Welcome to my website 

I am an astrophysicist studying some of the most incredible and energetic objects in the universe: supermassive black holes. 

My research is focused on the evolution and properties of the gas around supermassive black holes, using X-ray spectroscopy observations from telescopes such as NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Swift. I am also very interested in the infrared espectroscopic analysis and X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN). You can see my Research and publications pages for more details.

Now, I am a researcher at Universidad Diego Portales (UDP), where I am focusing on studying the structure of dust around the AGN and the supermassive black hole. Before joining to UDP, I did my PhD. at the Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile), and prior to that, I did my Master at the Instituto nacional de pesquisas espaciais in Brazil. Earlier, I was undergraduate student at Universidad Simon Bolivar, in Venezuela and I worked at Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia (CIDA).  You can see my CV for more details (updated November 2022)

I love to do outreach and encourage women to participate in the sciences. Also, I think is fascinating to see how children with/without visual impairments can understand how the universe works through sounds or touching different surfaces.

My mail address: yaherdiaz@gmail.com