Head of Department

• Head of Department - Steffen Mieske
• HoD Deputies - 
  • Stephane Brillant
  • Alain Smette   
• System Scientists and Managers group (SysMan):
  • Stephane Brillant
  • Alain Smette
  • Xavier Haubois
  • Steffen Mieske
  • Julien Milli
  • Andres Pino
• 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
  • Xavier Haubois
  • Julien Milli
  • Alain Smette

Group Coordinators

• Training - Dimitri Gadotti
• GenOps - Linda Schmidtobreick
  
• Unit Telescope Coordinators:
  • UT1 - Jonathan Smoker
  • UT2 - Andrea Mehner
  • UT3 - Zahed Wahhaj
  • UT4 - Pascale Hibon
  • Survey Telescopes - Carlos la Fuente
  • VLTI - Willem-Jan de Wit
• Instrument Operations Group Coordinator
  - Alain Smette
  • Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator - Willem-Jan de Wit
• Webmaster - Thomas Rivinius
• Op-IT Interface - Stephane Brillant
• Waivers
  
  • Zahed Wahhaj
  • Jonathan Smoker
• RAF (Remote Access Facility)
  
  • Thomas Rivinius
  • George Hau
• PSE (Paranal System Engineering)
  
  • Stephane Brillant
  • Xavier Haubois
  • Steffen Mieske
  • Julien Milli
  • Alain Smette

Astronomers

• Andriano Agnello
• Joe Anderson
• Liz Bartlett
  
• Stephane Brillant
• Annalisa de Cia
• Jesus Corral-Santana
  
• Bruno Dias
  
• Dimitri Gadotti
• Alexandre Gallenne
• Boris Haeussler
  
• Xavier Haubois
• George Hau
• Pascale Hibon
• Yara Jaffe
  
• Evelyn Johnston
• Matias Jones
  
• Cedric Ledoux
• Jorge Lillo
• Cristophe Martayan
• Andrea Mehner
• Steffen Mieske
• Julien Milli
• Juan Carlos Munoz
• Cyrielle Opitom
  
• Claudia Paladini
• Emanuela Pompei
• Thomas Rivinius
• Florian Rodler
  
• Elyar Sedagati
• Eleonara Sani
• Luca Sbordone
  
• Linda Schmidtobreick
• Fernando Selman
• 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
• Marcela Espinoza
• Lorena Faundez
• Felipe Gaete
• Cristian Herrera
• Nestor Jimenez
• Francisco Labrana
• Carlos La Fuente
• Marcelo Lopez
• Julio Navarrete
• Diego Parraguez
• Andres Pino
• Claudia Reyes
• Leonel Rivas
• Cristian Romero
• Rodrigo Romero
• Jose Velasquez
• Sergio Vera