JAO Science Team
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Elizabeth Artur de la Villarmois
ESO-ALMA FellowScientific interests: Low-mass star formation and planet formation around circumstellar disks. Astrochemistry and the study of the molecules that are present at the time of planet formation.
Tecnical interests: Radioastronomy, mm/submm observations with interferometers or single-dish.
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Yoshiharu Asaki
System AstronomerScience 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. -
Drew Brisbin
Science Archive Content ManagerScience interests: Galaxies at high redshift, star formation feedback mechanisms, AGN, metallicity in the early universe, abundance tracers, fine structure lines, dust, climate engineering.
Technical interests: Radio interferometry, submillimeter instrumentation, bolometer arrays, unfilled aperture synthesis.
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Luca Cacciapuoti
ESO-ALMA FellowScientific interests: Low-mass star formation and planet formation. Dust properties and evolution from cores to disks, and back. Accretion from ISM to protostars via infalling streamers.
Technical interests: cm/mm/submm interferometry, polarization, multi-wavelength/scale data combination, visibilities modelling
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John Carpenter
Observatory ScientistScience Interests: Circumstellar disks, debris disks, structure of molecular clouds, and star formation.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry, single-dish mm/submm astronomy, statistics
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Luciano Cerrigone
Operations AstronomerScientific 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. -
Chin-Shin Chang
Science Archive Content ManagerScience 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…) -
Juan Cortés
Program Management Group ManagerScience 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. -
Paulo Cortés
Operations AstronomerScience 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. -
Andrea Corvillón
Proposal Handling Team LeadScience interests: Stellar evolution, AGB stars, extrasolar planets.
Technical Interests: Statistics, SQL queries, python scripts. -
Harold Francke
Science Archive Content ManagerScience 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. -
José Gallardo Narbona
Science Archive Content ManagerScience 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. -
Jorge F. García Yus
Science Archive Content ManagerScience 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. -
Laura Gómez
Science Archive Content ManagerScience 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. -
Kevin Harrington
JAO FellowScience 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…) -
Akihiko Hirota
System AstronomerScience Interests: Spectroscopic observations of molecular clouds, statistical census of star formation in galactic disks, galactic dynamics
Technical interests: Single-dish and interferometric observation at mm and sub-mm wavelengths. Software development of the telescope control software.
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Seiji Kameno
System AstronomerScience Interests: Formation and fueling of active galactic nuclei, optimization of radio astronomy system such as interferometry, spectroscopy, and polarimetry.
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Ruediger Kneissl
Operations AstronomerScience 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. -
Evgenia Koumpia
System AstronomerScience Interests: Multiwavelength studies of low- and high- mass star forming environments to trace their dynamics, chemistry and evolution, close binaries, dense cores, massive stellar evolution,
Technical interests: Far (mm) and near IR interferometry, (sub)-mm mapping, optical spectroscopy. -
Cristián López
Data AnalystScience 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. -
Gabriel Marinello
Data AnalystScientific 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…) -
Sergio Martín
Head of Science OperationsScience 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.
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Hugo Messias
Operations AstronomerScience 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.
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Theodoros Nakos
Development ArchitectScience 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
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Priscilla Nowajewski
Data AnalystScience Interests: Astrobiology, Planetary Sciences, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Habitability, Exoplanet's and Solar System planet's climatology, Dust storm prediction on Mars, Atmospheric Dynamics, Climate Change, Climate at High Obliquity.
Technical interests: General Circulation Models, Weather Forecasting, Photometry, Spectroscopy IR/Radio. Programming (Python, Bash), Machine Learning.
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Andrés Pérez
Data AnalystScience Interest: Stellar Evolution. AGB, post-AGB stars, and Planetary nebulae. Molecular clouds, Star formation, and protoplanetary disks. Maser, thermal line, and continuum emission, polarization. Integral field spectroscopy.
Technical interest: Radio observations, single-dish, interferometry, calibration & self-calibration, polarization, imaging.
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Andrealuna Pizzetti
ESO-ALMA FellowScientific interests: AGN, obscured AGN, torus modeling, X-ray spectral modeling, dynamics of the circumnuclear material.
Technical interests: X-ray spectroscopy, submillimeter.
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Kurt Plarre
Data AnalystScience 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. -
Matias Radiszcz
Data AnalystScience 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…) -
David Rebolledo
Operations AstronomerScience 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. -
Tsuyoshi Sawada
System AstronomerScience Interests: Interstellar medium in the Galaxy and galaxies.
Technical interests: mm/submm. interferometry and single-dish antennas. -
Giorgio Siringo
Front-End Technical LeadScience 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 -
Yiqing Song
ESO-ALMA FellowScience Interests: Luminous Infrared Galaxies, Interacting and Merging Galaxies, Dusty obscured star formation and AGN, Starburst Galaxies.
Technical Interests: Radio/sub-mm/mm interferometry, Multi-scale data combination and imaging, VLBI imaging.
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Ignacio Toledo
Data Science and Analytics LeadScience 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.
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Celia Verdugo
Data AnalystScience 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. -
Liza Videla Altieri
Data Management Group ManagerScience 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 -
Baltasar Vila-Vilaro
System AstronomerScience 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.
