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Maja Vuckovic

Associate Professor

Instituto de Física y Astronomía

Valparaíso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Asteroseismology, evolved compact low-mass stars, binary stellar evolution, hot subdwarf stars, time series analysis, ground based observations: spectroscopy and photometry, space observations: KEPLER, K2, TESS, PLATO

Educación

  •  Astrophysics, KU Leuven, Belgium. Bélgica, 2009
  •  Astrophysics, Iowa State University. Estados Unidos, 2005
  •  Astronomy , UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE. Serbia, 2001

Experiencia Académica

  •   Associate professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

    Facultad de Ciencias

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2014 - At present

  •   Fellow Full Time

    ESO

    Santiago, Chile

    2010 - 2014

  •   Post Doc Full Time

    KU Leuven

    Faculty of Science

    Leuven, Bélgica

    2009 - 2010

  •   PhD Student Full Time

    KU Leuven

    Faculty of Science

    Leuven, Chile

    2005 - 2009

  •   Master Student Full Time

    Iowa State University

    Ames, Estados Unidos

    2001 - 2005

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    Instituto de Física y Astronomía

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2014 - At present

  •   Fellow Full Time

    ESO

    Santiago, Chile

    2010 - 2014

  •   Post Doc Full Time

    KU Leuven

    Leuven, Bélgica

    2009 - 2010

  •   PhD Student Full Time

    KU Leuven

    Leuven, Chile

    2005 - 2009

  •   Master Student Full Time

    Iowa State University

    Ames, Estados Unidos

    2001 - 2005

Formación de Capital Humano


Since 2014 when I have started my Professorship at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the Faculty of Science of University of Valparaiso (UV) in Chile I have been teaching various courses both in our undergraduate and graduate programme. I have been in the PhD and MSc committees of several students. During my professorship at the UV I have developed a research group that contained through out the years a total of 3 Postdoctoral researchers: Dr. Madelon Bours (funded by the ESO Comité Mixto project I was granted in 2014), Dr. Joris Vos from 2015-2018 on a Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship and Dr. Alba Aller from 2015-2019 on a Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship (ended in May 2019 due to the extension obtained for maternity leave). Currently, I have 2 PhD students working under my supervision: MSc Murat Uzundag (started his PhD in 2019, obtained Beca Conicyt for his PhD in 2019 and recently obtained ESO PhD Scholarship in 2020 for next 2 years) and BSc Larissa Amaral Antunes (started in 2020, obtained Conicyt Beca for her PhD in 2020). I have had 1 BSc student David Concha who defended successfully his undergraduate Thesis under my supervision in second semester of 2019. Currently, I have 2 BSc students who are going their undergraduate research under my supervision.
I was serving as a first vice-president in the directorship of the Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS) from 2015 to 2017, and again in 2018. During these years while serving in SOCHIAS directorship I was responsible for the BECA Adelina Gutierrez (https://sochias.cl/adelinagutierrez/) for graduate students in Chile (two ALMA - Conicyt grants obtained and successfully executed). During 2018 I was in a committee responsible for accreditation of the PhD programme in Astrophysics of UV- we have been granted accreditation for the PhD programme for the following 7 years. I am serving as a member of the Advisory CNTAC Committee since 2019 and in a SOC for the SOCHIAS annual conference to be held in December 2020.
I have started my human capital training well before my professorship, while working at ESO as a Fellow 2010-2014 I was Co-tutoring 2 ESO PhD students: Dr. Daniela Barría and Dr. Hernán Garrido. While I was a Post Doc at KU Leuven, Belgium 2009-2010 I was Co-tutoring a PhD student Dr. Steven Bloemen. During academic years 2008 and 2009 I was a teaching assistant for the Master Course "Binary stars" with Prof. Dr. Conny Aerts and was Co-guiding Thesis of two BSc students at KU Leuven.


Difusión y Transferencia


Comisiones y servicios
Advisory CNTAC Committee
SOC of the SOCHIAS annual meeting to be held in December 2020
SOC of the scientific bianual conference “Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects” 2015-present
Vice president of Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía (SOCHIAS) 2015-2017
Directiva de SOCHIAS 2018-2019
Evaluator of the CNTAC (galactic panel) 2015-2017
Evaluator of Conicyt 2018-present
Evaluator of the Comité Mixto ESO- Gobierno de Chile 2018-2019
Referee for the following scientific journals: ApJ, A&A, MNRAS 2014-present
Comité Acreditación de programa de Doctorado 2017-2018
Comité de Doctorado en Astrofísica 2015-2018
Comité Apoyo Contra Acoso (ACA) 2016-presente
Coordinadora de Observatorio Pocuro de la UV en Calle Larga, V Region 2016-presente

Redes Internacionales
Eclipsing Reflection Effect Binaries from the OGLE Survey EREBOS (PI Schaffenroth, University of Innsbruck, Austria) 2016-presente
The Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium KASC WG11 2009-2013
TASOC Working Group 8 (WG8): Evolved Compact Stars with TESS 2016-present
POEMS (PI Kraus, Astronomical Institute Ondrejov, Check Republic) 2019-present

Difusion
Decenas de charlas publicas sobre astronomía en Chile, Europa y EE. UU.
Día de Astronomía (organización de talleres Sistema Solar) desde 2015-presente
Decenas de notas de presa, TV, video y radio sobre astronomía en general, rol de la mujer en ciencias y mi trabajo de investigación.
Presentadora en Planetario en Belgrado, Serbia 1996-2001


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Graduate Teaching Excellence Award

    Iowa State University

    Estados Unidos, 2004

    The Graduate Teaching Excellence Award was given to an outstanding teaching assistant based on the evaluation of both students and professors of Graduate studies in Astrophysics.


 

Article (72)

Asteroseismic analysis of variable hot subdwarf stars observed with TESS. I. The mean g-mode period spacings in hot subdwarf B stars
Four Jovian planets around low-luminosity giant stars observed by the EXPRESS and PPPS
Looking into the cradle of the grave: J22564-5910, a young post-merger hot subdwarf?
Pulsating hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs observed with TESS: I. Asteroseismology of the GW Vir stars RX J2117+3412, HS 2324+3944, NGC 6905, NGC 1501, NGC 2371, and K 1-16
Mode identification in three pulsating hot subdwarfs observed with TESS satellite
Observed binary populations reflect the Galactic history. Explaining the orbital period - mass ratio relation in wide hot subdwarf binaries
PHL 417: a zirconium-rich pulsating hot subdwarf (V366 Aquarid) discovered in K2 data
TOI-481 b and TOI-892 b: Two Long-period Hot Jupiters from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
About the existence of warm H-rich pulsating white dwarfs
Ensemble asteroseismology of pulsating B-type stars in NGC 6910
Hot subdwarf wind models with accurate abundances I. Hydrogen dominated stars HD 49798 and BD+18 degrees 2647
K2-161b: a low-density super-Neptune on an eccentric orbit
K2-287 b: An Eccentric Warm Saturn Transiting a G-dwarf
TESS first look at evolved compact pulsators Discovery and asteroseismic probing of the g-mode hot B subdwarf pulsator EC 21494-7018
The EREBOS project: Investigating the effect of substellar and low-mass stellar companions on late stellar evolution Survey, target selection, and atmospheric parameters
The orbital period-mass ratio relation of wide sdB plus MS binaries and its application to the stability of RLOF
A hot Saturn on an eccentric orbit around the giant star K2-132
A new look inside planetary nebula LoTr 5: a long-period binary with hints of a possible third component
Composite hot subdwarf binaries - I. The spectroscopically confirmed sdB sample
HE 0430–2457: a post-merger extremely low-mass pre-white dwarf in a wide binary posing as an extreme horizontal branch star
K2-232 b: a transiting warm Saturn on an eccentric P=11.2 d orbit around a V=9.9 star
K2-237 b and K2-238 b: discovery and characterization of two new transiting hot Jupiters from K2
Photometric long-term variations and superhump occurrence in the Classical Nova RR Pictoris
Pulsations and eclipse-time analysis of HWVir
Constraining Roche-Lobe Overflow Models Using the Hot-Subdwarf Wide Binary Population
K2-113: a dense hot-Jupiter transiting a solar analogue
News From The Erebos Project
The effects of near-core convective shells on the gravity modes of the subdwarf B pulsator KIC 10553698A
The orbits of subdwarf-B plus main-sequence binaries III. The period-eccentricity distribution
An Independent Discovery of Two Hot Jupiters from the K2 Mission
Long-term eclipse timing of white dwarf binaries: an observational hint of a magnetic mechanism at work
Looking on the bright side: The story of AA Doradus as revealed by its cool companion
New spectroscopic binary companions of giant stars and updated metallicity distribution for binary systems
Extensive study of HD 25558, a long-period double-lined binary with two SPB components
Orbital solutions of eight close sdB binaries and constraints on the nature of the unseen companions
X-shooting HW Vir
Fundamental stellar and accretion disc parameters of the eclipsing binary DQ Velorum
An asteroseismic study of the O9V star HD 46202 from CoRoT space-based photometry
An excerpt of X-shooter operations at Paranal
AT LAST-A V777 HER PULSATOR IN THE KEPLER FIELD
CoRoT high-precision photometry of the B0.5 IV star HD 51756
First Kepler results on compact pulsators - VI. Targets in the final half of the survey phase
Whole Earth Telescope observations of the subdwarf B star KPD 1930+2752: a rich, short-period pulsator in a close bi
2M1938+4603: a rich, multimode pulsating sdB star with an eclipsing dM companion observed with Kepler
Detection of frequency spacings in the young O-type binary HD 46149 from CoRoT photometry
Deviations from a uniform period spacing of gravity modes in a massive star
First Kepler results on compact pulsators - I. Survey target selection and the first pulsators
Multicolour photometry of EO Ceti (PB 8783)
Periodic mass-loss episodes due to an oscillation mode with variable amplitude in the hot supergiant HD 50064
Synthetic pulsational line profile variations
Time-resolved high-resolution spectroscopy of the pulsating sdB star QQ Vir (PG1325+101)
Towards ensemble asteroseismology of the young open clusters chi Persei and NGC 6910
Close binary and other variable stars in the solar-age Galactic open cluster M 67
Interpreting the line-profile variations of subdwarf B pulsators: the case of PG 1336-018 (NY Virginis)
Post-AGB stars with hot circumstellar dust: binarity of the low-amplitude pulsators
Detection of line-profile variations in high-resolution VLT/UVES spectroscopy of the subdwarf B pulsator PG 1336018 (NY Virginis)
Evolutionary and Observational Constraints on PG 1336-018 (NY Vir)
Multisite Multicolour Photometric Observations of the Nonradially Pulsating SdB Star Balloon 090100001: A White Light Frequency Analysis
Orbital Effects in VLT-UVES Spectra of AA Dor and NY Vir
The pulsation modes of the pre-white dwarf PG 1159-035
An evolutionary study of the pulsating subdwarf B eclipsing binary PG 1336-018 (NY Virginis)
An old puzzle in a new light: PG 1336-018
The binary properties of the pulsating subdwarf B eclipsing binary PG 1336-018 (NY Virginis)
The ongoing 2005 - 2006 campaign on Beta Cephei stars in NGC 6910 and Chi Persei (NGC 884)
Pg 0014+067: Wet Observations and a New Twist to the Sdb Star Puzzle
Whole Earth Telescope Observations of PG 0014+067 - A Key Pulsating Subdwarf B Star
Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the Pulsating Subdwarf B Star PG 0014+067
PB8783 Revisited
Observations of the pulsating subdwarf B star Feige 48: Constraints on evolution and companions
Whole Earth Telescope observations of the pulsating hot white dwarf PG 1707+427
PG 1605+072 in WET XCov22: Support for the Multi Site Spectroscopic Telescope
Extension of the DBV White Dwarf Instability Strip: PG0112+104 Pulsates

ConferencePaper (1)

We Like it Bright: GALEX J06398+5156

Proyecto (4)

ALMA-CONICYT 2016 “BECA ADELINA for graduate student participation at international and national conferences”
The formation and persistence of nova shells
SOCHIAS/ALMA/CONICYT grant “BECA ADELINA” for graduate student participation at international and national conferences
The influence of close substellar companions on late stellar evolution
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Maja Vuckovic

Associate Professor

Facultad de Ciencias

Instituto de Física y Astronomía

Valparaíso, Chile

8
Rafael Brahm

Profesor Asistente

Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

8
Markus Rabus

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Matemática y Física Aplicadas

Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción

Concepción, Chile

6
James Jenkins

Associate Professor

Astronomy

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

4
Andres Jordan

Profesor

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

2
Sergio Vásquez

Encargado de Programa de Cultura Astronómica

Dirección de Educación

Museo Interactivo Mirador

Santiago, Chile

2
Monica Zorotovic

Profesor Adjunto

Instituto de Física y Astronomía

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

Valparaiso, Chile

1
José Vines

Postdoc

Instituto de Astronomía

Universidad Católica del Norte

Antofagasta, Chile

1
Daniela Barria

Profesor

Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura

Universidad Central de Chile

La Serena, Chile

1
Matthias Schreiber

Profesor Titular

Departamento de Fisica

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Claudio Caceres

Assistant professor

Ciencias Físicas

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

1
Ronald Mennickent

Full professor

Astronomy

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Linda Schmidtobreick

staff astronomer

Sciops

ESO

Vitacura, Chile