• 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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks
• Infrared Spectroscopy

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

Personal home page

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

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

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

• Exoplanet searches
• Precise radial velocity measurements

• 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

• 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