Antonio Martínez-Henares
Position: PhD Candidate
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 protostars, and their potential impact on the ability of the disk to form planets.
I am currently doing my PhD at the Center for Astrobiology under the direction of Izaskun Jiménez-Serra and Nuria Huélamo, where we explore the effect of photoionization, protostellar winds and jets, and binary companions on the evolution of disks.
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, and have presented my work in four conferences and three seminars.
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).