Institution: Ioffe Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Scientific interests: Quasar absorption lines; Molecular hydrogen; Interstellar medium
Inviting party: C. Ledoux
Piercarlo BONIFACIO
Dates of stay: October 11 - December 10, 2019
Institution: GEPI-Obs. Paris, CNRS & Universite PSL, France
Scientific interests: Chemical abundances in the Universe; Modelling of stellar atmospheres and spectra; Instrumentation: multi-object spectrographs, innovative detectors for visible and IR.
Inviting party: L. Sbordone
Elisabetta CAFFAU
Dates of stay: October 11 - December 10, 2019
Institution: Obs. Paris, CNRS & Universite PSL, France
Scientific interests: Sulphur abundance in Galaxy and in clusters; Metal-poor stars (search and chemical analysis)
Inviting party: L. Sbordone
Julio CARBALLO BELLO
Dates of stay: February 4 - March 1, 2019; March 18 - May 31, 2019; November 11 - 15, 2019
Institution: PUC / MAS, Santiago
ESO inviting party: J. Corral
Arlette CHACON
Dates of stay: February 14 - March 15, 2019
Institution: Universidad de Valparaiso
ESO inviting party: J. Milli
Alejandro CLOCCHIATTI
Dates of stay: December 9, 2019 - January 10, 2020
Institution: CATA & Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Scientific interests: Supernovae; Cosmology; Final stages of single & binary stellar evolution; time domain surveys
ESO inviting party: J. Anderson
Lodovico COCCATO
Dates of stay: May 27-31, 2019
Institution: ESO, Garching
ESO inviting party: I. De Gregorio
Bruno DIAS
Dates of stay: November 27 - 29, 2019
Institution: Univ Nac Andres Bello-UNAB, Chile
ESO inviting party: I. De Gregorio
Dainis DRAVINS
Dates of stay: February 4 - April 15, 2019
Institution: Lund University, Sweden
Scientific interests: Highest accuracy stellar radial velocities; Hydrodynamic structure of stellar atmospheres; Using CTA, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, for optical (i.e., not gamma) astronomy
ESO inviting party: G. Lo Curto
Meriem EL YAJOURI
Dates of stay: September 20 - December 21, 2019
Institution: PSL University - Observatoire de Paris, France
Institution: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain
Scientific interests: Extragalactic astrophysics (molecular spectroscopy and the associated continuum); Far-infrared and submillimeter spectra of buried galaxy nuclei as observed first with the ISO satellite and then with Herschel/PACS and SPIRE; Extragalactic molecular outflows observed in several molecular species, specifically in the OH and OH+ lines at far-infrared and submillimeter wavelengths; Analysis of the H2O spectra in galaxies at high redshifts
ESO inviting party: C. Yang
Paul J. GROOT
Dates of stay: May 13 - 24, 2019
Institution: Radboud University, The Netherlands
ESO inviting party: Paul Vreeswijk & C. Ledoux
Michael HILKER
Dates of stay: November 26 - 29, 2019
Institution: DOO - ESO Garching
ESO inviting party: L. Schmidtobreick
Damien HUTSEMEKERS
Dates of stay: February 12 - March 12, 2019
Institution: University of Liege, Belgium
Scientific interests: Study of quasar structure using gravitational lensing and polarimetry, Relation to large-scale structures; High resolution spectroscopy of comets, abundances, isotopic ratios; Evolution of massive stars through the study of their circumstellar nebulae
ESO inviting party: A. Smette, C. Opitom
Jens-Kristian KROGAGER
Dates of stay: January 21 - February 15, 2019
Institution: IAP-Observatoire de Paris, France
ESO inviting party: C. Ledoux
Donald KURTZ
Dates of stay: June 17 - July 13, 2019
Institution: University of Central Lancashire, UK
Scientific interests: Stellar structure and evolution; Asteroseismology; Rapidly oscillating Ap stars
ESO inviting party: G. Mathys
Foteini LYKOU
Dates of stay: May 22 - 31, 2019
Institution: Hong Kong University
ESO inviting party: C. Paladini
Anaëlle MAURY
Dates of stay: January 21 - February 1, 2019
Institution: CEA-Saclay, France
Scientiific interests: Low mass star formation; Observation and model of protostellar magnetic fields; Early protosteller disks
ESO inviting party: V. Le Gouellec (PhD student)
Anthony MEILLAND
Dates of stay: October 24 - 30, 2019
Institution: OCA-Nice, France
ESO inviting party: X. Haubois
Lorenzo MONACO
Dates of stay: November 11 - 30, 2019
Institution: UNAB, Chile
ESO inviting party: L. Sbordone
Zaira MODROÑO BERDIÑAS
Dates of stay: February 4 - March 1st, 2019
Institution: Universidad de Chile, Cerro Calan
ESO inviting party: R. Herrero-Illana
Lorenzo MORELLI
Dates of stay: November 25 - 29, 2019
Institution: Universidad de Atacama, Chile
ESO inviting party: E. Pompei
Andres PIATTI
Dates of stay: November 4 - 17, 2019
Institution: OAC - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
Scientific interests: Astrophysics of galaxies: clusters and stellar populations; Astronomical instrumentation, methods & techniques; Physical data & Processes
ESO inviting party: W.-J. De Wit
Aleksandra SOLARZ
Dates of stay: January 14 - April 15, 2019
Institution: National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
Scientiific interests: Large Scale Structure of the Universe; Machine learning techniques; Active Galactic Nuclei
ESO inviting party: E. Sani, R. Thomas
Svetla TSVETKOVA
Dates of stay: March 10 - April 10, 2019
Institution: Institute of Astronomy & NAO, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Scientific interests: Stellar magnetic fields; Stellar atmospheres; Polarimetry, Spectroscopy
ESO inviting party: C. Paladini
Paul VREESWIJK
Dates of stay: October 22, 2018 - April 22, 2019
Institution: Radboud University, The Netherlands
Scientific interests: GRB afterglows; Superluminous Supernovae; Gravitational wave counterparts
ESO inviting party: C. Ledoux & A. Smette
Lutz WISOTKZKI
Dates of stay: November 12 - 22, 2019
Institution: AIP-Potsdam, Germany
Scientific interests: Galaxies & quasars group homage; Analysing data from MUSE GTO; Circumgalactic Medium