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About me
I am a Faculty Member at the Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), since July 2022. I am President of the Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía (SOCHIAS) for the 2025-2026 period.
I was previously a Research Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (Chile) from October 2018 to July 2022. I obtained my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), working in the group of Fabian Walter.
My current research focuses on the discovery and characterization of the first luminous quasars in the very early universe (i.e. ~800 Myr old). These objects host very massive black holes in their centers, and they are formidable beacons of the pristine cosmic times. I am interested both in their physical properties and in the environments where they live in, which are predicted to be among the richest in the first Gyr of the universe.
I am currently part of several international collaborations, e.g., XQR-30, EREBUS, the LSST AGN Science Collaboration, and the 4MOST Chilean-based survey ChANGES.
