Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Christophe Dumas
- Sandy Strunk (Executive Assistant)
Group Leaders
- Stéphane Brillant (Training and documentation)
- Cédric Ledoux (General operations and procedures)
- Gianni Marconi (Software)
- Julio Navarrete (Telescope and Instrument Operators)
- Cecilia Ceron (Data Handling Administrators)
- Alain Smette (Calibrations and instruments stability)
Telescope and Instrument Operators
- Karla Aubel
- Duncan Castex
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Angela Cortes
- Jose Cortes
- Cristian Esparza
- Lorena Faundez
- Patricia Guajardo
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Julio Navarrete
- Andres Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
Data Handling Administrators
Astronomers
- Yazan Al Momany
- Paola Amico
- Andrea Ahumada
- Yuri Beletski
- Thomas Bensby
- Stéphane Brillant
- Giovanni Carraro
- Antonio de Ugarte
- Andrew Fox
- Mark Gieles
- Carla Gil
- Swetlana Hubrig
- Marc Huertas-Company
- Valentin Ivanov
- Heidi Korhonen
- Daniel Kubas
- Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin
- Cédric Ledoux
- Chris Lidman
- Gianni Marconi
- Elena Mason
- Antoine Merand
- Steffen Mieske
- Margaret Moerchen
- Guillaume Montagnier
- Dominique Naef
- Dieter Nürnberger
- Kieran O'Brien
- Emanuela Pompei
- Thomas Rivinius
- Hugues Sana
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Fernando Selman
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Stan Stefl
- Thomas Szeifert
- Masayuki Tanaka
- Elena Valenti
- Irina Yegorova
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Sebastien Morel (VLTI System Engineering group)