Contact Persons

The following tables describe the contact persons per instrument, project and activity. If you needsupport or if you have questions, please refer to the first contact person. The second contact personshould be called only for urgent matters in case the first one cannot reply. If you are working at ESO, please read Our Contact Policy concerning contact persons.

You will find here how to contact the staff of our department.

Activities First contact person Second contact person
Small mechanical integration work Matteo Accardo Andrew Bruton
Small optical integration work Christophe Dupuy Sebastien Tordo
Cryogenic advices Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob
Closed Cycle Cooler systems Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob
Vacuum advices Jean Louis Lizon Andrew Bruton
Cooling fluid systems Jean Paul Kirchbauer Jean Louis Lizon
Procurement of Cryogenic fluids and gases Gerd Jakob Matteo Accardo
Procurement of fastening components (screws, nuts...) Matteo Accardo Gerhard Ullmann
Procurement of vacuum standard components Matteo Accardo Andrew Bruton
Procurement of mechanical parts Jean Louis Lizon Jean Paul Kirchbauer
Procurement of optical components Christophe Dupuy Sebastien Tordo
CAD design and drawing Matteo Accardo
Thermal modeling Gerd Jakob

Contact persons for actual projects

Instruments/ Projects/ Activities First contact person Second contact person
AO test bench
AO test camera (ITC)

Sebastien Tordo
Sebastien Tordo


Jean Louis Lizon
STRAP and Tip/tilt sensor Christophe Dupuy  
PRIMA FSU upgrade (job 999) Matteo Accardo Jean Louis Lizon
OMEGACam (job 444) Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob
APE (1028) Christophe Dupuy  
X Shooter (job 873) Jean Louis Lizon  
KMOS (job 871) Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob
MUSE (job 872) Christophe Dupuy Jean Louis Lizon
MUSE Vacuum and Cryo (job 417) Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
SPHERE (job 874) Jean Louis Lizon Sebastien Tordo
SPHERE Vacuum and Cryo (job 417) Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
Deformable secondary (job 458) Sebastien Tordo Jean Louis Lizon
GRAAL (job 885) Sebastien Tordo Jean Louis Lizon
GALACSI Sebastien Tordo Jean Louis Lizon
Multiple LGS (job 1015) Christophe Dupuy Jean Louis Lizon
VSI (job 995) Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
GRAVITY (job 995) Gerd Jakob Jean Louis Lizon
MATISSE (job 995) Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob
Mad System (WP 373) Sebastien Tordo Jean Louis Lizon
CAMCAO Jean louis Lizon Sebastien Tordo

Contact persons for instruments currently installed

Instruments / systems/ activities First contact person Second contact person
VLT Test cameras Jean Louis Lizon  
ISAAC Jean Louis Lizon  
FORS Jean Louis Lizon  
UVES Jean Louis Lizon Christophe Dupuy
NAOS/CONICA Jean Louis Lizon  
GIRAFFE Jean Louis Lizon Christophe Dupuy
VIMOS Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
SINFONI Sebastien Tordo Jean Louis Lizon
SPIFFI Jean Louis Lizon  
VISIR Jean Louis Lizon  
CRIRES (WP 858) Jean Louis Lizon  
HAWK-I Jean Louis Lizon  
CCD cryostats Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
Cable wrap systems(ISAAC, NACO, VIMOS) Jean Louis Lizon  
MIDI Jean Louis Lizon  
LISA, FINITO cryostats Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
MACAO VLTI Christophe Dupuy Sebastien Tordo
AMBER spectrograph Matteo accardo Jean Louis Lizon
IRIS detector Matteo Accardo Jean Louis Lizon
Ln2 distribution VLT I Jean Louis Lizon Matteo Accardo
Vacuum systems Jean Louis Lizon Andrew Bruton
Cryogenic systems Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob
Closed cycle cooler systems Jean Louis Lizon Gerd Jakob

Contact persons for instruments currently installed in La Silla

Instruments / systems First contact person Second contact person
EMMI Jean Louis Lizon  
SOFI Jean Louis Lizon  
WFI Jean Louis Lizon  
HARPS Jean Louis Lizon