My name is Jimena Rodríguez, I obtained my PhD in Astronomy in 2018 at The University of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina). After that, between 2018 and 2021, I was a CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) postdoctoral fellow at The Institute of Astrophysics of La Plata (IALP). In 2021, I began a position as CONICET Assistant Researcher at IALP. Starting in July 2022, I started to work on new JWST data from the Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) Treasury program, as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona.  

I have focused my career on understanding the star formation processes and the early life of stars. For this reason, I have specialized in understanding the resolved stellar population in nearby galaxies by studying their young stellar clusters, associations, and different types of young stellar groups and star-forming regions.

I am exploiting JWST’s capability to penetrate the dust in star-forming galaxies to identify and study the properties of young star clusters that remain embedded in dust and gas, and in this way be able to decode the earliest stages of star cluster evolution.