Tassilo Andreas Reisenegger von Oepen
Profesor Titular
Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
Santiago, Chile
High-Energy Astrophysics; Neutron Stars; Theoretical Astrophysics; Magnetohydrodynamics; Cosmology
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Physics, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Estados Unidos, 1993
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Physics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1988
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Physics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1987
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Full Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Physics
Santiago, Chile
2009 - 2019
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Associate Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Physics
Santiago, Chile
2002 - 2009
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Assistant Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Physics
Santiago, Chile
1996 - 2002
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Member (postdoctoral researcher) Full Time
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, Estados Unidos
1993 - 1995
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Visiting Scientist Full Time
MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FUR ASTROPHYSIK
Garching bei München, Alemania
2007 - 2007
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Visiting Scientist Full Time
EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY
Santiago, Chile
2006 - 2006
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Full Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION
Basic Sciences
Santiago, Chile
2020 - At present
Thesis supervision
- PhD theses:
1. Francisco Castillo (2017, U. de Chile – co-supervisor)
2. Javier Arenas (ongoing, P. U. Católica de Valparaíso - co-supervisor)
3. Sergio Flores (2012, PUC)
4. Rolando Dünner (2009 – co-supervisor, PUC)
- MS theses: 11 finished, incl. 2 co-supervisions (all but 1 at PUC)
- Undergraduate 1-semester “theses” (Prácticas de Licenciatura): 23 finished (all at PUC)
University teaching: Physics & Astronomy courses at undergraduate & graduate levels (1996-2020)
Administration work and leadership:
- Research coordinator, UMCE Dept. of Physics, 2020-present.
- Chilean representative in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium Board, 2015-2019.
- Undergraduate coordinator, PUC Institute of Astrophysics, 2015-2017.
- Director, PUC Dept./Institute of Astrophysics, 2020-2014.
- Director, MECESUP2 Grant PUC-0609 "Improvement, flexibilization & diversification of the PUC PhD program in Astrophysics & generation of links with Engineering" 2007-2010.
- Coordinator, PUC graduate program in Astrophysics, 2003-2006.
- Member, PUC Faculty of Physics graduate committee, 1996-98 & 2003-2006.
- Coordinator, PUC undergraduate program in Astronomy, and Member, Faculty of Physics undergraduate committee, 1999-2003, interim 2010.
- Several appearances in the media and 15 talks (at high schools, universities, and public halls in Santiago, Antofagasta, Arica, Valparaíso,Talca, and Panguipulli) about the LIGO detection of gravitational waves and its significance, February 2016-April 2017.
- 14 short outreach articles for the series “Tendencias de la Astronomía” on EMOL (online version of Chilean national newspaper El Mercurio; http://www.emol.com/especiales/2016/tecnologia/columnaastronomia/columnas.asp#!6), 2014-2019
- Co-organization of the First Chilean Fermi-LAT Masterclass for high-school students and teachers, PUC Campus San Joaquín, november 2016 (main organizer: Germán Gómez-Vargas).
- Many talks at elementary & high schools & national amateur astronomy meetings.
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Prize for Excellence in Teaching (PRED)
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2012
Prize awarded every two years to one member of each Academic Unit for their teaching performance.
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Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Estados Unidos, 2006
"Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications." (quote from AAAS web site) Note: I am no longer a member of AAAS, so my name is not listed on the web site (as explained there), but can be verified by contacting AAAS.
Constraining a possible time-variation of the gravitational constant through "gravitochemical heating" of neutron stars |
Order-of-magnitude physics of neutron stars Estimating their properties from first principles |