
Maja Vuckovic
Associate Professor
Instituto de Física y Astronomía
Valparaíso, Chile
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
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Astrophysics, KU Leuven, Belgium. Bélgica, 2009
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Astrophysics, Iowa State University. Estados Unidos, 2005
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Astronomy , UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE. Serbia, 2001
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Associate professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO
Facultad de Ciencias
Valparaiso, Chile
2014 - At present
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Fellow Full Time
ESO
Santiago, Chile
2010 - 2014
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Post Doc Full Time
KU Leuven
Faculty of Science
Leuven, Bélgica
2009 - 2010
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PhD Student Full Time
KU Leuven
Faculty of Science
Leuven, Chile
2005 - 2009
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Master Student Full Time
Iowa State University
Ames, Estados Unidos
2001 - 2005
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Associate Professor Full Time
Instituto de Física y Astronomía
Valparaíso, Chile
2014 - At present
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Fellow Full Time
ESO
Santiago, Chile
2010 - 2014
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Post Doc Full Time
KU Leuven
Leuven, Bélgica
2009 - 2010
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PhD Student Full Time
KU Leuven
Leuven, Chile
2005 - 2009
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Master Student Full Time
Iowa State University
Ames, Estados Unidos
2001 - 2005
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.
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
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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.
We Like it Bright: GALEX J06398+5156 |
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 |

Matthias Schreiber
Profesor Titular
Departamento de Fisica
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Valparaiso, Chile

Monica Zorotovic
Profesor Adjunto
Instituto de Física y Astronomía
UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO
Valparaiso, Chile

Maja Vuckovic
Associate Professor
Facultad de Ciencias
Instituto de Física y Astronomía
Valparaíso, Chile

Rafael Brahm
Profesor Asistente
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias
Universidad Adolfo Ibánez
Santiago, Chile

Sergio Vásquez
Encargado de Programa de Cultura Astronómica
Dirección de Educación
Museo Interactivo Mirador
Santiago, Chile

Daniela Barria
Profesor
Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Universidad Central de Chile
La Serena, Chile

Markus Rabus
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Matemática y Física Aplicadas
Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción
Concepción, Chile