It is the persons on all levels that are at the center of IRAM’s science, technology, development, operation and administration. Over more than 40 years of existence, many astronomers and engineers have contributed to IRAM’s success, as postdocs, interns or staff astronomers. We have tried to find out what they have become after their time at IRAM.

Please find below a non-exhaustive list of former IRAM postdocs, PhD students and staff astronomers classified by date of their arrival at IRAM. In over 40 years, IRAM has welcomed more than 80 postdocs from all over the world. Approximately one third of them were part of the IRAM Granada family, the majority were part of the Grenoble headquarters team.

The list includes the current affiliations of these former IRAM colleagues, as of August 2024.

Luca Olmi; Staff astronomer, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy

Anne Dutrey; Directrice de recherche 1ère classe, CNRS – Université de Bordeaux, France

Cornelius Schalinski; Business Development Manager Germany, RHEA Group, Wavre (Belgium) and Darmstadt (Germany)

Jean François Desmurs; Astronomer, Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Madrid

Bernard Lazareff; Senior Astronomer, Université Grenoble Alpes, France (retired)

Nikolaus Neininger; Risk Controller at pbb (Bank), Garching, Germany

Wolfgang Wild; Project Manager, ESO and CTAO (retired)

Jonathan Braine; Astronomer, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France

Helmut Wiesemeyer; Staff astronomer, MPIfR Bonn, Germany

Laurent Loinard; Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico

Michael Dumke; Adjunct Researcher & APEX Support Astronomer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Emmanuel Dartois; Directeur de recherche, Université Paris Saclay, France

Sébastien Muller; Staff astronomer, Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Ute Lisenfeld; Professor, Universidad Granada, Spain

Jorge Abreu Vicente; Machine Learning developer, European Molecular Biology Organization / European Life Sciences Laboratory

Chiara Feruglio; Astronomer, INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy

Chin Shin Chang; Science Archive Content Manager, Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago, Chile

Nicolas Billot; CHEOPS Science Operations Manager, Associate scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Pierre Gratier; Assistant Astronomer, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France

Viviana Guzman; Assistant professor, Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Sabine König; Staff astronomer, Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Tessel van der Laan; Department Manager, TNO (Dutch organization for applied research; private NGO)

Israel Hermelo; Technical astronomer, Calar Alto Observatory, Almería, Spain

Miguel Montarges; Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris – PSL, Meudon, France

Charlène Lefèvre; Ingénieur algorithme, LYNRED, Veurey-Voroize, France

Charles Romero; Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA – USA

Pablo García Fuentes; Astronomer, National Astronomical Observatories of China, China and Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

Alessia Ritacco; Researcher, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Bilal Ladjelate; Data scientist, Thales, Paris, France

Ka Tat Wong; Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden

Nichol Cunningham; Operations Scientist, SKA Observatory, Macclesfield, UK

Wonju Kim; Researcher, I. Physikalisches Institut, University Cologne, Germany

Orsolya Feher; Research Associate at Cardiff University, UK

Victor De Souza Magalhães; Staff Software engineer, NRAO, Albuquerque, USA

Alessandra Contursi; System Engineer, SE-I Performance & Calibration, OHB System AG, Germany

Layal Chahine; Postdoctoral researcher, IPAG, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France

Vinodiran Arumugam; Operations Scientist, SKA Observatory, Macclesfield, UK