Users Committee

UC Members 2020

The ESO Users Committee (UC) is made of representatives of the ESO users in each member state and includes also a representative from Australia and the host country Chile. It advises the ESO Director General on matters concerning the use of the ESO facilities (telescopes, instruments, operations tools, etc.) and constitutes the main link between ESO and its users community. Users from non-member states can provide their feedback through the UC chair and co-chair. The current list of UC members is given below.

  • Dr. Miguel A. Urbaneja Perez (AT)
    University of Innsbruck
    Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics
    Technikerstr. 25
    A-6020 Innsbruck
    Austria
  • Prof. Arjen van der Wel (co-Chair) (BE)
    Department of Physics and Astronomy
    Ghent University
    Krijgslaan 281
    9000 Ghent
    Belgium

  • Tel: 
    Email: Miguel.Urbaneja-Perez at uibk.ac.at

  • Tel: + 32 9 264 4518
    Email: arjen.vanderwel at ugent.be
 
  • Dr. Michaela Kraus (CZ)
    Astronomical Institute
    Czech Academy of Sciences
    Fričova 258
    CZ 251 65 Ondřejov
    Czech Republic
  • Prof. Lise Bech Christensen (Chair) (DK)
    Dark Cosmology Centre,
    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
    Juliane Maries Vej 32
    2100 Copenhagen Ø
    Denmark

  • Tel: +420 323 620 136
    Email: kraus at sunstel.asu.cas.cz

  • Tel: +45 3532 0604
    Email: lise at dark-cosmology.dk
 
  • Dr. Rubina Kotak (FI)
    Department of Physics and Astronomy
    University of Turku
    FI-20014 Turku
    Finland
  • Dr. Philippe Salomé  (FR)
    LERMA, Observatoire de Paris
    61 av. de l'Observatoire
    75014 Paris
    France

  • Tel:
    Email: rubina.kotak at utu.fi

  • Tel: + 33 1 4051 2103
    Email: philippe.salome at obspm.fr
 
  • Prof. Maria-Rosa Cioni  (DE)
    Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
    An der Sternwarte 16
    D-14482 Potsdam
    Germany
  • Dr. Rebeca García López (IE)
    Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
    31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
    D02 XF86
    Ireland

  • Tel: +49 331 7499 651
    Email: mcioni at aip.de

  • Tel: +353 1 4406656 extn 352
    Email: rgarcia at cp.dias.ie
  • Dr. Maria Teresa Beltran (IT)
    INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
    Largo Enrico Fermi 5
    I-50125 Firenze
    Italy
  • Dr. Søren Schack Larsen (NL)
    Department of Astrophysics
    Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics
    Radboud University
    P.O. Box 9010
    6500 GL Nijmegen
    The Netherlands

  • Tel: +39 055 2752 319
    Email: mbeltran at arcetri.astro.it

  • Tel: +31 24 365 2806
    Email: s.larsen at astro.ru.nl
 
  • Dr. Łukasz Wyrzykowski (PL) 
    Obserwatorium Astronomiczne UW
    Al. Ujazdowskie 4
    00-478 Warszawa
    Poland
  • Dr. Nuno Peixinho (PT) 
    CITEUC 
    Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory
    University of Coimbra
    Rua do Observatorio s/n
    3040-004 Coimbra
    Portugal

  • Tel: +48 22 553 05 07
    Email: wyrzykow at astrouw.edu.pl

  • Tel: +351 239802373
    Email: peixinho at mat.uc.pt
 
  • Dr. Nicolas Lodieu (ES)
    Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
    Calle Via Lactea s/n
    38200 La Laguna
    Spain
  • Dr. Jouni Kainulainen (SE)
    Chalmers University of Technology
    Onsala Space Observatory
    SE-439 92 Onsala
    Sweden

  • Tel: 
    Email: nlodieu at iac.es
  • Tel: +46 31 772 55 05
    Email: jouni.kainulainen at chalmers.se
   
  • Dr. Miroslava Dessauges (CH) 
    Geneva Observatory
    Chemin Des Maillettes 51
    CH-1290 Versoix
    Switzerland
  • Prof. Danny Steeghs (UK) 
    Department of Physics
    University of Warwick
    Coventry CV4 7AL
    United Kingdom

  • Tel: +41 22 379 2369
    E-mail: Miroslava.Dessauges at unige.ch
  • Tel: +44 (0)247 657 3873
    Email: D.T.H.Steeghs at warwick.ac.uk
   
  • Prof. Sebastian Lopez Morales (CL)
    Departamento de Astronomia
    Universidad de Chile
    Casilla 36-D
    Santiago
    Chile
  • Dr. Caroline Foster (AU)
    School of Physics A28
    The University of Sydney
    NSW 2006
    Australia

  • Tel: +56 2 9771135
    Email: slopez at das.uchile.cl

  • Tel: +61 286 276 411
    Email: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au