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I am an observational astrophysicist studying galaxies near and far. I obtained my PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge in 2015. After that, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, before starting a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF-OABrera) in late 2016. In September 2019 I joined the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics of the University of Oslo as Associate Professor (permanent faculty member). Since 2020, I am appointed teacher of the Observational Astronomy course for Bachelor students in Physics at the University of Oslo.
My main research area is the study of feedback processes and how they shape the baryon cycle in galaxies, with a focus on the cold and dense molecular gas phase - which is the raw fuel for star formation.
I am the Coordinator of two EU Research Infrastructure grants funding the interdisciplinary research needed to plan for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) observatory: the Horizon 2020 Design Study (2021-2024, 3.5M EUR, see this link) and the new Horizon Europe consolidation study (4M EUR, Grant agreement in preparation), expected to start in 2025. AtLAST is a concept for a transformational and sustainable 50-meter sub-mm single dish observatory, hosting up to 6 instruments with fields of view of 1-2 degrees in diameter, to be built on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile. Visit the AtLAST project website for further information.
On the Llano de Chajnantor in the Atacama desert in Chile, surrounded by ALMA antennas
News:
The AtLAST team will receive additional 4M EUR from the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructure work programme to consolidate the plans for the new observatory. Grant and consortium agreement preparation ongoing in Summer 2024. The phase 2 of AtLAST is expected to officially begin in Jan 2025.
Our work on molecular gas scaling relations in the low-stellar mass regime of star forming galaxies has been accepted for publication in A&A: Hagedorn et al. (2024)
Read about the results of our theoretical investigation of FIR/sub-mm line emission from the circumgalactic and interstellar medium of galaxies aimed at producing forecasts for AtLAST: Schimek et al. (2024a) and the recently accepted paper focusing on FIR/sub-mm line ratios: Schimek et al. (2024b).
Our multi-tracer investigation of cold molecular gas in local ultra infrared luminous galaxies, exploiting new observations taken with the APEX telescope and a rich public ALMA archival dataset, has produced two publications: check Montoya Arroyave et al. (2024) and Montoya Arroyave et al. (2023), both accepted on A&A.
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