ESO Council Members 2012

  • President

    Prof. Xavier Barcons
    Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
    Santander

  • Austria

Dr Daniel Weselka
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung
Vienna

Prof. Sabine Schindler
Institut für Astro-und Teilchenphysik der Leopold-Franzens Universitat
Innsbruck 

  • Belgium

Dr Sophie Pireaux
Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
Brussels  

Prof. Christoffel Waelkens
Institut voor Sterrenkunde
Leuven

  • Czech Republic

Mr Jan Burianek
Department of International Cooperation in Research & Development
Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports Prague

Prof. Jan Palous
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Prague

  • Denmark

Prof. Uffe Grae Jorgensen
University of Copenhagen
Computerial Astrophysics, Niels Bohr Institute

Mr Peter Sloth
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Copenhagen

  • Finland

Prof. Jari Kotilainen
University of Turku
Piikkio

Dr Pentti Pulkkinen
Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering
Helsinki

  • France

Dr Jean-Marie Hameury
INSU/CNRS
Paris

Mr Christophe Troyaux
MAEE/DGM/ATT/ENT
Paris          

  • Germany

Dr Thomas Roth
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Bonn

Prof. Thomas Henning
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg

  • Italy

Prof. Bruno Marano
Dipartimento di Astronomia
Università di Bologna

Dr Matteo Pardo
Italienische Botschaft, Berlin

  • The Netherlands

Dr Jan van de Donk
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Den Haag

Prof. Konrad Kuijken
Leiden Observatory
Leiden

  • Portugal 

Dr Fernando Bello
Adl SA
Lisbon

Prof. Teresa Lago
Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade
do Port

  • Spain

Dr Rafael Bachiller
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional
Madrid

Mr Luis Eduardo Ruiz
Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
Madrid

  • Sweden

Prof. Claes Fransson
The Oskar Klein Centre
Stockholm

Dr Catarina Sahlberg
Swedish Research Council
Stockholm

  • Switzerland

Prof. Georges Meylan
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Dr Martin Steinacher
Staatssekretariat für Bildung und Forschung SBF
Bern

  • United Kingdom

Prof. Patrick Roche
University of Oxford

Prof. John Womersley
The Science and Technology Facilities Council,Swindon