Belén Alcalde (ALMA)

Research Interests: Massive high redshift galaxies in the context of galaxy formation and evolution, analysis and interpretation of large datasets and images through machine learning tools and astronomical instrumentation.

Current Institute: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Aleksandar Cikota (Paranal)

Research Interests: Progenitor systems of Type Ia Supernovae and supernova cosmology; using observations obtained with VLT/FORS2 in (spectro)polarimetry mode to investigate supernova ejecta asymmetries and dust along the sight lines to transients of all kinds.

Current Institute: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Ana Escorza (Paranal)

Research Interests: Stellar and binary evolution, the late stages of the evolution of low- and intermediate-mass stars, binary interactions and their products, barium stars and other polluted binaries and high-resolution optical spectroscopy.

Current Institutes: Institutes of Astronomy of KU Leuven and ULB, Belgium

Kevin Corneilus Harrington (ALMA)

Research interests: The build-up of stellar mass across cosmic time; galaxy evolution; radio-IR observations and modeling of the (star-forming) interstellar medium

Current Institute: Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, University of Bonn, Germany
 

Michael Abdul-Masih (Paranal)

Research Interests: Massive star evolution, close binaries, non-spherically symmetric massive stars (rapidly rotating stars, semi-detached and contact binary systems), internal mixing processes, gravitational wave progenitors, and optical and UV spectroscopy

Current Institute: KU Leuven, Belgium

Thomas Wevers (Paranal)

Research interests: The scale invariance of accretion processes from X-ray binaries to supermassive black holes; in particular, using tidal disruption events as probes to study this scale invariance, as well as accretion flow properties in SMBHs; data driven studies (detection and follow-up) of TDEs using space-based (e.g. XMM-Newton, Swift in UV and X-rays) and ground-based (e.g. time-resolved spectroscopy in the optical/NIR) telescopes; host galaxy studies of TDEs.

Current institute: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK