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 |