Introducing the 2022 ESO Fellows

Published: 06 May 2022
NAOMI at first light

The Offices for Science and the Astronomy Faculty are very pleased to present the 2022 ESO Fellows. Here is an introduction to the Fellows due to start in Germany and Chile later this year.

Fellows in Germany

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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

 

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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