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From Germany to Ghana, from DESY to the CTAO, Stephan Haid has worked with scientists, technologists, and administrators worldwide in various fields to reach his current position as CTAO Director of Administration. How did he get to this position? What is he working on now? We sat down with him to find out more about his work.

On Wednesday, 5 October, the heads of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) met at the headquarters of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) in Granada, Spain to participate in the round table “The Universe that we will see.” Xavier Barcons (Director General of ESO), Philip Diamond (Director General of SKAO) and Wolfgang Wild (CTAO Project Manager) discussed the science, technology, impact and governance of these three major astronomical infrastructures, in a session moderated by Isabel Márquez (Deputy Director of the IAA-CSIC) and organized jointly between the IAA-CSIC and the CTAO.