Users Committee

UC Members 2018

The ESO Users Committee (UC) is made of representatives of the ESO users in each member state and includes also a representative from Australia and the host country Chile. It advises the ESO Director General on matters concerning the use of the ESO facilities (telescopes, instruments, operations tools, etc.) and constitutes the main link between ESO and its users community. Users from non-member states can provide their feedback through the UC chair and co-chair. The current list of UC members is given below.

  • Dr. Wolfgang Kausch (AT)
    University of Innsbruck
    Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics
    Technikerstr. 25
    A-6020 Innsbruck
    Austria
  • Dr. Olivier Absil (Chair) (BE)
    Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique
    Allée du 6 Août, 19c – Bât. B5c
    B-4000 Liège 1 (Sart-Tilman)
    Belgium

  • Tel: +43 512 507 52043
    Email: wolfgang.kausch at uibk.ac.at

  • Tel: + 32 (0)4 366 9724
    Fax: +32 (0)4 366 9737
    Email: olivier.absil at uliege.be
 
  • Dr. Michaela Kraus (CZ)
    Astronomical Institute
    Czech Academy of Sciences
    Fričova 258
    CZ 251 65 Ondřejov
    Czech Republic
  • Prof. Lise Bech Christensen (DK)
    Dark Cosmology Centre,
    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
    Juliane Maries Vej 32
    2100 Copenhagen Ø
    Denmark

  • Tel: +420 323 620 136
    Fax: +420 323 620 250
    Email: kraus at sunstel.asu.cas.cz

  • Tel: +45 3532 0604
    Email: lise at dark-cosmology.dk
 
  • Dr. Talvikki Hovatta (FI)
    Aalto University
    Metsähovi Radio Observatory Metsähovintie 114
    023540, Kylmälä,
    Finland
  • Dr. Nicolas F. Bouché  (FR)
    IRAP
    9 Av. Colonel Roche
    F-31400 Toulouse
    France

  • Tel: +358 29 4424859
    Email: talvikki.hovatta at aalto.fi

  • Tel: +33 5 61 55 77 78
    Email: nicolas.bouche at irap.omp.eu
 
  • Prof. Maria-Rosa Cioni  (DE)
    Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
    An der Sternwarte 16
    D-14482 Potsdam
    Germany
  • Dr. Maria Teresa Beltran (IT)
    INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
    Largo Enrico Fermi 5
    I-50125 Firenze
    Italy

  • Tel: +49 331 7499 651
    Fax: +49 331 7499 267
    Email: mcioni at aip.de

  • Tel: +39 055 2752 319
    Email: mbeltran at arcetri.astro.it
 
  • Prof. Karina I. Caputi (co-Chair) (NL)
    Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
    University of Groningen
    P.O. Box 800
    9700 AV Groningen
    The Netherlands
  • Dr. Łukasz Wyrzykowski (PL)
    Obserwatorium Astronomiczne UW
    Al. Ujazdowskie 4
    00-478 Warszawa
    Poland

  • Tel: +31 50 363 8325
    Email: karina at astro.rug.nl

  • Tel: +48 22 553 05 07
    Email: wyrzykow at astrouw.edu.pl
 
  • Dr. Nuno Peixinho (P)
    CITEUC 
    Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory
    University of Coimbra
    Rua do Observatorio s/n
    3040-004 Coimbra
    Portugal
  • Dr. María Rosa Zapatero Osorio (ES)
    Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC/INTA)
    Carretera de Ajalvir, km 4
    E-28850 Torrejón de Ardoz
    Madrid
    Spain

  • Tel: +351 239802373
    Fax: +351 239802379
    Email: peixinho at mat.uc.pt

  • Tel: +34 91 520 64 27
    Fax: +34 91 520 10 74
    Email: mosorio at cab.inta-csic.es
 
  • Dr. Sofia Ramstedt (SE)
    Department of Physics and Astronomy
    Uppsala University
    Box 516
    751 20 Uppsala
    Sweden
  • Dr. Miroslava Dessauges (CH)
    Geneva Observatory
    Chemin Des Maillettes 51
    CH-1290 Versoix
    Switzerland

  • Tel: +46 18 471 5970
    Fax: +46 31 772 5590
    Email: sofia.ramstedt at physics.uu.se
  • Tel: +41 22 379 2369
    Fax: +41 22 379 2205
    E-mail: Miroslava.Dessauges@unige.ch
   
  • Dr. Danny Steeghs (UK)
    Department of Physics
    University of Warwick
    Coventry CV4 7AL
    United Kingdom

 

  • Tel: +44 (0)247 657 3873
    Fax: +44 (0)247 669 2016
    Email: D.T.H.Steeghs at warwick.ac.uk

 

 

 
   
  • Prof. Sebastian Lopez Morales
    Departamento de Astronomia
    Universidad de Chile
    Casilla 36-D
    Santiago
    Chile
  • Dr. Caroline Foster
    School of Physics A28
    The University of Sydney
    NSW 2006
    Australia

  • Tel: +56 2 9771135
    Email: slopez at das.uchile.cl

  • Tel: +61 286 276 411
    Email: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au