Paranal Science Operations Department Staff

Astronomers

 

Marco Berton
- Hawk-I instrument scientist, MUSE 2nd instrument scientist

Fuyan Bian
- MUSE instrument scientist, HAWK-I 2nd instrument scientist, UT4 team coordinator

Jesus Corral-Santana
- 4MOST instrument scientist, UT12 team coordinator

Robert De Rosa
- ERIS instrument scientist

Willem Jan de Wit
- QC coordinator

Abigail Frost
- VISIR instrument scientist, VLTI team coordinator

Boris Haeussler
- KMOS & FLAMES instrument scientist

Xavier Haubois
- VLTI system scientist

Pascale Hibon
- Telescope and AO scientist

Aaron Labdon
- GRAVITY instrument scientist

Matias Jones
- ESPRESSO instrument scientist, SPHERE 2nd instrument scientist

Cédric Ledoux
- X-SHOOTER instrument scientist, UT3 team coordinator, Operations & Procedures coordinator

Andrea Mehner
- Operations Coordinator, Deputy Department Head

Steffen Mieske
- Department Head

Angel Otarola
-
Atmosphere scientist

Claudia Paladini
- Training & Documentation coordinator (half-time in PSO)

Ricardo Parra
- Telescope Performance Analysis

Thomas Rivinius
- PIONIER & MATISSE instrument scientist, Phase 1/2 coordinator

Florian Rodler
- CRIRES instrument scientist

Eleonora Sani
- Deputy Department Head

Luca Sbordone
- UVES instrument Scientist, FLAMES 2nd instrument scientist, ESPRESSO QC specialist

Linda Schmidtobreick
- Instrument Operations Coordinator, MOONS instrument Scientist, 

Elyar Sedaghati
- FORS2 instrument scientist and ESPRESSO 2nd instrument scientist

Jonathan Smoker
- CRIRES and MOONS 2nd instrument scientist

Thomas Szeifert 
- 4MOST instrument scientist

Konrad Tristram
- Project scientist for Integrated Planning

Zahed Wahhaj
- SPHERE instrument scientist, ERIS second instrument scientist

 

 

 

Quality Control


Javier Fuentes Lettura                                                                                      
- Data and Quality Control Specialist

Faviola Molina
- Data and Quality Control Specialist

 

Fellows

Martina Baratella
- UT12, ESPRESSO, 4MOST

Enrico Congiu
- UT4, MUSE

Akke Corporaal
- VLTI

Abel Burgos
- UT12, 4MOST

Camila de Sa Freitas
- UT4, MUSE

Célia Desgrange
- UT3, SPHERE

Julien Drevon
- VLTI, MATISSE

Elisa Garro
- UT12, UVES, X-SHOOTER

Ana Maria Jimenez-Gallardo
- UT4, ERIS

Robert Klement
- VLTI, GRAVITY, MATISSE

Francesca Lucertini
- UT3, CRIRES 

Alonso Luna
- UT12, KMOS

Michael Marsset
- UT4, ERIS

Hannah Osborne
- UT12

Thallis Pessi
- UT4

Maria Jose Rain
- UT12, FORS2, MOONS

Rob Van Holstein
- UT3, SPHERE

Telescope and Instrument Operators

Israel Blanchard
Functional Assignments:
- UT1, UT4, VLTI

Cecilia Bustos
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2

Francisco Caceres
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, UT3, Surveys

Susana Cerda
Functional Assignments:
- UT4, Surveys, VLTI, OS

Claudia Cid
Functional Assignments:
- UT4, UT1-2, VLTI, OS

Alex Correa
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, Surveys, VLTI, OSQC1

Marcela Espinoza
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, Surveys

Lorena Faundez
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, VLTI, OS

Felipe Gaete
Functional Assignments:
- UT1 UT3, Surveys

Sam Kim
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2

Carlos La Fuente
Functional Assignments:
- UT4, Surveys, VLTI, OS

Marcelo Lopez
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, UT4, VLTI

Miguel Lopez
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2 

Vincent Megevand
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2,VLTI

Juan Carlos Olivares
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, UT4

Rodrigo Palominos
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, VLTI

Diego Parraguez
Functional Assignments:
- UT1, UT3, UT4, Surveys

Andres Pino
Functional Assignments:
- VLTI, OS

Leonel Rivas
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, VLTI, OS

Cristian Romero
Functional Assignments:
- UT3, UT4, Surveys, OS, OmegaCam 2nd Instrument scientist

Rodrigo Romero
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, UT4, Surveys

Jose Velasquez
Functional Assignments:
- UT1-2, VLTI, Surveys