ESO Fellow

Manuel Aravena

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Science Interests:

Galaxy formation and evolution. Properties and characterization of external galaxies. Experience on observations of gas and dust in high-redshift galaxies as well as handling of multi-wavelength datasets.

Technical interests:

cm to mm/submm interferometry and single dish astronomy. Multi-wavelength studies.

Commissioning Scientist

Denis Barkats

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Science Interests:

Cosmology, CMB polarization, SZ effect.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry and single dish imaging, instrumental systematics, systematic effects simulation.

AIV Scientist

Paolo Calisse

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Science Interests:

CMB, site testing, polarization.

Technical interests:

Site testing instrumentation, direct detection detector, multi-FT interferometry, cryogenics.

Operations Astronomer

Juan Cortés

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Science Interests:

Interacting and merging Galaxies, lenticular and elliptical galaxies, galaxy formation, galaxy evolution along z, high-z submillimeter galaxies, galaxy stellar and gas dynamics.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, Integral Field spectroscopy, single-dish mm/submm astronomy.

AIV Scientist

Paulo Cortés

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Science Interests:

Star formation, magnetic fields, formation of molecular clouds, interacting and merging galaxies, galaxy formation, galaxy evolution, high-z submillimeter galaxies.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, single-dish mm/submm astronomy, parallel and distributed computing.

System Astronomer

Bill Dent

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Science Interests:

Protostellar disks, debris disks, planet formation, protostellar outflows, Galactic Centre, line & continuum radiative transfer models.

Technical interests:

Correlators & frontend receivers, ir & submm spectroscopy, interferometry.

Commissioning Scientist

Daniel Fulla Marsa

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Science Interests:

Solar System objects, planetary atmospheres, exoplanets, organic molecules, biomarkers.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, multiwavelength astronomy.

Science Archive Data Content Managers

Jose Gallardo Narbona

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Science Interests:

Evolutionary models of low mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. Atmospheric models of young stellar and sub-stellar objects. Intermediate and high mass star formation. Proto-stellar outflows, proto-stellar and debris disks. Binary stellar systems.

Technical interests:

Optical/infrared imaging, photometry, spectroscopy; sub-mm/mm/radio interferometry

Operations Astronomer

Diego García-Appadoo

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Science Interests:

Gas (atomic and molecular) and dust in nearby galaxies (spirals & early-type), dynamics and galaxy evolution, ISM, environmental effects in galaxies, star formation and SFR in galaxies, galaxy clusters, global properties of galaxies, low surface brightness galaxies, GRBs.

Technical interests:

cm/mm/submm. interferometry techniques and observing strategies, single dish heterodyne and continuum observations, bolometers and data reduction.

Operations Astronomer

Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo

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Science Interests:

Star formation, interstellar medium, protoplanetary disks, jets and molecular outflows, multiple young stellar systems, brown dwarfs formation, planetary system formation, astronomical masers, and evolved stars.

Technical interests:

cm/mm/submm. interferometry, cm/mm/submm single dish techniques (heterodyne and bolometer), commissioning interferometers and single dish telescopes, spectroscopy, calibration, data reduction.

Commissioning Scientist

Diah Y.A. Setia Gunawan

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Science Interests:

Massive star evolution, OB/WR type stars, multiple systems, mass loss and stellar winds, colliding winds, dust formation in massive star systems, non-thermal emission from massive stars, interaction of stellar wind with the interstellar medium.

Technical interests:

Uv/optical/infrared imaging, photometry, spectroscopy; sub-mm/mm/radio interferometry.

Operations Astronomer

Antonio Hales

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Science Interests:

Protoplanetary and debris disks, evolution of circumstellar gas and dust evolution in environments of planet formation, near-IR polarimetry, multiwavelength surveys of the Galactic plane, radio continuum of Herbig Ae/Be stars.

Technical interests:

ALMA commissioning, astrometry, ALMA antennas, solar observations, mm/submm interferometry, image synthesis.

Commissioning Scientist

Aya Higuchi

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Science Interests:

cluster formation, massive star formation, early phase of the star formation, dynamics of cluster-forming clouds

Technical interests:

mm/submm, interferometry, single dish observations, mid/far-infrared observations, imaging methods (combining, mosaicing)

Project Scientist

Richard Hills

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Science Interests:

Just about anything involving mm/submm. observations, from the solar system to the CMB, but in particular masers, high-redshift objects and early stages of star formation.

Technical interests:

Antennas, instrumentation and measurement techniques.

Commissioning Postdoc

Violette Impellizzeri

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Science Interests:

Active galactic nuclei, high resolution molecular emission/absorption from tori, water mega-maser emission, accretion disks, supermassive black-holes, high-redshift lines, gravitational lensing, galaxy evolution.

Technical interests:

cm to mm/submm interferometry, VLBI and single dish spectroscopy. Calibration techniques and high fidelity imaging.

Commissioning Scientist

Takeshi Kamazaki

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Science Interests:

Early phase of star formation, cluster star formation.

Technical interests:

Radio astronomy techniques, correlators, calibration methods (amplitude and phase), imaging methods (single-dish data combining, mosaicing, deconvolution).

Commissioning Scientist
Allegro Postdoc.

Tim van Kempen

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Science Interests:

Star formation in the nearby Milky Way, star formation theory over all masses, protoplanetary disk formation in the embedded stages, astrochemistry, the role of water, oxygen and carbon chemistry in the Milky Way.

Technical interests:

Submillimeter interferometry; high-resolution spectroscopy; zero-order spacings; high-frequency calibration; far-infrared spectroscopy; difference between heterodyne and image slicing spectroscopy.

AIV Science Team Leader

Lewis Knee

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Science Interests:

Protostars and protostellar outflows, outflow-cloud interactions and feedback, large-scale surveys of Galactic molecular clouds, large-scale Galactic HI surveys, star formation in HII regions, cometary clouds.

Technical interests:

cm. to submm. radio astronomy techniques, single-dish antennas, mosaicing, interferometry.

Operations Astronomer

Ruediger Kneissl

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Science Interests:

Observational cosmology, cosmic microwave background, clusters of galaxies, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations, radio- and sub-mm galaxies.

Technical interests:

cm-submm interferometry and single dish, bolometer arrays, imaging techniques and simulations.

Commissioning Scientist

Shinya Komugi

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System Astronomer

Stephane Leon

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Commissioning Scientist

Robert Lucas

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Science Interests:

Circumstellar envelopes, evolved stars, interstellar medium, line excitation, absorption lines, molecular clouds in galaxies.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry (calibration, software).

Operations Astronomer

Andreas Lundgren

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Science Interests:

Kinematics and physical properties of the ISM in spiral galaxies, star formation, high redshift submillimeter galaxies

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, pointing models, atmospherical data and models.

Commissioning Scientist

Gianni Marconi

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Science Interests:

Star Formation in the Local Group Galaxies; abundances, chemical and dynamical evolution of dwarf galaxies; open and globular clusters; age, evolution, tracers of Newton's Law validity; anomalous X-Ray pulsators; high resolution spectroscopy of GRBs.

Technical interests:

Optical-Far Infrared instrumentation for astronomy; high-resolution spectroscopy; adaptive optics; sparse aperture mask technique; robotic telescopes.

ESO Fellow

Sergio Martin

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Science Interests:

AGN and SB evolution, molecular emission and kinematics in galactic nuclei, Galactic Center ISM and kinematics, molecular spectroscopy, chemical composition and ISM heating in the nuclei of galaxies and the Galactic Center.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry and single-dish.

Proposal Handling Team Lead

Gautier Mathys

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Science Interests:

Stellar and solar magnetic fields, stellar pulsation, atomic spectroscopy.

Technical interests:

Optical high-resolution (échelle) spectroscopy, spectropolarimetry.

Commissioning Scientist

Rainer Mauersberger

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Science Interests:

Interstellar Medium, star formation, molecular content of galaxies, chemistry.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. single dish and interferometry.

Head of Science Operations

Lars-Ake Nyman

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Science Interests:

Evolved stars, star formation, distribution of molecular gas in the Milky Way.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. single dish and interferometry techniques.

Deputy Project Scientist

Alison B. Peck

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Science Interests:

Accretion and feeding processes in AGN, circumnuclear tori, high redshift submillimeter galaxies, physical processes in interacting galaxies.

Technical interests:

Instrument commissioning and verification, mm/submm interferometry, astrometry, VLBI.

Operations Astronomer

Mark G. Rawlings

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Science Interests:

Interstellar medium, astrochemistry, gas/dust interactions, DIBs, molecular spectroscopy, star formation, astrobiology, gravitational lensing.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, spectroscopy, combined multifrequency studies (visual/IR/sub-mm).

Commissioning Scientist

Tsuyoshi Sawada

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Science Interests:

Interstellar medium in the Galaxy and galaxies.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry and single-dish antennas.

AIV Scientist

Richard Simon

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Science Interests:

Circumstellar dust and planetary formation (modeling and observations), exoplanets, nearby stars.

Technical interests:

Interferometry, imaging and mosaicing, astrometry.

Commissioning Scientist

Kengo Tachihara

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Science Interests:

Star formation, dense cloud cores, protostars, large-scale molecular cloud survey, interstellar turbulence, T-Tauri stars.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, optical spectroscopy, single-dish mm/submm astronomy.

Head of the
Data Management Group

Baltasar Vila Vilaro

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Science Interests:

Nuclear activity in galaxies, lenticular and elliptical galaxies, molecular and atomic gas properties along the Hubble Sequence, Milky Way structure.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, calibration.

Commissioning Scientist

Eric Villard

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Science Interests:

Planetary atmospheres, exoplanets.

Technical interests:

mm/submm. interferometry, calibrators, astrometry.

ESO Fellow

Jeff Wagg

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Science Interests:

Galaxy formation, submm-to-cm wavelength observations of gas and dust in high-redshift galaxies.

Technical interests:

Experience with single dish and interferometer observations and data analysis at submm through cm-wavelengths.