Fellows in Germany

Giuliana Cosentino

• Research Interests: Large-scale shocks in the interstellar medium and how these can help initiate star formation in our Galaxy. In particular, shocks driven by Supernova remnants on molecular clouds as well as those arising from cloud-cloud collisions, using mm observations from radio telescopes like IRAM, APEX and ALMA.
• Current Institute: Chalmers University, Sweden
• Starting date: November 2023

Jens Kammerer

• Research Interests: Planet formation and evolution, direct imaging of substellar companions and circumstellar disks, planet and brown dwarf atmospheres, extreme angular resolution imaging using long-baseline interferometry with the VLTI and sparse aperture masking with SPHERE and JWST, exoplanet yield modeling, detection and characterization of Earth-like exoplanets with future telescopes.
  
• Current Institute: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, USA
• Starting date: September 2023

Amelia Fraser McKelvie

• Research Interests: Galaxy evolution. Galaxy stellar populations and stellar kinematics as revealed by integral field spectroscopic (IFS) surveys (MaNGA, SAMI/Hector, MUSE). The link between star formation and the growth of galaxy structure (i.e. bulges, bars, discs). The role of environment in galaxy transformation. Linking extragalactic and Galactic studies to better benchmark our Milky Way.
  
• Current Institute: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)/ University of Western Australia, Australia
• Starting date September 2023

Pooneh Nazari

• Research Interests: Organic chemistry around protostars, Planet formation, Interstellar molecules, Radiative transfer models, Submillimeter and infrared astronomy
• Current Institute: Leiden Observatory
• Starting date: October 2023

Francisco Nogueras Lara

• Research Interests: Stellar structure and population of the Milky Way’s centre, dense stellar environments, high angular resolution imaging, near infrared astronomy, extinction curve in the infrared, nuclear stellar discs and clusters, galaxy nuclei
• Current Institute: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany
• Starting date: March 2023

Miguel Vioque

• Research Interests: Star and planet formation. Stellar accretion and protoplanetary disks. Clustering and environmental properties of forming stars. Mainly working with Gaia astrometry, optical and IR spectroscopy and photometry, mm-wavelength interferometry, and high-contrast imaging and often applying machine learning techniques to Gaia data and other large-scale surveys.
• Current Institute: Joint ALMA Observatory, Chile
• Starting date: January 2024

Fellows in Chile

Elizabeth Artur de la Villarmois (ALMA)

• Research interests: Low-mass star and planet formation, Astrochemistry, Sub-millimeter Interferometry.
• Current institute: Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Starting date: May 2023

Martina Baratella (Paranal)

• Research ​​​​​​​Interests: Atmospheric parameters and abundances determination of sun-like stars; Young/active stars; Galactic open clusters; Optical high-resolution spectroscopy
  
• Current Institute: Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
• Starting date: November 2023

Julien Drevon (Paranal)

• Research Interests: Evolved stars, interferometry, image reconstruction, high angular resolution, dust formation, circumstellar envelope.
  
• Current Institute: Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur / Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
• Starting date: November 2023

Elisa Rita Garro (Paranal)

• Research Interests: formation and evolution of the Milky Way, star clusters (globular clusters and open clusters), variable stars, stellar streams, near-infrared/optical photometry and spectroscopy.
• Current Institute: Institute of Astrophysics, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
• Starting date: September 2023

Ana Jiménez (Paranal)

• Research interests: Radio galaxies and their large-scale environments, AGN feeding and feedback, and galaxy clusters.
• Current Institute: University of Bologna, Italy
• Starting date: October 2023

Francesca Lucertini (Paranal)

• Research Interests: high-resolution optical and infrared spectroscopy, chemical abundances of stars in the Milky Way and Local Group, characterization of metal-poor stars.
• Current Institute: Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
• Starting date: October 2023

Camila de Sa Freitas (Paranal) 

• Research Interests: galaxy evolution, stellar dynamics, stellar-structure formation, and morphology, using mainly archaeological data from nearby galaxies.
• Current Institute: ESO Garching, Germany
• Starting date: December 2023