Antonio Martínez-Henares
Position: Research Technician
ORCID: 0000-0001-5191-2075
Scopus ID: 57544811900
Keywords: astrophysics, star formation, circumstellar disks, stellar outflows, radio astronomy.
My research focuses on the processes that determine the evolution of circumstellar disks around low- and high-mass young stars, and their potential impact on the ability of the disk to form planets.
I did my PhD at the Center for Astrobiology under the direction of Izaskun Jiménez-Serra and Nuria Huélamo, graduating from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in January 2026. During my PhD, we explored the effect of UV photoevaporation, protostellar winds and jets, and binary companions on the evolution of disks. Part of my predoctoral studies were conducted as a visiting researcher at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in the USA and at the ALMA Observatory in Chile.
Prior to this, I graduated in Physics from Universidad de Valencia in 2018 and got a Master's Degree in Astrophysics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2019.
For my investigation, I analyze observations from radio to optical wavelengths, from single dish and interferometric facilities, namely ALMA, VLTI, VLA, SMA, GTC and IRAM 30m. I am also an experienced user of MORELI, a 3D non-LTE radiative transfer code that predicts the radio continuum and hydrogen radio recombination line emission from star forming regions, for current and future telescopes such as the SKA.
I am first author of three peer-reviewed articles, which have been done in collaboration with the CfA and with the FAUST ALMA Large Program.
First-ever spatially resolved Hydrogen Radio Recombination Line maser revealing the wind and jet from the massive star MWC 349A, observed with ALMA and modelled with MORELI (Martínez-Henares et al., 2024).
Detection of a potential new outflow from the young binary [BHB2007]11 using multiple molecular tracers observed with ALMA (Martínez-Henares et al., 2025).