israel Blanchard
- Francisco Caceres
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Alex Correa
- Benjamin Courtney
- Marcela Espinoza
- Robinson Faez
- Lorena Faundez
- Felipe Gaete
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Francisco Labrana
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Rodrigo Palominos
- Diego Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Claudia Reyes
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
- Rodrigo Romero
- Jose Velasquez
- Sergio Vera