Christian has been the manager of the PILATUS project since 1998. He has developed the readout chip of the PILATUS detectors and was responsible for the complete system architecture.

Eric has long been involved in the development of X-ray detectors and in scientific research with X-ray diffraction. Together with Christian he worked out the PILATUS system architecture and developed the necessary software packages.

Markus has worked many years in the development of electronics and was responsible for the design and production of the readout electronics of the PILATUS systems.

Petr has worked many years as project manager in a large industrial company and later on as a business consultant. He joined the team in 2006.