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Marilyn Cruces

Assistant Professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Radio transients such as pulsars and fast radio bursts. Development and commissioning of new radio facilities and instruments, sustainable radio telescopes, big data single-dish and interferometric radioastronomy from cm to sub-mm.

Educación

  •  Radio astronomy, University of Bonn. Alemania, 2021
  •  Astrophysics, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2016
  •  Astronomy, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2010

Experiencia Académica

  •   Scientific Staff Full Time

    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FUR RADIOASTRONOMIE

    Bonn, Alemania

    2021 - 2023

  •   Doctoral Researcher Part Time

    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FUR RADIOASTRONOMIE

    Bonn, Alemania

    2016 - 2020

  •   ALMA Fellow Full Time

    EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

    Alemania

    2023 - 2024

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Physics

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - 2016

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Faculty of Physics and Mathematics

    Concepción, Chile

    2013 - 2013

  •   Summer internship Other

    ASTRON

    Dwingeloo, Holanda

    2015 - 2015

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    School of Engineering

    Santiago, Chile

    2024 - At present

  •   Visiting Scientist Other

    Shanghai Observatory

    Shanghai, Chile

    2025 - 2026

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2024 - At present

  •   ALMA Fellow Full Time

    European Southern Observatory

    Alemania

    2023 - 2024

  •   Scientific Staff Full Time

    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

    Bonn, Alemania

    2021 - 2023

Formación de Capital Humano


Current supervision:

1) PhD students: Luis Rodríguez (UC), Benjamín Ruz (UC)
2) MSc. student: Josefina Vera (UC), Cristóbal Braga (UC), Etienne Cabiac (UC), Vicente Florez (UC), Nicolás Seguel (UC)
3) Undergraduate students: Lucas Becker (UC), Antonia Merdanevic (UC), Martín Figueroa (UC), Ignacio Wang (UC), Jamil Arana (UC), Santiago Arntz (UC), Ariel Peñailillo (UC), Macarena Torres (UNAB), Matilde Calderón (UC), José Sandoval (UC), Nicolás Bermedo (UC), Nicolás Allende (UC)
4) Exchange Students: Juliet Bouclet (INSA Nancy, France)
5) Engineers: Javier Mora (Electrical Engineering)

Former supervision:
1) MSc. students: Pranav Limaye (U. Bonn, Germany, 12/2022-09/2023)
1) Undergraduate students: Irma Sáez (USACH, 01/2026), Sebastián Salgado (USM 01/2026), María Espinoza-Dupouy (UCH, 08/2025), Cristobal Braga (UCH, 12/2024)
2) Exchange students: Fabian Torres (Texas A&M University, USA)
3) Internship students: Josefina Vera (01-03/2024, Joint ALMA Observatory), Emiliano Bermúdez (08-12/2024), Nayab Gohar (U. Bonn, Germany, 05-06/2023)


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Head of Max Planck Partner Group

    MAX PLANCK SOCIETY

    Alemania, 2024

    Appointed by Max Planck Society as an outstanding scientist with international recognition to lead a research group from the Max Planck Society at the Pontificia University of Chile.

  •   Outstanding Junior Scientist

    MAX PLANCK SOCIETY

    Alemania, 2019

    Appointed by Max Planck Society as an outstanding junior scientist to attend the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

  •   ALMA Fellow

    EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

    Alemania, 2023

    Awarded the ALMA Fellowship by the European Southern Observatory to conduct novel research on time-domain astronomy using the ALMA radio telescope in phased array mode.

  •   Global Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action seal of excellence

    European Commission Horizon Europe

    Alemania, 2022

    Global Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action seal of excellence to postdoctoral fellowship proposal.

  •   Maximum distinction for master degree in astrophysics

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Chile, 2016

    Maximum distinction for master degree in astrophysics.

  •   Grant from the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School

    UNIVERSITY OF BONN

    Alemania, 2018

    Grant from the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy to attend international conferences. Two times: 2018 and 2019.

  •   Grant from the International Astronomical Union

    International Astronomical Union

    Francia, 2016

    Grant from the International Astronomical Union to attend the XV Latin American IAU Meeting.

  •   PIFI Visiting Scientist

    CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

    China, 2025

    Awarded Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Science based at the Shanghai Observatory


 

Article (21)

Constraints on the X-ray-to-radio fluence ratio of FRB 20240114A

Eppel, F; Krumpe M.; Limaye, P; Intrarat, N; Wongphechauxsorn, J; Cruces, M; Herrmann, W; Jankowski F.; Jaroenjittichai P.; Spitler, LG; et al.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Astronomy and Astrophysics  (2025)

FRB 20121102A monitoring: Updated periodicity in the L band

Braga, CA; Cruces, M; Cassanelli T.; Espinoza-Dupouy, MC; Rodriguez L.; Spitler, LG; Vera-Casanova, J; Limaye, P

Article ISI SCOPUS
Astronomy and Astrophysics  (2025)

Observing radio transients with Phased ALMA: Pulses from the Galactic Centre magnetar

Vera-Casanova, J; Cruces, M; Liu K.; Wongphechauxsorn, J; Braga, CA; Kramer M.; Torne P.; Limaye, P; Espinoza-Dupouy, MC; Rodriguez L.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Astronomy and Astrophysics  (2025)

Single-pulse Morphology of PSR J1935+1616 (B1933+16) Based on Archival Data from FAST

Tian, RW; Zhao, RS; Cruces, M; Liu H.; Li D.; Wang P.; Niu, CH; Gong, BP; Miao, C-C; Zhu X.; et al.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Astrophysical Journal  (2025)

Contemporaneous X-Ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A

Cook, Amanda M.; Scholz, Paul; Pearlman, Aaron B.; Abbott, Thomas C.; Gaensler, B. M.; Dong, Fengqiu Adam; Michilli, Daniele; Eadie, Gwendolyn; Kaspi, Victoria M.; Stairs, Ingrid; et al.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Astrophysical Journal  (2024)

Resource-aware research on Universe and Matter: call-to-action in digital transformation

Bruers, Ben; Demleitner, Markus; Duckeck, Guenter; Dueren, Michael; Eich, Niclas; Ensslin, Torsten; Erdmann, Johannes; Erdmann, Martin; Fackeldey, Peter; Felder, Christian; et al.

Article ISI
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS  (2024)

Arecibo and FAST timing follow-up of 12 millisecond pulsars discovered in Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey

Miao, C. C.; Niu, J. R.; Yuan, J. P.; Xue, M. Y.; Cameron, A. D.; Champion, D. J.; Chen, Y. T.; Chi, M. M.; Cheng, X. F.; Dang, S. J.; et al.

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2023)

Magnetic field reversal in the turbulent environment around a repeating fast radio burst

Anna-Thomas, Reshma; Connor, Liam; Dai, Shi; Beniamini, Paz; Yang, Yuan -Pei; Zhang, Yong-Kun; Niu, Chen-hui; Duan, Ran; Filipovic, Miroslav D.; Hobbs, George; et al.

Article ISI
SCIENCE  (2023)

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

Niu, CH; Aggarwal K.; Law, C. J.; Zhang, YK; Ocker, S. K.; Yao, J-M; Wan, P.; Niino, Y.; Bochenek, C.; Connor, L; et al.

Article ISI
NATURE  (2022)

The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B Are Dominated by the Host Galaxy

Koch Ocker, Stella; McKee, James W.

Article ISI
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL  (2022)

A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source



Article ISI
NATURE  (2021)

A search for pulsar companions around low-mass white dwarfs

Athanasiadis, Tilemachos M.; Berezina, Marina; Antoniadis, John; Champion, David J.; Spitler, Laura

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2021)

FAST early pulsar discoveries: Effelsberg follow-up

Graikou, E.; Krco, M.; CRAFTS Collaboration

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2021)

Repeating behaviour of FRB 121102: periodicity, waiting times, and energy distribution

Spitler, L. G.; Scholz, P; Seymour, A.; Gouiffes, C.; Hilmarsson, G. H.; Munjal, S.

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2021)

A Fast Radio Burst Discovered in FAST Drift Scan Survey

Zhang, Bing; Lorimer, Duncan; Cameron, Andrew; Han, Jun; Shi, Dai; Yuan, Mao; Cao, Shuyun; Feng, Li; Gan, Hengqian; Gao, Long; et al.

Article ISI
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS  (2020)

An in-depth investigation of 11 pulsars discovered by FAST

Corban, G. Jacobs; Kaczmarek, J. F.; Tao, Z. Z.; Xu, R. X.; Zhang, S. B.; Zhou, S. Q.; Qiu, K. P.

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2020)

High-cadence observations and variable spin behaviour of magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607 after its outburst

Champion, David; Cognard, Ismael; Jankowski, Fabian; Keith, Michael J.; Kouveliotou, Chryssa; O'Connor, Brendan; Parthasarathy, Aditya; Porayko, Nataliya; Stappers, Ben W.; van der Horst, Alexander J.

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2020)

Observing superluminous supernovae and long gamma-ray bursts as potential birthplaces of repeating fast radio bursts

Athanasiadis, T. M.; Barr, E.; Deng X.; Sathyanarayanan, S. P.; Krishnan, V. Venkatraman; Wieching, G; Wucknitz, O.

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2020)

Simultaneous X-Ray and Radio Observations of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ∼ 180916.J0158+65

Kaspi, V. M.; Naidu, A.; Pearlman, A. B.; Bandura, K. M.; Bhardwaj, M; Cassanelli T.; Chawla P.; Good, D. C.; Josephy A.; Keimpema, A.; et al.

Article ISI
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL  (2020)

Five new real-time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST

Jameson, A.; Bateman, T.; Green, A. J.; Hunstead, R.; Lower, M. E.; Price, D. C.; Temby, D.; Chang, S. -W.; Onken, C. A.

Article ISI
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2019)

On the weak magnetic field of millisecond pulsars: does it decay before accretion?

Cruces, M

Article ISI SCOPUS
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY  (2019)

Correction (1)

A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source (vol 598, pg 267, 2021)

Zhang, X. X.; Zhang, Y. K.; Tang, N. Y.; Gajjar, V; Lorimer, D. R.; Werthimer, D.; Wang, F. Y.; Zhi, Q. J.

Correction ISI
NATURE  (2021)

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Tassilo Reisenegger

Profesor Titular

Physics

Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación

Santiago, Chile

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Marilyn Cruces

Assistant Professor

Astroengineering Center UC

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile