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 dust and gas around supermassive black holes, using X-ray spectroscopy observations from telescopes such as NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Swift and Infrared facilities as Spitzer and JWST. You can see my Research and publications pages for more details.

Now, I am a FONDECYT postdoctoral fellow at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), where I am focusing on studying the star formation and the structure of dust around the AGN and the supermassive black hole. Before joining to UTFSM, I was postdoctoral Fellow in the Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and prior that I got my PhD. degree at the Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile) in 2022. 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).  Here you can see my CV for more details (updated April 2025).

My mail address: yaherdiaz@gmail.com