Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Bruno Merín
ESAC Science Data Centre
19 May 2017 Star and planet formation, disk evolution; Exo-planets population models; Infrared and multi-wavelength astronomy; machine learning and discovery; computational bayesian statistics; Space data science
Matt Johns
Mirror Laboratory, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
16 May 2017
Taka Kajino
Int. Research Center for Big-Bang Cosmology and Element Genesis
6 Apr 2017
James Binney
University of Oxford
31 Mar 2017 Encyclopedia article on our Galaxy, Modelling the Galaxy, Galaxy formation, Android application demonstrating orbits in our Galaxy, Galactic warps
Stuart Wyithe
University of Melbourne
27 Mar 2017 to 5 Apr 2017 the evolution of the earliest galaxies, gravitational lensing
Paula Andrea Sánchez
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
13 Mar 2017 to 7 Jun 2017 Active galactic nuclei (AGN) variability and its connection with AGN physical properties, time domain astronomy, variable stars, big data analysis, data science.
Robin Dong(董若冰)
Hubble Fellow at University of Arizona
10 Mar 2017 to 16 Mar 2017 My main research interests are in the general area of extrasolar planets. Specifically, how to connect the theories of planet formation with observations of protoplanetary disks
Andreas Schulze
NAOJ
8 Mar 2017 Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, Surveys
Ye-Fei Yuan
University of Science and Technology of China
2 Mar 2017 Relativistic astrophysics, focusing on compact objects (neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs), and nuclear astrophysics (physics of dense nuclear matter, high energy neutrinos)
Amelia Stutz
University of Concepcion
27 Feb 2017 to 1 Mar 2017 Star formation, molecular clouds, the formation of stellar clusters, mm/sub-mm/IR observations, kinematics, spectroscopy.