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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Bianca Garilli, former director of IASF INAF laboratory, has played a leading role in data reduction and analysis software for MOS instruments (e.g., VIMOS, KMOS,MOONS).
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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