Fellows in Germany

Zdeněk Prudil  

• Research Interests: Stellar pulsation and variability as a means to explore the formation history of the Milky Way, its structure, and dynamics. Application of astrostatistics on large multi-dimensional datasets composed of spectroscopic, astrometric, and photometric data products
  
• Current Institute: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany
• Starting date: December 2022
  

Marta de Simone

• Research Interests: Low-mass star formation and astrochemistry - chemical enrichment in the planet-formation regions (<50 au) - gas content and kinematics (outflows and inflows) in young protostellar objects - interferometric observations with NOEMA, ALMA, and VLA
  
• Current Institute: Université de Grenoble Alpes - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France
• Starting date: September 2022
  

Mirko Curti

• Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution: physical properties of the interstellar medium in local and high-redshift galaxies; chemical enrichment, cosmic evolution of metallicity scaling relations and metallicity gradients, and their constraints on the role on inflows/outflows; dust an gas content, and their relationship with galaxy properties; optical and near-infrared multi-object and integral-field spectroscopy (LBT, VLT, JWST); applications of machine learning techniques to astronomy
• Current Institute: Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK
• Starting date: December 2022
  

Claudia Toci

• Research Interests: Structure and evolution of protoplanetary discs, Planet formation and planet-disc interaction, Population synthesis and disc demographics, Hydrodynamical and radiative transfer simulations, Magnetohydrodynamics of molecular clouds and pre-stellar cores 
• Current Institute: Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Starting date: September 2022

Ashley Barnes

• Research Interests: Massive star formation and stellar feedback, Milky Way disc and centre (CMZ), nearby spiral galaxies, radio (mm), single dish and interferometry
  
• Current Institute: Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA) - Universität Bonn, Germany 
• Starting date: late 2022

Francesco Valentino

• Research interests: galaxy formation and evolution, interstellar medium, galaxy quenching, proto-clusters of galaxies
• Current institute: Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen), Denmark
• Starting date: December 2022
  

Fellows in Chile

Enrico Congiu

• Research interests: Interstellar medium in nearby star-forming and active galaxies, ionized nebulae, diffuse interstellar medium
• Current Institute: Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Duty station: Paranal
• Starting date: November 2022
  

Robert Klement

• Research ​​​​​​​Interests: Be Stars, Binary Stars and Multiple Stellar Systems, Interferometry
• Current Institute: The CHARA Array of Georgia State University, USA
  
• Duty station: Paranal (VLTI)
• Starting date: November 2022
  

María José Rain

• Research Interests: Stellar clusters & stellar evolution; High-resolution spectroscopy; Exotic stars; Binary systems and mass-transfer
• Current Institute: Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia
  
• Duty station: Paranal
• Starting date: October 2022
  

Yiqing Song

• Research Interests: Galaxy evolution; Luminous Infrared Galaxies; interacting and merging galaxies; dust-obscured starburst and AGN activity
• Current Institute: University of Virginia, USA
• Duty station: ALMA
• Starting date: September 2022

Jaime Vargas González

• Research interests: Star formation, radio variability and high-energy processes in protostars (nonthermal radio emission), and radio proper motions
• Current Institute: University of Hertfordshire, UK
  
• Duty station: ALMA
  
• Starting: October 2022