Bio

I was born in Coquimbo, Chile. I enjoy the music and sports specially play football and futsal, besides to play it, I am a fan of Coquimbo Unido the profesional football team of my hometown. I studied Electronic Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in Valparaíso, Chile. Also I completed my MSc degree in Electronic Engineering at UTFSM under the supervision of Dr. Pedro Escárate and  Dr. Andrés Guesalaga. 

In the summer of 2012 I carried out an internship at LCO (Las Campanas Observatory). This work involved  electronic engineering procedures and an internship project. When I finished my graduate studies I joined a three months internship at the University of Arizona. The research involved a frequency-based analysis and comparisons of tip-tilt on-sky data registered with Magellan Telescope Adaptive Optics system (MagAO) under the supervision of Dr. Laird Close. During 2015 I worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E). My work consisted in astronomical instrumentation research, mainly focused on vibration in adaptive optics (AO) control with both simulations and optical test bench experience. From 2016 to early 2017 I worked as a Electronic Engineer in the project Mirror at the Scientific and Technological Center of Valparaiso (CCTVal). My work was mainly focused on design and implementation of quality control system for mirrors using a Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor.  

After a couple of years working on adaptive optics for astronomy I decided to go further. Looking to be more involved with astronomical observatories and science projects, I started my PhD studies in Astrophysics in 2017 at Universidad de Valparaiso. The same motivation led me to apply to the ESO Studentship in 2018 where I was awarded with a two year contract to conduct my PhD research under the co-supervision of an ESO staff astronomer in the ESO offices in Santiago de Chile. 

Nowadays I am working as post-doctoral fellow in the University of Liege as part of the SPECULOOS project.