
Anna Katherina Vivas Maldonado
Assistant Astronomer
Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
La Serena, Chile
Variable stars, structure and formation of the Milky Way and its satellites, stellar streams, large scale surveys, data mining
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Astronomy, YALE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2002
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Assistant Astronomer Full Time
CERRO TOLOLO INTERAMERICAN OBSERVATORY
La Serena, Chile
2013 - At present
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Research Scientist Full Time
Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía
Merida, Venezuela
2002 - 2013
Doctoral:
1. Study of the RR Lyrae Population in the Thick Disk of the Milky Way, by Cecilia Mateu. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, January 2011
Master:
1. The Origins of ? Centauri, by José Gregorio Fernández, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, January 31, 2014
Undergraduate Senior Thesis (Licenciatura):
1. The Stellar Population of the Canis Major Galaxy, by Cecilia Mateu. Departament of Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, November 2004.
2. Searching RR Lyrae Stars in the Southern Tail of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, by Yolimar Subero. Departament of Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, May 2006
3. Kinematic Study of RR Lyrae Stars in the Inner Halo of the Milky Way, by Yara L. Jaffé. Departament of Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, October 2006
4. Does the Oosterhoff Dichotomy exist in the Halo of the Galaxy?, by Nataly Ospina, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. November 2009
5. Searching for a Possible Galaxy Associated with the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri, by José Gregorio Fernández, Department of Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, December 2011
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Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Award
Fundación Empresas Polar
Venezuela, 2009
Highest scientific prize in Venezuela.
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Dirk Brower Prize
YALE UNIVERSITY
Estados Unidos, 2004
For a contribution of unusual merit to any branch of astronomy

Leonardo Vanzi
full time
Electrical Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile