Short CV

Current position

Postdoctoral research fellow, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica (IASF), Milan, Italy

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (cum laude), Universidad de Granada & Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain. (2020-2024)

Ph.D. Thesis: The quasar main sequence at early cosmic epochs.

Advisors: Dr. Ascensión del Olmo Orozco (IAA-CSIC) & Dr. Paola Marziani (INAF, Padova, Italy).

• M.Sc. in Physics, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil. (2018-2019)

Master Thesis: AGN Feedback in Galaxies from the MaNGA project: an analysis of the distribution of gas and stars.

Advisor: Dr. Rogemar A. Riffel.

• Bachelor in Physics, UFSM, Santa Maria, Brazil. (2014-2017)

Thesis: Outflows in luminous AGN from MaNGA project: mapping the gas and stellar kinematics.

Advisor: Dr. Rogemar A. Riffel.

Awarded grants and fellowships

INAF Guest Observer grant 2023, Postdoctoral fellowship (2024-2025)

Spanish CSIC PhD contract, Scholarship - PhD Thesis (1 year, 2023-2024)

INPhINIT - ”La Caixa” Doctoral Fellowship, Scholarship - Ph.D. Thesis (3 years, 2020-2023)

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Scholarship - Master thesis (2018-2019)

Tutorial Education Program (PET-MEC), Scholarship - Scientific research, monitoring and teaching activities (2015-2017)

Awarded observing time

2024

• e-MERLIN Proposal CY18017, PI: L. Hernandez-Garcia, 24 hours. On the origin of the kpc-scale radio emission in AT2021hdr

• VLT/X-Shooter Proposal 114.27A2, PI: P. Marziani, 20 hours. Metal content of AGN outflows

2023

• NOT/ALFOSC Proposal 67-801, PI: A. Deconto-Machado. Disentangling the physical nature of the high accreting QSO SDSSJ153830.55+085517.1

• VLT/X-Shooter Proposal 112.25GJ, PI: A. Deconto-Machado, 9 hours. Calibrating super-Eddington quasars as distance indicators

• VLT/X-Shooter Proposal 112.25XE, PI: P. Marziani, 5 hours. Metal content of AGN outflows

2022

• VLT/X-Shooter Proposal 110.247E.001, PI: A. Deconto-Machado, 16 hours. Calibrating super-Eddington quasars as distance indicators

• Gemini-South/FLAMINGOS2 Proposal GS-2022B-Q-201, PI: S. Panda, 10.8 hours. Calibrating super-Eddington quasars as distance indicators (FT)

• XMM-Newton Proposal 092344/AO-22, PI: E. Piconcelli, 27.5 hours. X-ray spectroscopy of super-Eddington quasars at cosmic noon

Observing experience

2023

• NOT telescope 2.1m Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain. Three nights of photometric and spectroscopic observations

Talks & presentations

Invited talks/seminars: 4

2025 Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milan, Italy

2023 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canárias, Tenerife, Spain 

2022 Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2021 13th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Belgrade, Serbia

Contributed talks in international conferences: 10

2024 “AGN XV: From the present-day Universe to the dark ages” conference, Padova, Italy

2024     XVI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Granada, Spain

2024 “AGN across continents and cosmic time” conference, Durham, England

2023 14th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Bajina Basta, Serbia

2023 “AGN Winds on the Chesapeake” conference, Easton, United States of America

2023 VI Meeting of AGN Research in Spain in the Era of the New Observatories, Granada, Spain

2022 “Panchromatic view of the life-cycle of AGN” conference, ESA centre, Madrid, Spain

2022 European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain

2022 “AGNXIV: The Renaissance of Black Holes and Galaxies” conference, Firenze, Italy

2021 XLIV Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Astronomical Society, online

Selected posters:

2024     “AGN across continents & cosmic time” conference, Durham, England 

2024     European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Padova, Italy

2022     European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain

2021     European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, online

2020       Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, online

2020     European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, online

2019     São Paulo School of Advanced Science on First Light, São Paulo, Brazil

Attended international conferences

2024      

• AGN XV: From the present-day Universe to the dark ages, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - INAF, Padova, Italy

• XVI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain

• AGN across continents and cosmic time, Durham University & Newcastle University, Durham, England

2023

• 14th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Bajina Basta, Serbia

• AGN Winds on the Chesapeake, Catholic University of America, Easton, Maryland, USA

• VI Meeting of AGN Research in Spain in the Era of the New Observatories, IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain

2022 

• Panchromatic view of the life-cycle of AGN, European Space Agency centre, Madrid, Spain

• XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canárias (IAC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (virtual attendance)

• European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain

• Active Galactic Nuclei XIV: The Renaissance of Black Holes and Galaxies, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica and Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

2021 

• XLIV Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Astronomical Society, Virtual Meeting, Brazil

• 13th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astronomy, Hybrid Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia

• European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, online

• XIV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, online

• European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, online

Courses and workshops (selected)

2023 IAA-CSIC Severo Ochoa SKA Open Science School, IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain

2021 English for Academic Purposes - an online workshop series for young researchers, Universität Leipzig, Germany, online

2021 Virtual OPTICON Archival School using ESO and ALMA data, OPTICON Workpackage 12

2021 ESCAPE Summer School on Data Science for Astronomy, Astroparticle and Particle Physics, ESCAPE Consortium, online

2021 An introduction to IFU Spectroscopy, IAA-CSIC, online

2021 Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers, Center for Astrostatistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, online

2021 Matplotlib for Beginners: A Brief Severo Ochoa Workshop, IAA-CSIC, Spain, online

2021 First science with interoperable data school, H2020 project ESCAPE, Spain, online

2021 Astrocientistas I: Encontro Brasileiro de Meninas e Mulheres da Astrofísica, Gravitação e Cosmologia, Brazil, online

2021 First Severo Ochoa IAA (SO-IAA) Workshop on Scientific Writing and Oral Presentations in Astronomy, IAA-CSIC, Spain, online

2019 São Paulo School of Advanced Science on First Light: Stars, galaxies and black holes in the epoch of reionization, USP, São Paulo, Brazil

2018 VI Meeting of Physics and Astronomy, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil

2018 Course of General Astronomy, UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil

Organization committee member in conferences

2023 VI Meeting of AGN Research in Spain in the Era of the New Observatories, Granada, Spain

2016 15th Academic Week of the Natural and Exact Sciences Center (LOC), UFSM, Santa Maria, Brazil

Reviewer activities

2024- Scientific journal referee - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)

2022- ESO VLT proposal reviewer

Press releases

2024 NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes, NASA press release

2023 The brightest and most distant quasars, both young and old, show powerful galactic winds,  IAA-CSIC maganize

2023 Quasars of very high luminosity are strongly affected by powerful winds involving a broad range of spatial scales, AGN-EHE group webpage, IAA-CSIC

2023 “The winds from beyond”, “Diario de León” Spanish journal

Complete CV

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