Visitors in 2025

SENIOR
 
Dr. Dominique PROUST
  • Dates of stay: Nov 18 - Dec 2, 2025
  • Institution: Obs. Paris-Meudon, France
  • Inviting party: I. Saviane
Scientific Interests: Clusters & Superclusters of galaxies (dynamics & Metallicity), Archeoastronomy at Eastern Island
 
Rafael FRAGA Guerço
  • Dates of visit: 3 Nov to 3 Dec, 2025
  • Institution: Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile
  • Inviting party: Elisa Garro
Scientific Interests: High resolution spectroscopy and stellar abundances in the Milky Way (IGRINS, iSHELL, FTS, CRIRES), Chemical and dynamical evolution of stellar populations and open clusters, Galactic archaeology using infrared surveys (APOGEE, Gaia)
 
Mr. Jaime ALONSO
  • Institution: From CAB-INTA CSIC, Spain
  • Dates of Stay: 6 Oct to 6 Dec, 2025
  • Inviting party: C. Paladini

Scientific Interests: Evolved stars, Stellar multiplicity, VLTI/MATISSE

Stefan STEFANOV

  • Dates of Visit: 3 July to 14 Sep 2025
  • Institution: Sofia University, Bulgaria
  • Inviting party: Matias Jones

Prof. John K. WEBB

  • Dates of stay: April 14 - July 8, 2025
  • Institution: University of Cambridge, UK
  • Inviting party:  G. Lo Curto & C. Ledoux

Dr. Koraljka MUZIC

  • Dates of Visit: 3 March, to 30 June, 2025
  • Institution: Visit from IA, Lisbon University, Portugal
  • Inviting party: I De Gregorio

Scientific Interests: Brown dwarfs, Star formation, Young stellar clusters

Dr. Gonzalo MUNOZ Sanchez
  • Dates of Visit:  1 April, to 31 July, 2025
  • Institution: National Observatory of Athens, Greece
  • Inviting party: Evgenia Koumpia
 Scientific Interests: Evolved massive stars, Episodic mass loss, Observational astronomy
 
Evangelia CHRISTODOULOU
  • Dates of visit:17 March, to 18 July, 2025
  • Institution: IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
  • Inviting party: Andrea Mehner  
Scientific Interests: Massive stars, RSGs, Episodic mass loss evidence of massive stars, Infrared spectroscopy

Dr. Matt SHULTZ

  • Dates of stay: Jan 8 to Feb 8, 2025
  • Institution: Queens University, Canada
  • Inviting party: Thomas Rivinius & Robert Klement 

Dr. Guillaume GUIGLION

  • Dates of stay: Nov 25 to Dec 9, 2025
  • Institution: MPIA, Germany
  • Inviting party: Luca Sbordone

Dr. Santiago GONZALEZ GAITAN

  • Dates of Visit: 14 Feb, to 11 Aug, 2025
  • Institution: IA, Lisbon University, Portugal
  • Inviting party: Joe Anderson

Scientific Interests: Supernovae cosmology, Dust extinction, FORS2-VLT extended imaging polarimetry, Photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry of SNe and their environments
 

STUDENTS
 
Mr. Isaiah COX
  • Dates of visit: 3 Nov to 30 Nov, 2025
  • Inviting party: A. Pizzetti
  • Institution: Clemson University, US

Rita SANTOS

  • Dates of visit: 16 June to 27 July 2025
  • Institution: Student from CENTRA-IST Lisbon, Portugal
  • Inviting party: J. Anderson and S. Gonzalez

Sebastien BEAUCHAMP

  • Dates of visit: 25 March, 2025  to 25 July, 2025
  • Inviting party: Alain Smette  SSDF student
  • Institution: MSc Student from ENSTA-IP Paris, France

 Working on : Molecfit tool development, Adaptative Optics, ELT

Daniel DAZA
  • Dates of stay: 14 Apr, 2025 to 14 July, 2025
  • Inviting party: Aaron Labdon
  • Institution: MSc Student from DAS, U. Chile
Working on : Planet Formation, Planet-Disk interactions, Interferometry

Raphael LALLEMAND

  • Dates of stay: 4 March, 2025  to 31 May, 2025
  • Inviting party: Michael Marsset   ECS visitor
  • Institution: PhD Student from Observatoire de Paris, LTE/IMCCE

Working on : Small bodies, Occultations, Photometry

Christian PISCITELLI

  • Dates of stay: 1 March, 2025  to 26 May, 2025
  • Inviting party: Ana Maria Jimenez  SSDF 2025
  • Institution: MSc Student from   Naples University, Italy

Working on : AGN -specially Broad Absorption Lines Quasars, Radio Astronomy, Galaxy Evolution

Jorge ANAIS

  • Dates of Visit:  1 Apr, to 31 July, 2025
  • Inviting party: Elisa Garro
  • Institution:  Universidad de Antofagasta

Scientific Interests: Star Clusters, Data Science

Javier OSSES Pozo

  • Dates of visit: 5 March, 2025  to 31 May, 2025
  • Inviting party: Martina Baratella
  • Institution: MSc Student from IFA, Univ de Valparaiso

Working on: Star formation, High-resolution spectroscopy, Young Stellar Objects spectroscopy

Valentina SUAREZ Perez

  • Dates of stay: 3 March, 2025  to 31 May, 2025
  • Inviting party: Evgenia Koumpia
  • Institution: MSc Student from DAS, Univ de Chile

Working on : Star formation, Astrochemistry

Pierpaolo CONDO
  • Dates of visit : Feb 15 to May 15, 2025
  • Inviting party: Marco Berton & Enrico Congiu
  • Institution: Tor Vergata-Roma University, Italy

Working on: High-Resolution Spectroscopy; Accretion and Ejection Processes & Galaxy-AGN Coevolution and Feedback

Diego BENITEZ

  • Dates of stay: 5 Feb, 2025  to 5 April, 2025
  • Institution: MSc  student from IFA, Universidad de Valparaiso
  • Inviting party: Jesus Corral

Working on : Binary stars, Hot subdwarf stars, High-resolution spectroscopy

Yanina LOPEZ

  • Dates of stay: 3 Feb, 2025 to 30 April, 2025
  • Institution: PhD student from P. Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
  • Inviting party: Fuyan Bian

Working on : AGNs, Quasars, Data Science, Photometry, Epoch of Reionization 

Ms. Catalina  AVALOS

  • Dates of stay: Jan 20 to Mar 31, 2025
  • Institution: MSc Student at Universidad de Atacama
  • Inviting party: MJ Rain & E Sedaghati