ESO-ALMA Fellow
asantama@eso.orgScience Interest: Star formation at the low mass end: brown dwarfs and very low mass stars from pre-stellar core to Class II sources. Jets and molecular outflows. Accretion in protoplanetary disks.
Technical Interest: Sub-mm interferometry, optical and infrared spectroscopy.
ESO-ALMA Fellow
alvaro.ribas@eso.orgScientific interests: protoplanetary disks evolution, dust grain growth, planet formation, debris disks, exoplanets.
Technical interests: (sub)mm interferometry, multi-wavelength observations, statistics, machine learning, Python.
Proposal Management Team Specialist
Andrea.Corvillon@alma.clScience interests: Stellar evolution, AGB stars, extrasolar planets.
Technical Interests: Statistics, SQL queries, python scripts.
Operations Astronomer
ahales@alma.clScience 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.
System Astronomer
bvilavil@alma.clScience 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.
ESO-ALMA Fellow
Belen.Alcalde@eso.orgScience Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution across cosmic time, massive high-redshift galaxies, stellar properties, molecular gas, and dust.
Technical Interests: Multiwavelength observations, (sub)-mm single-dish and interferometry observations, machine and deep learning techniques.
System Astronomer
wdent@alma.clScience 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.
Data Analyst
cverdugo@alma.clScience Interests: Star formation at low metallicity, molecular gas, molecular clouds and clumps.
Technical interests: mm/submm astronomy. Single dish and interferometry observations, data reduction and analysis. Bolometers and heterodyne receivers.
NAOJ Fellow
chat.hull@nao.ac.jpScience interests: Star formation, polarization, magnetic fields, protoplanetary disks, synthetic observations of MHD simulations.
Technical interests: cm/mm/submm interferometry, radio instrumentation, polarization calibration, high-dynamic-range imaging.
ESO-ALMA Fellow
cyang@eso.orgScience Interests: star formation, galaxy formation and evolution, dusty star-forming galaxies at high-redshift, molecular gas and dust.
Technical interests: cm/mm/submm single-dish and interferometry observations, imaging and spectroscopy, calibration.
Science Archive Content Manager
cschang@alma.clScience Interests: Galaxies and supermassive black holes, jets and outflows. Active Galactic Nuclei studies using Very Long Baseline Interferometry, in particular the VLBI kinematics and the multi-wavelength studies (radio/optical/X-ray/gamma-ray) on AGN inner-jet. M87 jet dynamics.
Technical interests: VLBI wide-fied (more…)
Data Analyst
clopez@alma.clScience Interests: Star Formation, Giant Molecular Clouds, and gas and dust in the ISM.
Technical interests: Continuum and Spectral observations in mm/sub-mm single dish and interferometric telescopes. Verification and optimisation of single dish and interferometric arrays.
JAO Fellow
david.rebolledo@alma.clScience Interests: Different phases of the interstellar medium and the process of star formation at different size scales in nearby galaxies and the Milky Way.
Technical interests: Radio astronomy, interferometry at cm/mm wavelengths, and techniques to combine single dish images with interferometric data.
Senior Astronomer
efomalon@alma.clScience Interests: Astrometry, tests of General Relativity, VLBI especially from space, evolution of binary stellar systems, evolution of AGN and star-forming galaxies and cosmology.
Technical interests: Interferometric analysis and software, high dynamic range imaging, micro-arcsecond astrometric precision, polarization interferometry.
Head of the Department of Science Operations
Elizabeth.Humphreys@alma.clDr. Liz Humphreys joined the ALMA project in September 2009 as an astronomer in the European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC).
She was appointed Deputy Head of the ARC Department in 2016. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Bristol, UK, and performed postdocs at Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, before joining the European Southern Observatory (ESO) (more…)
JAO Fellow
enrique.macias@alma.clScience Interests: Star formation, structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks, protoplanetary disk dispersal, radio jets, dust grain growth and evolution, planet formation.
Technical interests: Radio astronomy, submm/mm/cm interferometry, imaging, statistics.
Deputy of Data Management Group
evillard@alma.clScience Interests: Planetary atmospheres, exoplanets.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry, calibrators, astrometry.
Data Analyst
Scientific Interests: Observational cosmology, large-scale structure of the Universe, galaxy clusters, galaxy evolution in clusters, cosmic microwave background, Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect observations, quasars.
Technical Interest: Mm/submm interferometry, single-dish mm/submm astronomy, optical imaging and spectroscopy, (more…)
Front-End Technical Lead
gsiringo@alma.clScience Interests: magnetic field and star formation, galactic magnetic field, AGN variability, anisotropies and polarization of the Cosmic Background Radiation
Technical interests: mm/submm detectors, single-dish, interferometry and polarization, imaging, data reduction
Science Archive Content Manager
hfrancke@alma.clScience Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, especially at high redshift, and its relation to active galactic nuclei. Cosmology and large scale structure.
Technical interests: Optical and NIR imaging and spectroscopy data processing. Radio, mm and sub-mm interferometry and aperture synthesis. Multiwavelength datasets analysis.
DSO Astronomer
hugo.messias@alma.clScience Interests: Galaxy and super-massive black-hole co-evolution; gas content and dynamics; galaxy growth mechanisms; IR-selected AGN; distant sub-millimeter/radio-selected galaxies.
Technical Interests: IR to radio; interferometry; VLBI observations with phased ALMA; data calibration; statistics.
Data Analyst
itoledo@alma.clScience Interests: Diffuse light and evolution in galaxy clusters. Bulge and Galactic plane studies in near-infrared. Extrasolar planetary transits.
Technical interests: mm/submm interferometry and aperture synthesis. Optical and near-infrared data reduction techniques. Virtual Observatory publishing and data mining.
JAO Fellow
james.miley@alma.clScience interests: Structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks, debris disks, star and planet formation, intermediate mass stars
Technical Interests: Radio/sub-mm/mm interferometry and imaging, radiative transfer modelling
Observatory Scientist
jcarpent@alma.clScience Interests: Circumstellar disks, debris disks, structure of molecular clouds, and star formation.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry, single-dish mm/submm astronomy, statistics
Science Archive Content Manager
jgarcia@alma.clScience Interests: Galactic structure, star formation, solar system and exoplanets.
Technical interests: Optical/IR/MIR imaging and photometry. Multi wavelength surveys, catalog and databases. Ground telescope observations. Ultimately VO interoperability.
Science Archive Content Manager
jagallar@alma.clScience 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.
Data Analyst
jose.fernandez@alma.clScience Interests: Star formation, proto-planetary disks, binary stellar systems, extrasolar planets.
Technical interests: Optical/Infrared imaging, photometry, spectroscopy; sub-mm/mm/radio interferometry
Operations Astronomer
jcortes@alma.clScience 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.
ESO-ALMA Fellow
Kevin.Harrington@eso.orgScience interests: Understanding the build-up of stellar mass across cosmic time; Cold neutral (molecular/atomic) and ionized interstellar medium of high-redshift (z >1) galaxies; Strongly lensed, high-redshift galaxies; Progenitor galaxy cluster environments in the early Universe; Disentangling the physical processes of galaxies with co-evolving AGN and star-formation activity
Technical Interests: Radio / (sub)mm / IR spectroscopy and (more…)
Data Analyst
kplarre@alma.clScience Interests: Bayesian methods, inverse problems in Astronomy
Technical interests: mm/sub-mm astronomy. Antenna/array verification, maintenance and calibration. Data manipulation and visualization. Data reduction. Web development.
Science Archive Content Manager
lgomez@alma.clScience Interests: Star formation at early evolutionary stages, fragmentation and structure of molecular clouds, proper motions of radio sources.
Technical interests: cm/mm/submm interferometry, cm/mm/submm single dish techniques (bolometer and heterodyne), mosaicking with interferometer, combining interferometry and single dish data.
Science Archive Content Manager
lvidela@alma.clScience Interests: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Seyfert galaxies, central engine of AGN, massive black holes at galactic centers, Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs), starburst galaxies, galaxy evolution.
Technical interests: Data reduction, astronomical databases, Virtual Observatory, interferometric techniques, imaging and spectroscopy in infrared and radio
Science archive content manager
luciano.cerrigone@alma.clScientific interests: circumstellar envelopes in intermediate- and high-mass stars, AGB and post-AGB stars, molecular outflows, radio continuum properties of Planetary nebulae, LBV nebulae.
Technical interests: ground- and space-based mid-IR imaging and spectrometry, interferometry from the cm to the sub-mm range, single-dish techniques.
ESO-ALMA Fellow
marie-lou.gendron-marsolais@eso.orgScience interests: Multi-wavelength studies of groups and clusters of galaxies, AGN feedback, brightest cluster/group galaxies.
Technical interests: high-dynamical-range low radio frequency imaging, X-ray data reduction and analysis, optical imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy.
Data Analyst
mradiszc@alma.clScience Interests: Dusty disc in white dwarfs, interacting binaries, and evolverd stars. Brown dwarfs, exoplanets, planetary system formation/evolution, and protoplanetary disks. Stellar populations in the Milky Way, and Milky Way structure. Astrometry.
Technical interests: Sub mm/radio interferometry, and single dish data reduction and (more…)
JAO Fellow
Miguel.Vioque@alma.clScience interests: Star formation, Herbig Ae/Be stars, T Tauri stars, pre-main sequence accretion, open clusters and Galactic structure, protoplanetary and debris disks, planet formation, variable stars, emission-line stars, Be stars.
Technical interests: UV to mid-IR observations, astrometry, Gaia, machine learning, statistics, big data and large-scale surveys, mm/sub-mm interferometry, optical and infrared spectroscopy.
Operations Astronomer
pcortes@alma.clScience 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.
JAO Fellow
Pei-Ying.Hsieh@alma.clScience Interests: molecular gas accretion and star formation near the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center (the circumnuclear disk/ring), structure and evolution of molecular gas inflow and outflow in galaxies, magnetic fields in galaxies.
Technical interests: mm/submm interferometry and aperture synthesis, single-dish observations, wide-field interferometric and single-dish imaging, mm/submm polarization, and (more…)
Operations Astronomer
rkneissl@alma.clScience 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.
Science Operations Astronomer
stakahas@alma.clScience Interests: Star formation at early evolutionary stages, fragmentation properties of filamentary molecular clouds.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry, wide-field interferometric imaging.
System Astronomer
skameno@alma.clScience Interests: Formation and fueling of active galactic nuclei, optimization of radio astronomy system such as interferometry, spectroscopy, and polarimetry.
Science Operations Astronomer
sergio.martin@alma.clScience Interests: Astrochemistry and molecular spectroscopy. Evolution of active galaxies. Starburst, AGN and ULIRG environments. Galactic Center.
Technical interests: mm and submm single dish and interferometric observations and calibration.
System Astronomer
sleon@alma.clScience Interests: Effects of the environment on stellar systems, globular clusters, dynamics of the molecular gas in galaxies, ISM content of radio galaxies, barred and isolated galaxies.
Technical interests: mm/submm, interferometry and single dish, wide field telescopes, numerical simulations.
Deputy Director
scorder@alma.clScience Interests: Debris disks, proto-stellar disks, proto-stellar environments, high-mass star formation, dynamics and feedback in nearby star-forming clouds.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry, high fidelity imaging, mosaicking with interferometers (more…)
Data Management Group Manager
theodoros.nakos@alma.clScience Interests: Photometry and astrometry of binary stars, multi-wavelength detection of quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), gravitational lensing.
Technical Interests: Photometry (optical, near and mid-infrared), astrometry, calibrations, space and ground-based instrumentation
System Astronomer
tsawada@alma.clScience Interests: Interstellar medium in the Galaxy and galaxies.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry and single-dish antennas.
NAOJ Associate Professor
yasaki@alma.clScience Interests: Dynamics of gas motions around evolved stars and of massive star forming regions by observing astrophysical masers. Precise astrometry using radio interferometry with an accuracy of milli arcseconds.
Technical interests: Calibration techniques for correcting interferometer observable errors especially due to the Earth atmosphere and interferometer instruments.