Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Christophe Dumas
- Deputy Head of Sciops - Cedric Ledoux
- Management Team (Musketeers):
- Executive Assistant - Sandy Strunk
System Scientists
- Telescopes, AOF - Thomas Szeifert
- VLT Instruments - Alain Smette
- VLTI - Antoine Merand
CCB
- CCB Chair - Stephane Brillant
Group Leaders
- Training and documentation - Henri Boffin
- GenOps - Steffen Mieske
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- UT1 - Jonathan Smoker
- UT2 - Dimitri Gadotti
- UT3 - Yazan Momany
- UT4 - Emanuela Pompei
- Instrument Coordination Group Leader - Alain Smette
- Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator - Claudio Melo
- Giovanni Carraro
- Christophe Martayan
- Adaptive Optics Group Coordinator - Julien Girard
- STeam - Andres Parraguez
- Webmaster - Thomas Rivinius
- Op-IT Interface - Stephane Brillant
- Waivers
- RAF
- PSE
- La Silla Ops Contact Scientist - Ivo Saviane
- Instrument/ telescope/sub-systems commissioning - Julio Navarrete
- Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader - Andres Pino
Telescope and Instrument Operators
- Ivan Aranda
- Israel Blanchard
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Alex Correa
- Cristian Esparza
- Lorena Faundez
- Felipe Gaete
- Patricia Guajardo
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Andres Parraguez
- Diego Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Claudia Reyes
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
- Rodrigo Romero
- Sergio Vera
Astronomers
- Giacomo Beccari
- Henri Boffin
- Gabriel Brammer
- Stephane Brillant
- Giovanni Carraro
- John Carter
- Caroline Foster
- Dimitri Gadotti
- Julien Girard
- Sylvain Guieu
- Oscar Gonzalez
- Rebekka Grellmann
- George Hau
- Valentin Ivanov
- Dave Jones
- Petr Kabath
- Cedric Ledoux
- Gianluca Lombardi
- Cristophe Martayan
- Dimitri Mawet
- Claudio Melo
- Andrea Mehner
- Antoine Merand
- Steffen Mieske
- Yazan Al Momany
- Lorenzo Monaco
- Andre Mueller
- Koraljka Muzic
- Fabien Patru
- Emanuela Pompei
- Sridharan Rengaswamy
- Myriam Rodrigues
- Thomas Rivinius
- Ivo Saviane
- Ruben Sanchez
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Fernando Selman
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Stan Stefl
- Grant Tremblay
- Pierre Vernazza
- Maja Vuckovic
- Willem Jan de Wit
- Zahed Wahhaj
- Roger Wesson
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Andreas Kaufer (Director's Office)
- Sebastien Morel (VLTI System Engineering group)
- Michael Sterzik (Director's Office)
- Thomas Szeifert (Director's Office)