Student Visitors in 2012

  • Gustavo AGUAYO
    • Dates of stay: October 1, 2011 - February 10, 2012
    • Institution: Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
    • ESO inviting party: C. Martayan
    • Working on: Emission-line stars in LMC open clusters
  • Paul BOLEY
    • Dates of stay: April 4 - May 10, 2012
    • Institution: Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
    • ESO Inviting party: W.-J. De Wit
  • Joanna BULGER
    • Dates of stay: July 3 - September 30, 2012
    • Institution: Exeter University, United Kingdom
    • Scientific interests: Disks properties around low mass stars & brown dwarfs in Taurus; Disks properties around Class I binaries in Taurus; Submm imaging of Debris disks in the Solar neighbourhood
    • Supervisor: Bill Dent
  • Gráinne COSTIGAN
    • Dates of stay: April 10 - April 30, 2012
    • Institution: ESO Garching
    • Scientific Interests: Accretion Variability in YSO, Stellar Winds and Jets, Formation of flow mass stars and brown dwarfs, Circumstellar disks
    • ESO Inviting party: M. West, L. Testi
  • Valentin CHRISTIAENS
    •  Dates of stay: January 30 - April 30, 2012
    •  Institution: University of Liege, Belgium
    •  Supervisor: D. Mawet
  • Francisco GALINDO
    • Dates of stay: July 1 - August 31, 2012
    • Institution: Centro de Astrobiologia/CAB, INTA-CSCI, ESA, Spain
    • Scientific interests: Open Clusters; Methods for determine the age of open clusters; Low-Mass stars and brown dwarfs
    • Supervisors: W.-J. de Wit, A. Bayo
  • Colin HILL
    • Dates of stay: July 9 - August 9, 2012
    • Institution: Queen's University Belfast, UK
    • Working on: Analysis of CRIRES slit viewer images
    • Supervisor: J. Smoker
  • Michel HILLEN
    • Dates of stay: August 6 - 31, 2012
    • Institution: Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
    • Working on: Post-AGB binaries; Symbiotic binaries; AGB Stars (Mira’s)
    • Supervisor: H. Boffin
  • Matias JONES
    • Dates of stay: November 1, 2012 - January 31, 2013
    • Institution: Universidad de Chile
  • Robert KLEMENT
    • Dates of stay: January 24 - April 21, 2012
    • Institution: Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
    • Supervisor: Stan Stefl (DGDF)
  • Michael KENNEDY
    • Dates of stay: July 9 - September 9, 2012
    • Institution: Queen's University Belfast, UK
    • Working on: UVES observations of tiny-scale structure of interstellar medium
    • Supervisor: J. Smoker
  • Loredana LOVISI
    • Dates of stay: April 27 - June 25, 2012
    • Institution:Universita di Bologna, Italy
    • ESO Inviting party: L. Monaco
  • Guillermo MANJARREZ
    • Dates of stay: October 1 - 19, 2012
    • Institution: ESO, Chile
    • ESO Inviting party: M. West
  • Manuel MERELLO
    • Dates of stay: September 6, 2011 - August 15, 2012
    • Institution: Texas University at Austin, USA
    • ESO Inviting party: M. West, N. Evans
  • Jan ORKISZ
    • Dates of stay: March 1st - August 20, 2012
    • Institution: Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, France
    • Supervisor: J.-P. Berger
  • Francisco RICHTER
    • Dates of stay: June 1 - November 30, 2012
    • Institution: Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
    • Working on: Designing a method for determination of photometric flats for imaging instruments in the visible NIR bands; Reduction of existing imaging data of WFI (or VST) and HAWKI of clusters in the LMC
    • Supervisor: F. Selman
  • Demerese SALTER
    • Dates of stay: April 19 - May 24, 2012
    • Institution: University of Maryland, USA and P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
    • ESO Inviting party: N. Evans
  • Joao-Victor SILVA
    • Dates of stay: October 30 - November 16, 2012
    • Institution: Observatorio Nacional, Rio do Janeiro, Brazil
    • ESO inviting party: G. Carraro
  • Martha TABOR
    • Dates of stay: May 28 - August 31, 2012
    • Institution: Saint Andrew's University, Scotland
    • ESO Inviting party: H. Boffin, D. Jones
  • Joachim VANDERBEKE
    • Dates of stay: October 1 - December 31, 2012
    • Institution: University of Ghent
  • Stefano ZARATTINI
    • Dates of stay: October 30 - November 30, 2012
    • Institution: IAC, Spain
    • Working on: Fossil group of galaxies; Clusters of galaxies
    • ESO Inviting party: R. Sanchez-Janssen