Dr. Anita RICHARDS

• Dates of stay: Nov 20 to Dec 19, 2023
• Institution: Manchester University, UK
• Inviting party: Sergio Martin & Itziar De Gregorio

Scientific Interests: Clusters & Superclusters of galaxies (dynamics & Metallicity), archeoastronomy at Eastern Island.

Mar CARRETERO

• Dates of stay: Nov. 20 to Nov 23, 2023
• Institution: University of Barcelona
• Inviting party: Itziar de Gregorio

Dominique PROUST

• Institution: From OBSPM, France
• Dates of stay:  Nov 7 to Dec 2, 2023
• Inviting party: Ivo Saviane

Jiri ZAK

• Institution: Science Office Garching
• Dates of stay: Nov 2 to Dec 1, 2023

Prof. Dainis DRAVINS

• Dates of stay:  Oct 9 to Dec 22, 2023
• Institution: Lund University, Sweden
• Inviting party: G. Lo Curto, E. Sedaghati & J. Seidel

Scientific Interests: Highest accuracy stellar radial velocities, hydrodynamic structure of stellar atmospheres, using CTA, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, for optical (i.e., not gamma) astronomy

Dr. Quirino D’AMATO

• Dates of stay:  9 - 12 Oct  2023
• Institution: Arcetry Observatory, Italy
• Inviting party:  Ana Maria Jimenez

Thomas PUZIA

• Dates of stay: Aug 18 2023 to June 30 2023
• Institution: P. Univ. Catolica de Chile

Joel SANCHEZ BERMUDEZ

• Dates of stay: July 12 - 29, 2023
• Institution: Instituto de Física, UNAM, Mexico
• Inviting party: Claudia Paladini

Jiri ZAK

• Dates of stay: April 28 to May 12 2023
• Institution: ESO Garching  
• Inviting party: I. De Gregorio

Dr. Julio CARBALLO

• Dates of stay: 30 March to 30 June 2023
• Institution: Universidad de Tarapaca
• Inviting party: Jesus Corral

Prof. Rene MENDEZ

• Dates of stay: Aug 18, 2022 to  Jun 30, 2023
• Institution:  DAS, Universidad de Chile, Santiago
• Inviting party: Robert De Rosa

Scientific Interests: Galactic structure, kinematics, stellar dynamics, binary and multiple stellar systems and interferometry

Amelia VIETRI

• Dates of stay: Jan 4 to  April 30, 2023
• Institution: Padova University, Italy
• Inviting party: M Berton & E Sani

Scientific Interests: Narrow-line Seyfert 1 and their optical and radio properties

Marko STALEVSKI

• Dates of stay: Jan 9 to  Feb 21, 2023
• Institution: Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Serbia
• Inviting party: Konrad Tristram

Scientific Interests: Active galactic nuclei, dust emission, radiative transfer

Pablo RODRIGUEZ GIL

• Dates of stay: Jan 9 to  Feb 3, 2023
• Institution: IAC- Uni. La Laguna, Canarias
• Inviting party: Jesus Corral

Scientific Interests: Compact binary stars, cataclysmic variables, novae, dynamical masses in compact binaries, accretion processes, time-domain astrophysics, mineralogy of planetary debris around white dwarfs.

Julia BODENSTEINER

• Dates of stay: Jan 18-29 & Feb 8-25, 2023
• Institution: Science Office Garching, ESO HQ-
• Inviting party: A. Escorza & M. Abdul-Masih

Scientific Interests: Stellar evolution & populations, observational characterization of massive stars in in binary systems, binary interaction products and classical Be stars.

Dominic BOWMAN

• Dates of stay:  Feb 15 to Feb 22, 2023
• Institution: KU Leuven, Belgium
• Inviting party: A Escorza & M Abdul-Masih

Research areas: Astereoseismology, Stellar pulsations and Stellar structure & evolution

STUDENTS

Joshua BUTTERWORTH

• Dates of stay: Oct 30 to Dec 11, 2023
• Institution: PhD student Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Leiden
• Inviting party: Sergio Martin

Research areas: Observational Astrochemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy, Molecules, Dense Gas, Molecular Line Ratios, Isotopologues.

Tanita RAMBURUTH-HURT

• Dates of stay: Oct 8, 2023 to Nov 18, 2023
• Institution: PhD student Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Geneva
• Inviting party: Cedric Ledoux (supervisor)

Research areas: Galaxy Evolution, Gas and dust in galaxies, Metal content in the ISM

Luca CREPALDI

• Dates of stay: Sep 15, 2023 to Dec 13, 2023
• Institution: MSc student from University of Padova, Italy
• Inviting party: Student of Marco Berton (supervisor)

Research areas: Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN variability, Optical Astronomy

Joanna WOKITTEL

• Dates of stay: Oct 2, 2023 to Nov 16, 2023
• Institution: MSc student from Geographical Institute, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. Affiliated as Master Student in Stellar Activity & Exoplanet Working Group at Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Germany.
• Inviting party: SCV intern student of Elyar Sedaghati (supervisor)

Research areas: Exoplanets, High-resolution transmission spectroscopy, Telluric Contamination Correction, Remote Sensing

Yuri CARRILHO DAMASCENO

• Dates of stay:  Aug 2 to Oct 31, 2023
• Institution: MSc student from Centro de Astrofisica, University of Porto, Portugal
• Inviting party: Julia Seidel (supervisor)

Research areas: Exoplanets, High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Computational Methods

Jesus Abel ROSALES GUZMAN

• Dates of stay: July 12 to Aug 23, 2023
• Institution: PhD Student from UNAM, Mexico
• Inviting party: Claudia Paladini

Gabriel VERRIER

• Dates of stay: April 10 to Aug 30 2023
• Institution: Student from ISAE-SUPAERO, France
• Inviting Party: Robert De Rosa

Laura GOMEZ FERNANDEZ

• Dates of stay: Mar 20 to Jun 15, 2023
• Institution: Student from Politechnical University of Catalonia/UPC, Spain
• Inviting party: Jesus Corral (supervisor)

Research interest: Compact objects, especially Black Holes, Supernovae, Gamma-ray & X-ray bursts, Nova & Binary systems.

Nicholas “Nick” FOO

• Dates of stay:  Mar 15 to Jun 15, 2023
• Institution: Student from University of Arizona, US
• Inviting party: Kevin Harrington (Supervisor)

Research interest: Gravitational Lensing (modeling), Galaxy Cluster Formation/Evolution, Lensed DSFG

Francisco URBINA

• Dates of stay: Mar 13 to May 15, 2023
• Institution: PhD student from Universidad de Chile
• Inviting party: Fuyan Bian (supervisor)

Research interest: Circumgalactic medium,  MUSE observations in QSO fields and protoplanetary discs using ALMA observations

Cathal MAGUIRE

• Dates of stay: Mar 8 to May 6, 2023
• Institution: PhD student from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Inviting party: Elyar Sedaghati (supervisor)

Research interest: Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Planet Formation, High-resolution spectroscopy with ESPRESSO

Julie VERMERSCH

• Dates of stay: March 1 to June 30, 2023
• Institution: PSL-Sorbonne University-OBPM, France
• Inviting party: Michael Marsset

Research areas:  Shape of small Solar System bodies, Adaptative Optics instrument data analysis (VLT/SPHERE)

Benjamin NAVARRETE

• Dates of stay:  Feb 13, 2022 to May 6, 2022
• Institution: MSc student from DAS, Universidad de Chile
• Inviting party: Belen Alcalde (supervisor)

Nicolas MONTERO

• Dates of stay:  Feb 13, 2022 to May 13, 2022
• Institution: MSc student from Astronomy Dep, Universidad de Concepcion
• Inviting party: Hugo Messias (supervisor)

Aiswarya ARUN

• Dates of stay:  Feb 1 to  Apr 30, 2023
• Institution: MSc student from DAS, Universidad de Chile
• Inviting party: Intern student of Evgenia Koumpia (supervisor)

Bert VANDER MEULEN

• Dates of stay: Jan 24 to Feb 3, 2023
• Institution:  Ghent University, Belgium
• Inviting party: Konrad Tristram

Jennifer PERALTA

• Dates of stay: 1 Feb to 28 Feb,  2023
• Institution: PUC, Chile
• Inviting party: Matias Jones

Alonso Andres GUERRERO

• Dates of collaboration: Jan 16, 2022 to Feb 28, 2023
• Institution: PhD student from IFA, Universidad de Valparaiso
• ESO Supervisor: SCV intern student of Elyar Sedaghati 

Fernanda MUNOZ Olivares

• Dates of collaboration: Jan 9, 2022 to Mar 9, 2023
• Institution: PhD student from Inst. Astrofisica, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
• ESO Supervisor: SCV intern student of Cedric Ledoux