Summer Students Chile 2023

The Maintenance, Support and Engineering department (MSE):provides technical support to the four VLT 8-m telescopes, to the VLT Interferometer with its auxiliary telescopes and to all instruments available for scientific observations. The MSE Department of Paranal has a total workforce of 80 engineers and technicians distributed in 6 engineering groups. References for MSE Dpt.The Science Operations department (PSO):In the last years, major new systems have complemented our suite of instruments. Thisincludes the VLTI 2nd generation instruments Gravity & Matisse, the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) on UT4 and the planet hunter ESPRESSO. ERIS and the MOS facilities MOONS & 4MOST are upcoming future systems at the VLT.For the summer period 2023, ESO is offering five projects for the Maintenance and Engineering Department, and three projects for the Science Operations Department. These are the following:Projects for the MSE Department:I. Software/Instrumentation Project:"Web