Paranal Science Operations Department Staff

Astronomers

Joe Anderson
- FORS2 2nd instrument scientist

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

Fuyan Bian
- MUSE instrument scientist, HAWK-I 2nd instrument scientist

Jesus Corral-Santana
- KMOS instrument scientist, UT12 team coordinator

Robert De Rosa
- ERIS instrument scientist

Willem Jan de Wit
- QC coordinator

Abigail Frost
- VISIR 2nd instrument scientist

Boris Haeussler
- FLAMES instrument scientist, KMOS 2nd instrument scientist

Xavier Haubois
- VLTI system scientist

Pascale Hibon
- Telescope system scientist

Aaron Labdon
- GRAVITY 2nd instrument scientist

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

Cedric Ledoux
- X-SHOOTER instrument scientist, UT3 team coordinator

Andrea Mehner
- Operations Coordinator, Deputy Department Head

Steffen Mieske
- Department head

Angel Otarola
-
Atmosphere scientist

Claudia Paladini
- MATISSE instrument Scientist, PIONIER 2nd instrument scientist, Training & Documentation coordinator

Ricardo Parra
- Telescope Performance Analysis

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

Florian Rodler
- CRIRES instrument scientist

Eleonora Sani
- Instrument Operations Team coordinator, Deputy Department Head

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

Linda Schmidtobreick
- MOONS instrument Scientist, VLTI team coordinator

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
- Operations & Procedures coordinator, VISIR instrument scientist, GRAVITY instrument scientist

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

A. Burgos
- 4MOST

Camila de Sa Freitas
- UT4, MUSE

C. Desgrange
- SPHERE

Julien Drevon
- VLTI, MATISSE

Elisa Garro
- UT12, UVES

Ana Maria Jimenez-Gallardo
-UT4, ERIS

Robert Klement
-VLTI, GRAVITY, MATISSE

Francesca Lucertini
- UT3, CRIRES 

A. Luna
- KMOS

Michael Marsset
- UT4, ERIS

T. Pessi
-
UT4

Maria Jose Rain
-UT12, FORS2, MOONS

Julia Victoria Seidel
- UT12, ESPRESSO

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