Emilio Donoso is a staff researcher for the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). He works at the Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE), located in San Juan, Argentina, where he conducts research on extra-galactic astronomy, studying the evolution and properties of galaxy populations observed by large astronomical surveys. He has put a particular emphasis in understanding how galaxies where a supermassive black hole is actively feeding from the surrounding material (namely an active galactic nuclei or AGN), are clustered across cosmic time, and what are the precise environmental conditions that can trigger such a phase.
He is author and coauthor of various publications in these topics and has acquired experience in working with large astronomical data sets, cross-matching galaxy databases from surveys at different wavelengths and computing the correlation functions that describe how galaxies clump in the universe. Recently, he has acquired quite a taste for Python and high performance computing, developing tools to efficiently estimate the clustering of hundreds of millions of sources that will be observed by future surveys.
He holds a MSc degree in Astronomy from Universidad Nacional de San Juan (Argentina), and a PhD from the Max-Planck Institut for Astrophysics (Garching, Germany). He joined the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA) as a postdoctoral researcher (2010-2012), where he became wiser by working for the WISE space mission (Wide Space Infrared Explorer Telescope). As a good salmon, he returned to his natal river joining CONICET as adjoin researcher, and as professor at Universidad Nacional de San Juan.
Friday 10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m.