Senior Visitors in 2018

  • Rebeca ALADRO
            Dates of stay: April 11 - May 10, 2018
            Institution: MPIfR-Bonn, Germany
            Scientific interests: Molecular line identification of the ACA delivered data from ALCHEMI, Astrochemistry, Submillimeter Astronomy
            ESO inviting party: S. Martin
  • Michael ALBROW
    • Dates of stay: December 5, 2017 - January 22, 2018
    • Institution: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
    • Scientific interests: Astronomical data analysis and instrumentation; Globular clusters; Gravitational lensing; Microlensing; Searching for extra-solar planets; Transits
    • ESO inviting party: G. Mathys
  • Daniel ASMUS
    • Dates of stay: March 12-23, 2018
    • Institution: ESO, Europe
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Stephane BLONDIN
    • Dates of stay: February 1 - June 30, 2018
    • Institution: CNRS-Unidad Mixta Internacional Franco-Chilena de Astronomía & PUC
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Márcio CATELAN
    • Dates of stay: March 6 - July 31, 2018
    • Institution: IA-CATA, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
    • Scientific interests: Stellar evolution; Globular clusters; Variable stars
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • David CATLING
    • Dates of stay: February 21 - March 1, 2018
    • Institution: University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    • ESO inviting party: J. Melnick & C. Melo
  • Arlette CHACON
    • Dates of stay: June 4 - September 28, 2018
    • Institution: University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada & Universidad de Valparaiso
    • Working on: Astrometeorology; Feasibility and accuracy of nowcasts to support operations in Paranal
    • ESO inviting party: C. Martayan, S. Brillant & J. Milli (SciOps)
  • Chiara CIRCOSTA
    • Dates of stay: January 30 - February 18, 2018
    • Institution: ESO, Garching
    • ESO inviting party: D. Kakkad
  • Stefano CRISTIANI
    • Dates of stay: December 7 - 24, 2018
    • Institution: INAF-OA Trieste, Italy
    • ESO inviting party: G. Lo Curto
  • Luc DESSART
    • Dates of stay: February 1 - June 30, 2018
    • Institution: OCA-Unidad Mixta Internacional Franco-Chilena de Astronomía & DAS UChile
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Sonia DUFFAU
    • Dates of stay: October 23, 2017 - May 31, 2018
    • Institution: Universidad Nacional Andres Bello, Chile
    • ESO inviting party: L. Sbordone
  • Eric EMSELLEM
    • Dates of stay: November 6-9, 2018
    • Institution: ESO Garching Science Office
    • ESO inviting party: I. De Gregorio
  • Xiaohui FAN
    • Dates of stay: April 17 - 20, 2018
    • Institution: University of Arizona, US
    • ESO inviting party: F. Bian
  • Manuel FERNANDEZ LOPEZ
    • Dates of stay: August 27 - September 7, 2018
    • Institution: IAR, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
    • ESO inviting party: A. Plunkett
  • Lluis GALBANY
    • Dates of stay: November 12-17, 2018
    • Institution: Pittsburgh University, USA
    • Scientific interests: Supernovae; Cosmology; Galaxies with IFU
    • ESO inviting party: J. Anderson
  • Antonio GARUFI
    • Dates of stay: April 30 - May 6, 2018
    • Institution: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    • ESO inviting party: B. Dent
  • Isabelle GAVIGNAUD
    • Dates of stay: November 26 - 30, 2018
    • Institution: Universidad Andres Bello
    • ESO inviting party: E. Sani
  • Oscar GONZALEZ
    • Dates of stay: March 7 - May 7, 2018
    • Institution: UK ATC & STFC
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo, B. Dias
  • Santiago GONZALEZ GAITAN
    • Dates of stay: October 23 - November 3, 2018
    • Institution: CENTRA-IST, Lisbon University, Portugal
    • Scientific interests: Supernovae; Extinction; Polarization
    • ESO inviting party: J. Anderson
  • Lucia GUAITA
    • Dates of stay: April 23 - June 1, 2018
    • Institution: Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma-INAF, Italy
    • Scientific Interests: Star-forming galaxies at high redshift: especially the Lyman alpha emission and the phenomena allowing the escape of Lyman alpha photons out of the galaxy; Effect of environment in star-forming galaxies and in particular in Lyman alpha emitters (ongoing project with E. Pompei); Detection of [CII]158 micron from z~7 star-forming galaxies with ALMA: redshift confirmation and star-formation rate estimation
    • ESO inviting party: E. Pompei
  • Claudia GUTIERREZ
    • Dates of stay: November 12-23, 2018
    • Institution: Southampton University, UK
    • Scientific interests: Supernovae; Peculiar transients; Supernova Progenitors
    • ESO inviting party: J. Anderson
  • Reinhard HANUSCHIK
    • Dates of stay: August 6 - 17, 2018
    • Institution: DOO, ESO HQ Garching
    • ESO inviting party: T. Rivinius, S. Mieske
  • Valentin IVANOV
    • Dates of stay: March 14 - 21, 2018
    • Institution: ESO, Garching
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Rob IVISON
    • Dates of stay: March 21 - 29, 2018; November 7-15, 2018
    • Institution: ESO Director of Science, Garching
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo, I. de Gregorio
  • Tereza JERABKOVA
    • Dates of stay: November 14-16, 2018
    • Institution: ESO Garching Science Office
    • ESO inviting party: I. de Gregorio
  • Sebastian KAMANN
    • Dates of stay: April 25 - May 8, 2018
    • Institution: Liverpool John Moores University, UK
    • ESO inviting party: F. Selman
  • Markus KISSLER-PATIG
    • Dates of stay: July 31 - August 9, 2018
    • Institution: ESO Garching Science Office
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Bruno LEIBUNDGUT
    • Dates of stay: April 16 - 21, 2018
    • Institution: ESO, Garching
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Karina MAUCO
    • Dates of stay: November 27 - 30, 2018
    • Institution: Universidad de Valparaiso
    • ESO inviting party: I. De Gregorio
  • Rebecca McELROY
    • Dates of stay: October 1 - 5, 2018
    • Institution: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
    • ESO inviting party: J. Mejia-Restrepo
  • Frederique “Fred” MOTTE
    • Dates of stay: October 5 - October 20, 2018
    • Institution: Minerva Observatory-University Grenoble-Alpes, France
    • Scientific interests: Star Formation, especially the earliest phases of star cluster formation; Origin of the IMF; Far-infrared to submillimeter observations (Herschel, ALMA)
    • ESO inviting party: A. Plunkett
  • Gabriela MURO-ARENA
    • Dates of stay: October 29 - December 29, 2018
    • Institution: University of Amsterdam, NL & DAS-Calan, Universidad de Chile
    • ESO inviting party: B. Dent & M. Villenave
  • Justus NEUMANN
    • Dates of stay: November 7-9, 2018
    • Institution: Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Germany
    • ESO inviting party: C. Melo
  • Ana MONREAL IBERO
    • Dates of stay: September 6 - October 6, 2018
    • Institution: IAC-Inst. Astrofisica Canarias, Spain
    • ESO inviting party: J. Smoker
  • Priscila J. PESSI
    • Dates of stay: April 15 -  July 15, 2018
    • Institution: IALP/UNLP - CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
    • Scientific interests: Core collapse Supernovae; Spectral Analysis; Photometric Analysis
    • ESO inviting party: J. Anderson
  • Karen POLLARD
    • Dates of stay: December 5, 2017 - January 22, 2018
    • Institution: College of Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
    • Scientific interests: High resolution spectroscopy; Late stages of stellar evolution; Radially and non-radially pulsating stars; Search for extra-solar planets using microlensing and transits; Type II Cepheids and RV Tauri stars
    • ESO inviting party: G. Mathys
  • Federica RICCI
    • Dates of stay: June 8 - September 30, 2018
    • Institution: IA, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
    • ESO inviting party: E. Sani
  • Jan SCHOLTZ
    • Dates of stay: January 30 - February 2, 2018
    • Institution: ESO, Garching
    • ESO inviting party: D. Kakkad
  • Aleksandra SOLARZ
    • Dates of stay: October 20, 2017 - January 9, 2018
    • Institution: National Center for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
    • ESO inviting party: R. Thomas
  • Aleksandra SOLARZ
    • Dates of stay: September 6 - November 30, 2018
    • Institution: National Center for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
    • ESO inviting party: R. Thomas
  • Marko STALEVSKI
    • Dates of stay: November 1 - December 16, 2018
    • Institution: Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Serbia
    • Scientific interests: Active galactic nuclei; Monte Carlo radiative transfer; Dust emission
    • ESO inviting party: K. Tristram
  • Jean SURDEJ
    • Dates of stay: July 19 - August 10, 2018
    • Institution: Liege Univ., Belgium
    • ESO inviting party: A. Smette
  • Mercedes VAZZANO
    • Dates of stay: August 27 - September 7, 2018
    • Institution: IAR, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
    • ESO inviting party: A. Plunkett
  • Rob WITTWNMYER
    • Dates of stay: September 24 - October 24, 2018
    • Institution: MINERVA Observatory-USQ,  Australia
    • Scientific interests: Exoplanets : detection and characterisation, Dynamics of planetary systems, Stellar spectroscopy
    • ESO inviting party: M. Jones