Fellows in Germany

Teresa Valdivia

• Research Interests: role of the environment in star and planet formation, in particular traced by asymmetric infalling gas structures onto protostellar and protoplanetary disks. Embedded protostars, astrochemistry, and submillimeter interferometry.
  
• Current Institute: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
  
• Starting date: September 2024

Geza Csornyei

• Research Interests: Distance measurements and the estimation of the Hubble constant in the near-Universe, in particular, through the use of Type II supernovae. Direct high-precision comparisons between the estimates of various techniques to uncover the source of inconsistencies. The physics of various distance indicators, mainly Cepheids and Type II supernovae.
  
• Current Institute: Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
  
• Starting date: September 2024

Lukas Neumann

• Research Interests: Star formation, molecular clouds and the interstellar medium revealed by ALMA, MUSE and JWST. Understanding how star formation is regulated across the universe, linking the Milky Way to other galaxies
  
• Current Institute: Argelander Institute for Astronomy, Bonn University, Germany
  
• Starting date: November 2024

Elena Redaelli

• Research Interests: astrochemistry in low- and high-mass star-forming regions in the Galaxy. In particular, millimeter and sub-millimeter observations of molecular emission with single-dish facilities (IRAM 30m, APEX, GBT) and interferometers (ALMA, NOEMA). Chemical modelling and radiative transfer.
  
• Current Institute: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
  
• Starting date: September 2024

Martyna Chruslinska

• Research Interests: gravitational wave astrophysics, chemical evolution of galaxies/Universe, evolution of massive stars and binaries, stellar-origin transients
  
• Current Institute: Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
  
• Starting date: November 2024

Fellows in Chile

Andrealuna Pizzetti

• Research interests: X-ray spectroscopy of obscured AGN, torus geometry and variability, Seyfert galaxies
  
• Current institute: Clemson University, USA
  
• Starting date: September 2024

Luca Cacciapuoti

• Research ​​​​​​​Interests: Early phases of star and planet formation. Dust properties from dense cores to protoplanetary disks. Circumstellar envelopes and streamers. Radiointerferometry.
  
• Current Institute: European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
  
• Starting date: November 2024

Thallis Pessi

• Research Interests: transient events, in particular core-collapse supernovae and their progenitor stars. Large datasets of these events, to study their host galaxies, local environment properties, and estimated occurrence rates. Large transient dedicated surveys, such as ASAS-SN, AMUSING, and ePESSTO+.
  
• Current Institute: Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
  
• Starting date: August 2024

Akke Corporaal

• Research Interests: formation of planetary systems, circumstellar disc physics, low- and intermediate-mass evolved binary stars, infrared interferometric techniques, radiative transfer modelling, image reconstruction.
  
• Current Institute: Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium
  
• Starting date: May 2024

Abel de Burgos Sierra

• Research interests: : Evolution and nature of massive stars in the Milky Way. Stellar spectroscopy: atmospheric parameters, surface abundances, binary detection, surveys. Young open clusters and associations: age, membership and kinematics. Working with optical high-resolution spectroscopy, Gaia astrometry and TESS photometry
  
• Current Institute: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
  
• Starting date: November 2024

Celia Desgrange

• Research Interests: Planet formation and evolution. Architecture of planetary systems. Direct imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks. High angular resolution and contrast imaging in the near-infrared.
  
• Current Institute: : Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble, France and Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
  
• Starting date: November 2024

Alonso Luna Ruiz Fernandez

• Research Interests: Galactic archaeology. Stellar kinematics in the Galactic bulge and the Local Group galaxies with data from large surveys and observations in the optical and NIR. Globular clusters, their variable stars and multiple stellar populations.
  
• Current Institute: Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
  
• Starting date: December 2024

Alex Hygate

• Research Interests: observations of galaxies, galaxy evolution, molecular gas and the interstellar medium, the Epoch of Reionisation, galaxy environments and mm/sub-mm interferometry.
  
• Current Institute: Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands
  
• Starting date: TBD