Team Members

METIS

METIS team members as observed at their preferred wavelength

Olivier Absil

HCI lead, U Liège

Tibor Agocs

optics lead, NOVA

Antonio Amorim

Warm Support Structure, U Lisbon

Jean-Christophe Barriere

Local Project Manager, CEA Saclay

Thomas Bertram

AO lead, MPIA

Felix Bettonvil

Consortium project manager, NOVA

Peter Bizenberger

System Lead imagers, MPIA Heidelberg

Roy van Boekel

Instrument scientist, MPIA

Andre Bone

Warm Support Structure, Centra

Bernhard Brandl

PI, Uni Leiden (NOVA)

Leo Burtscher

Calibration scientist, Uni Leiden (NOVA)

Faustine Cantalloube

AO specialist, MPIA Heidelberg

Conchi Cardenas

Optical design imager, MPIA Heidelberg

Oliver Czoske

Pipeline, U Vienna (A*)

Mercedes Filho

Warm Support Structure, Centra

Emeric Le Floc’h

Science, CEA Saclay

Paulo Garcia

CoI, centra Lisbon

Alistair Glasse

CoI, UKATC

Adrian Glauser

Consortium system engineer, ETH Zürich

Paulo Gordo

Warm support structure, centra Lisbon

Stefan Hippler

Adaptive Optics, MPIA

Armin Huber

Mechanical Design (MPIA)

Derek Ives

Detector specialist, ESO

Gerd Jakob

Thermal design, ESO

Ulli Käufl

Calibration specialist, ESO

Wolfgang Kausch

Pipeline, U Innsbruck

Matt Kenworthy

Deputy high contrast imaging lead, Uni Leiden

Martin Kulas

Software, MPIA

Peter Kunst

Interfaces, NOVA

Lucas Labadie

Co-I Cologne, U Cologne

Dirk Lesman

Mechanical Lead, NOVA

Jeff Lynn

Systems Engineering manager, NOVA

Wim de Meester

Instrument Control Software, U Leuven

Kora Muzic

Operations, centra Lisbon

Rene Oudmaijer

Science, U Leeds

Gilles Orban de Xivry

High Contrast Imaging, U Liège

Eric Pantin

Co-I, CEA Saclay

Phil Parr-Burman

Local Project Manager LMS, UKATC

Prashant Pathak

High Contrast Imaging, ESO

Sascha Quanz

Project scientist, ETH Zürich

Gert Raskin

Instrument control software, Leuven

Steffen Rost

WCU, U Cologne

Nadeen Sabha

Pipeline, U Innsbruck (A*)

Chad Salo

Deputy System Engineer, Uni Leiden (NOVA)

Silvia Scheithauer

Local project manager, MPIA

Ralf Siebenmorgen

Project scientist, ESO

Remko Stuik

SLAO/AIT lead, NOVA

Stephen Todd

LMS optical design, UKATC

Bart Vandenbussche

Local project manager, U Leuven

Shiang-Yu Wang

Local Project Manager ASIAA Taiwan

Hans van Winckel

CoI, U Leuven

Werner Zeilinger

Pipeline lead, U Vienna

Further team members

  • Werner Laun (thermal design, MPIA)
  • Salima Mouzali (detector engineer, CEA Saclay)
  • Monika Rutowska (WCU, U Cologne)

Images were taken in the thermal infrared with contours derived from an optical image.

Former team members

  • Jeff Meisner (NOVA)
  • Evert Pauwels (NOVA)
  • Nicola Baccichet (U Cologne)
  • Roland Eichhorn (ETH Zürich)
  • Norma Hurtado (NOVA)
  • Rainer Lenzen (MPIA)
  • Michael Mach (U Vienna)
  • Stephen March (ETH Zürich)
  • Philippe Galdemard (CEA Saclay)
  • Gabby Kroes (NOVA)