• Observational cosmology
• Formation and evolution of galaxies and QSOs
• Far infrared and submillimetric extragalactic backgrounds

• Diffuse stellar population in galaxy clusters & intracluster planetary nebulae
• Galaxy and galaxy cluster formation and evolution
• Dynamics of early-type galaxies, mass content of galaxies, polarrings, properties of dark matter haloes

• Pulsations and mass loss of early type stars
• Light atomic elements in the interstellar medium
• Late stages of stellar evolution

• Starburst galaxies
• Gravitational lensing

• Extra-solar planet detection and characterisation, principally via the transit and microlensing methods
• Variable stars
• High precision photometric methods, principally difference imaging
• Algorithms in Astronomy

• Star formation and young stellar evolution
• Magnetic fields on young stars
• Infrared instrumentation

Fernando Comeron

• Very young stellar objects
• Dynamics of the insterstellar medium
• Galactic structure

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Stellar magnetic fields and activity
• Planets, disks, and star-planet interactions
• Stellar variability
• Binary star evolution
• High-resolution spectroscopy

• High redshift radio galaxies
• Radio and millimetre interferometry
• Radio surveys
• Optical spectropolarimetry

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies, including the Galaxy
• Star clusters and OB associations

• Intergalactic medium at high redshifts
• Primeval galaxies

• Quasar surveys
• X-ray surveys
• Quasar absorption lines
• Computational astronomy

• Galactic dynamics
• Early-type galaxies
• Stellar populations
• 3D spectroscopy
• Numerical simulations
• Data analysis softwares

• AGN
• High z galaxies
• Polarimetry

• Observational cosmology
• High-redshift galaxies and quasars
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs)
• Large Scale Structure and peculiar motion of galaxies

• Novae Supernovae
• UV astronomy
• Future Telescopes

• Stellar dynamics
• Spiral galaxies

• Comets, asteroids, trans-neptunian objects
• Surface properties and evolution of icy bodies
• Cometary activity at large heliocentric distances
• Ultra-deep imaging

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• Infrared extragalactic astronomy
• Extragalactic Surveys

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Dwarf galaxies in galaxy clusters
• Extragalactic globular clusters
• Stellar populations
• Element abundances of galactic globular clusters

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Optical and near-IR interferometry
• Double stars and stellar evolution
• Star formation

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Central Parsecs of AGN
• High-Mass Star Formation
• Evolved Star Mass Loss
• Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation /  (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution / (3) Stellar Populations / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

• Magnetic activity in cool stars and stellar clusters
• Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of stars and circumstellar environments
• T Tauri and pre-main sequence stars
• Stellar surface imaging

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation / (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

• Stellar evolution (post main sequence, RGB, AGB, post-AGB)
• Star formation
• Planetary and cometary atmospheres
• Very high resolution imaging and interferometry

• Planetary nebulae
• Late stages of stellar evolution
• Stellar mass loss and interaction with the interstellar medium

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Extragalactic globular cluster systems
• Stellar populations
• Galaxy dynamics

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Stellar populations of early-type galaxies
• Extragalactic globular clusters
• Integral-field spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Active galaxies, relativistic jets in extragalactic and galactic sources, synchrotron and inverse Compton emission, polarization and extragalactic magnetic fields, Faraday rotation, radio surveys.
• Optical/IR telescopes; telescope control; aperture synthesis at cm, mm and sub-mm wavelengths.

• Supernovae
• QSO absorbers
• Cosmology

Research Area(s): (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Observational cosmology
• Galaxy evolution
• QSO absorption lines

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Isolated neutron stars
• Planet formation
• Stars in the solar neighborhood
• High resolution spectroscopy, precise radial velocity measurements

• Multiwavelength properties of AGN and their SED (X-ray, optical, near-IR, sub-mm, radio)
• Highly obscured (Compton thick) AGN
• AGN properties as a function of the environment: field, groups, clusters of galaxies
• high-redshift X-ray clusters of galaxies: their metallicities and AGN content

• Galactic globular clusters
• Horizontal branch stars
• Late stages of stellar evolution

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers at high redshift
• Dust at high redshift
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Formation of Large Scale Structure
• Redshift Evolution of the Fundamental Plane
• Redshift Evolution of Core Properties of Elliptical Galaxies

• Co-evolution of black holes and galaxies
• Nuclear star clusters
• Build-up of galaxy centres
• Galactic dynamics
• 3D Spectroscopy

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• BL Lacertae Objects
• X-ray Spectra of AGN
• Blazar Surveys

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Precision Spectroscopy, direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration
• Light Element Abundances (Li and Be): Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Galactic Enrichment, Stellar Mixing
• Globular Clusters: light elements anti-correlations
• Chemical Abundance of stars in the local group, in clusters and in the field
• Exo-Planets, planets around evolved stars

• Supernovae
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Monte Carlo Simulations

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Star formation
• TTauri stars, Pre-main sequence binaries
• Young stellar clusters

• Galactic chemical evolution
• UV and optical astronomy
• High-resolution spectroscopy

• starf ormation in this and nearby galaxies
• cirumstellar matter (disks, outflows)
• near-infrared spectroscopy (particularly of H2)

• Resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies
• Extragalactic globular clusters
• Variable stars
• Centaurus A = NGC 5128

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• High angular resolution (interferometry, speckle, occultations)
• Late-type giant stars (temperatures, dust shells)
• Young stars (binaries, disks, halos)
• Low-mass MS stars (binaries, temperatures, masses, brown dwarfs

• Stellar populations in nearby Galaxies
• Distance measurements
• Star formation and early stellar evolution

• HII regions
• Star formation
• Nearby galaxies

• Observational cosmology
• Formation and evolution of galaxies and clusters

• Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
• Stellar magnetic fields
• Star formation and stellar evolution

• Physics of interstellar dust
• IR/mm continuum: imaging
• Formation of stars/galaxies

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Supvernovae, their use as distance indicators
• IR spectroscopy
• High resolution spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Starburst Galaxies
• Super Star Clusters
• Adaptive Optics/NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

• High mass star formation
• Young (proto-)stellar clusters
• Young brown dwarfs
• Circumstellar disks and their evolution

• Resolved stellar populations
• Star Clusters
• Galactic Bulge
• Chemical Abundances
• Adaptive optics - NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution / (3) Stellar Populations

• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks
• Infra red Spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• The formation and evolution of galaxies
• High-redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters
• Cosmological simulations
• Gravitational lensing

Research Area(s):(4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• High redshift galaxies and AGN
• Kinematics of distant galaxies
• Polarimetry

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Planetary nebulae
• HII regions
• Polarimetry

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Optical interferometry
• Stellar surfaces
• AGN

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Cool gas in galaxies
• Relation between QSO absorption lines and galaxies
• HI mass functions, luminosity functions

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Star formation
• Embedded clusters, in particular massive clusters
• Mass segregation in young clusters
• The IMF (Initial Mass Function)
• Disc population
• The extinction law
• High-resolution (near-infrared) photometry

• Stellar population in galactic globular clusters
• Stellar dynamics in star clusters
• Exotic stellar populations and IMBHs in globular clusters
• Star formation history in star-burst clusters
• Pre Main-Sequence stars

• Kinematics and stellar population in nearby galaxies
• Super massive black holes
• Giant low surface brightness galaxies

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Nearby Galaxies
• Environmental Effects
• Star formation cycle in galaxies
• Dust extinction
• Multiwavelength astronomy

• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Molecular gas properties/dynamics and star-formation
• Early-type galaxies

• Star Formation, with emphasis on high-mass stars and clusters
• Radio and (sub)mm observations and modeling

• Low and high-mass star formation
• Radio-interferometry and VLBI
• Maser physics

• Extrasolar planet searches
• Gravitational microlensing
• Debris disk evolution
• Robotic telescopes

• Early-type galaxies
• Galaxy dynamics
• Super-massive black holes
• 3D spectroscopy
• Laser guide star adaptive optics

• Clustering measurements of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs)
• X-ray surveys and multi-wavelength follow-up
• Search for Compton-thick absorbed AGNs
• X-ray spectroscopy of AGNs

• Mass-loss from evolved stars
• Dust in the Local Group
• High angular resolution
• Infrared astronomy

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• Low- and intermediate-mass star formation
• Protoplanetary discs
• Prestellar cores
• Sub-millimetre interferometry
• Astrochemistry

• Stellar evolution: evolutionary mixing processes
• Chemical evolution of the light elements (Li and Be)
• Stellar Nucleosynthesis (s-process elements)
• Chemical evolution of the Galaxy
• High resolution spectroscopy

• Formation and evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
• Properties of protoplanetary disks
• Optical and infrared wide-field imaging surveys

• AGN Feedback
• Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies
• Radio Galaxies

Research Area(s):(4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Solar System formation
• Composition of small bodies (asteroids, TNOs, comets)
• Source regions of meteorites

Scientific interests:

• Young massive star clusters
• Starburst galaxies
• Galactic winds and outflows
• Hydrodynamic wind-clump interactions

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• Techniques of strong and weak gravitational lensing and their application

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Observational cosmology

• Star formation
• Star cluster formation and evolution
• Evolved stellar clusters

• Accretion Variability in YSOs
• Stellar Winds and Jets
• Formation of low mass stars and brown dwarfs
• Circumstellar disks

• Disk evolution in multiple stellar systems
• Transiting planets
• High resolution imaging and NIR interferometry
• Low mass to very low mass multiple stars

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Stellar and AGN components in high redshift radiogalaxies

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• Infrared extragalactic astronomy
• High energy astrophysics

• Open Clusters
• Stellar Characterization of Host planet stars
• Stellar abundances of late-type stars

• Resolved stellar populations
• Stellar abundances
• The Galactic Bulge

• Observational Cosmology
• Non-standard Cosmological Models
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution

• Galactic Dynamics
• Early-type galaxies and barred galaxies
• Numerical Simulations

• Stellar populations
• Chemical abundances
• Galaxy evolution

• Supernovae: evolution, progenitor stars, models, characteristics, dust properties
• Magellanic Clouds SNRs
• SN1987A

• Dynamics of globular clusters
• Intermediate-mass black holes

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks and their Evolution
• Accretion Processes in Star Formation and Disk evolution

• Massive stars
• Galactic Centre science
• Circum-stellar medium
• Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
• Sparse Aperture Masking Interferometry

• Non-standard cosmological models
• Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Structures

• Low mass star formation
• Young stars with planet-forming discs

• Observational cosmology
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• High-redshift galaxies

• Exoplanet searches
• Precise radial velocity measurements

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Sub-mm surveys
• High-redshift galaxies

• Chemical abundances
• Protoplanetary disks, HII regions, Planetary nebulae
• Starburst galaxies
• Integral field spectroscopy

• Study of comets in millimetre interferometry
• Chemistry and Structure of cometary inner atmospheres
• Structure and thermal properties of cometary nuclei

• High mass star formation
• OB cluster formation
• The physical/kinematic structure of Galactic giant molecular clouds
• cm/mm single-dish Galactic-plane surveys
• Radio/mm/sub-mm interferometry
• Variable accretion in low mass star formation (FUOrs)

• Mass-loss and chemistry in the CSEs in AGB stars
• Massive star formation

• Earliest phases of star formation (prestellar cores, Class 0 and Class I protostars)
• Interferometric and single-dish mm/submm observations of such objects
• Formation of multiple proto-systems
• Interplay of magnetic fields, turbulence and gravity during the earliest phases of star formation

• Low-mass star-formation
• Gas kinematic and the dissipation of turbulence
• Large scale structure and object identification algorithms
• Astrochemistry
• Early stages of stage formation (starless cores, Class 0, and Class I objects)
• Outflow kinematics and its effect on the accreting material
• Synthetic observations of simulations to provide a "fair" comparison with obsevations

• High-energy astrophysics
• Black holes, neutron stars and other excotic objects
• Jet formation and accretion disks
• X-ray binaries, ultra-luminous X-ray sources and active galactic nuclei
• Interferometry

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• Galaxy evolution
• Galaxy clusters
• Radio AGN
• Star formation
• Survey science (SDSS, NVSS, FIRST, IRAS, COSMOS)
• Multi-wavelength follow-up