Tutors
| Célia Desgrange | |
| Michaël Marsset | |
| Hannah Osborne | |
| Organizers | |
| Leslie Kiefer | I am the Librarian at ESO, and I also work for the Science Office, helping with the organization of meetings and International Conferences. On the Library side, I work mostly on maintaining tools to provide metrics that help to assess ESO’s scientific impact, along with the usual Library services, like providing access to publications and other scientific content. One of my future projects is to create a historical archive with the documents and artifacts available for the most part at La Silla & Paranal, and to tell the history of astronomy in Chile. So far, I’ve helped with the organization of many conferences and two La Silla Schools, and I am looking forward to the 2026 version! On a personal side, I love dogs, reading, traveling & horror movies. |
| Elyar Sedaghati | I am an ESO staff astronomer at Paranal, originally from Iran/Armenia, although I have spent most of my adult life in the UK and Germany. I studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, and then worked in investment banking for a few years, both in London and Frankfurt. I then moved back to science and obtained my Masters and PhD in Berlin, Germany. On Paranal, I am responsible for the FORS2 and ESPRESSO instruments, as well as being involved with the development of the ANDES spectrograph for the ELT. My scientific interests are detection and characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres, as well as testing planet formation theories. I speak English, Spanish and Persian, as well as some German and Armenian. When not busy with Paranal or science or my dog, I like to either go up the mountains for skiing or head to the coast for some surfing, which makes Santiago the ideal place to live. |
