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    PROJECT OFFICE

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    ROLAND BACON
    SOFIA RANDICH

    Coordinator

    Deputy Coordinator

    Roland Bacon (CRAL), has ten years managerial experience as director of CRAL, but also 35 years unique experience in the design, realisation, and use of integral field spectrographs. He has been the PI of the very successful instrument MUSE at VLT.

    Sofia Randich, former director of INAF-OAA,  brings to the project her significant experience in the management of Galactic spectroscopic surveys (e.g., the Gaia-ESO large public spectroscopic survey) and in high-resolution MOS spectroscopy.

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    VINCENZO MAINIERI
    ROELOF DE JONG

    Project Scientist

    Facility Scientist

    Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO), is project scientist for the upcoming MOS at ESO (4MOST, MOSAIC, MOONS till Oct 2018). He provides to the project his long and successful experience in leading extragalactic MOS and IFS  science teams.

    Roelof de Jong (AIP), is PI of 4MOST, leading a large international team of engineers, software developers, and scientists. He is also head of the Milky Way and Local Volume section at AIP.

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    FLORA PAGANELLI
    PHILIPPE DIERICKX

    Project Manager

    Telescope WP coordinator

    Flora Paganelli is a multidisciplinary scientist with expertise in remote sensing of Earth and planetary bodies, space- and ground-based instruments development and management.

    Philippe Dierickx has a long experience as system engineer and project manager at ESO. He is an expert in the design and production of large and very large telescopes.   

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    DAVID LEET

    Instrument Wp coordinator

    David Lee (UKRI-STFC-UKATC), has extensive experience of developing instrumentation and technology for ground and space-based telescopes (MIR/JWST, MOONS/VLT, ANDES/ELT).

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    PAOLO FRANZETTI
    OLGA BELLIDO

    Operations Scientist

    System engineer

    Paolo Franzetti (INAF) has a long experience in data reduction and analysis software for MOS instruments (e.g., VIMOS, EUCLID, MOONS) and in spectroscopic surveys management (e.g., VIPERS, VANDELS)

    Olga Bellido (AIP) lead system engineer of 4MOST and subsystem system engineer of the ELT/ANDES instrument, bringing 20 years of system engineering experience for ground- and space-based instrumentation.

    PREVIOUS MEMBERS OF THE PO

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    IAN BRYSON
    JOEL VERNET

    System Architect

    Instrument WP coordinator

    Ian Bryson (UKRI-UK ATC) has over 30 years experience in astronomy instrumentation for several observatories. Working mostly as a Project Manager but with significant technical input, he has led many phase A and conceptual design (e.g., WFMOS, MOONS, EAGLE, HARMONI, VISTA).

    Joel Vernet (ESO) is currently the ELT instrument project scientist and has much valuable experience as ESO instrument scientist for many MOS and IFS instruments (e.g., MUSE, MOONS, HARMONI).

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    BIANCA GARILLI
    PIETRO SCHIPANI

    Operations scientist

    Project manager

    Bianca Garilli (INAF) had several decade of experience in the operations of multiple VLT instruments and greatly contributed to the WST project.

    Pietro Schipani, director of INAF-OAC, is very experienced in telescope design and realisation. He was the project engineer of VST and is currently the project manager of the ESO SOXS project for the NTT.

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