Henri M.J. Boffin

Henri M.J. Boffin is an ESO astronomer who obtained his PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 1993. He has experience in journalism and initially joined ESO in 2003 as Astronomer and Press Officer, dealing with communication about all telescopes and projects of ESO. Later, from August 2010 until April 2016, he was an ESO Paranal Operations Staff Astronomer and the FORS2 and HARPS instrument scientist, and was in charge of the training. Henri is now working in the User Support Department, where he supports the instruments SPHERE, FORS2, MUSE, and KMOS, and is the project scientist of the upgrades of FORS and of the ESO Exposure Time Calculator.