Man

Lucas Alejo Cieza Gonzalez

Full Professor

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


The structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks. Planet and star formation. Cosmic Dust Laboratory.

Educación

  •  Astronomy, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Estados Unidos, 2007
  •  Astronomy, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Estados Unidos, 2004
  •  Space Sciences, FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Estados Unidos, 2002

Experiencia Académica

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES

    Engineering and Science

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - 2019

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    Engineering and Sciences

    Engineering and Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2019 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Sagan Fellow Full Time

    University of Hawaii at Manoa

    Honolulu, Estados Unidos

    2010 - 2013

  •   Spitzer Fellow Full Time

    University of Hawaii at Manoa

    Honolulu, Chile

    2007 - 2010

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    Universidad Diego Portales

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - 2015

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    Universidad Diego Portales

    Chile

    2015 - 2019

  •   Director PhD program in Astrophysics Full Time

    Universidad Diego Portales

    Chile

    2019 - A la fecha

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    Universidad Diego Portales

    Santiago, Chile

    2019 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Supervisor of geology student Grace Batalla from Universidad de Chile, who is finishing her undergraduate thesis in the UDP Cosmic Dust Laboratory measuring the infrared opacities of different types of meteorites.

Primary Ph.D. Supervisor of Dary Ruiz-Rodriguez's thesis ``Study of Class I, Class II and Class III objects with optical and submillimeter interferometry", 2015--2018, National Australian University, Australia. After graduation, she received the prestigious Gruber and Jansky Fellowships:

https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann18025/
https://science.nrao.edu/opportunities/postdoctoral-programs/current-jansky-fellows

Co-supervisor of Ph.D.student Santiago Orcajo, ``Studying the disk regulation of angular momentum in pre-main-sequence stars", 2016--, La Plata National University, Argentina

Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Valentin Christiaens, ``Imaging interactions between transition disks and exoplanets", 2015-2018, University of Liege, Belgium

Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Geoffrey Mathews, ``Circumstellar Disks at 5 Myr: A Multiwavelength Survey for Gas and Dust in Upper Scorpius", 2010-2012, University of Hawaii, USA

Member of Master thesis committee, Sebastian Marino, ``Dust traps and warps in transitional protoplanetary disks", 2014-2015, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Faculty adviser of postdoctoral researcher David Principe, 2014--2016, now scientific staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Faculty adviser postdoctoral researcher Dr. Koraljka Muzic, 2015--2016, now scientific staff at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Faculty co-adviser of postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alice Zurlo, 2015--2017, now faculty at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

Faculty co-adviser of postdoctoral Dr. Gesa Bertrang, 2015--2017, now a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany.


Difusión y Transferencia


A sample of public talks presented given by Prof. Cieza can be found here (in Spanish):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ho6VS9dndk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJbjpd-1VDo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjqCvsjtzpA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F71JmHQYAdw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QTDRKN_FI


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Sagan Fellowship

    NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

    Estados Unidos, 2010

    The Sagan Fellowships support outstanding recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research that is broadly related to the science goals of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program. The primary goal of missions within this program is to discover and characterize planetary systems and Earth-like planets around nearby stars.

  •   Spitzer Fellowship

    NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

    Estados Unidos, 2007

    The Spitzer Space Telescope Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (now a part of the Hubble Fellowship program) provided an opportunity for highly qualified recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research with the goal of enhancing the overall scientific return from the Spitzer mission. This was accomplished through proposals to conduct new Spitzer observations, exploit the Spitzer archive, or through theoretical investigations.

  •   Harrington Dissertation Fellowship

    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

    Estados Unidos, 2006

    The Harrington Dissertation Fellowship is the highest award that can be made to a continuing graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin.


 

Article (61)

Evidence for disc regulation in the lowest mass stars of the young stellar cluster NGC 2264
Looking Deep into the Rosette Nebula's Heart: The (Sub)stellar Content of the Massive Young Cluster NGC 2244
No Clear, Direct Evidence for Multiple Protoplanets Orbiting LkCa 15: LkCa 15 bcd are Likely Inner Disk Signals
The ice composition in the disk around V883 Ori revealed by its stellar outburst
The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA) - I: project description and continuum images at 28 au resolution
The Ophiuchus DIsk Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA): Disk Dust Mass Distributions across Protostellar Evolutionary Classes
ALMA survey of circumstellar discs in the young stellar cluster IC 348
DZ Chamaeleontis: a bona fide photoevaporating disc
GPI Spectroscopy of the Mass, Age, and Metallicity Benchmark Brown Dwarf HD 4747 B
The ALMA early science view of FUor/EXor objects - V. Continuum disc masses and sizes
A ring-like concentration of mm-sized particles in Sz 91
A COMPACT CONCENTRATION OF LARGE GRAINS IN THE HD 142527 PROTOPLANETARY DUST TRAP
A SCUBA-2 850 MICRON SURVEY OF CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS IN THE lambda ORIONIS CLUSTER
A SCUBA-2 850-mu m survey of protoplanetary discs in the IC 348 cluster
ACCRETION KINEMATICS THROUGH THE WARPED TRANSITION DISK IN HD 142527 FROM RESOLVED CO(6-5) OBSERVATIONS
CO GAS INSIDE THE PROTOPLANETARY DISK CAVITY IN HD142527: DISK STRUCTURE FROM ALMA
GAS INSIDE THE 97 AU CAVITY AROUND THE TRANSITION DISK Sz 91
Improving signal-to-noise in the direct imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks with MLOCI
INFRARED AND RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF A SMALL GROUP OF PROTOSTELLAR OBJECTS IN THE MOLECULAR CORE, L1251-C
MAPPING THE SHORES OF THE BROWN DWARF DESERT. IV. OPHIUCHUS
ON THE NATURE OF THE TERTIARY COMPANION TO FW TAU: ALMA CO OBSERVATIONS AND SED MODELING
Probing the final stages of protoplanetary disk evolution with ALMA
THE EARLY ALMA VIEW OF THE FU Ori OUTBURST SYSTEM
THE FIRST SCIENCE RESULTS FROM SPHERE: DISPROVING THE PREDICTED BROWN DWARF AROUND V471 TAU
The inner environment of Z Canis Majoris: High-contrast imaging polarimetry with NaCo
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: evidence for radiative heating in Serpens MWC 297 and its influence on local star formation
YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE GOULD BELT
THREE WIDE PLANETARY-MASS COMPANIONS TO FW TAU, ROXs 12, AND ROXs 42B
A HERSCHEL SEARCH FOR COLD DUST IN BROWN DWARF DISKS: FIRST RESULTS
A SCUBA-2 850-mu m survey of protoplanetary discs in the Sigma Orionis cluster
SPARSE APERTURE MASKING OBSERVATIONS OF THE FL Cha PRE-TRANSITIONAL DISK
THE HERSCHEL DIGIT SURVEY OF WEAK-LINE T TAURI STARS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DISK EVOLUTION AND DISSIPATION
THE LUMINOSITIES OF PROTOSTARS IN THE SPITZER c2d AND GOULD BELT LEGACY CLOUDS
A HERSCHEL SURVEY OF COLD DUST IN DISKS AROUND BROWN DWARFS AND LOW-MASS STARS
PLANETS AROUND LOW-MASS STARS (PALMS). I. A SUBSTELLAR COMPANION TO THE YOUNG M DWARF 1RXS J235133.3+312720
SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY OBSERVATIONS OF THE RX J1633.9-2442 TRANSITION DISK: EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE PLANETS IN THE MAKING
THE NATURE OF TRANSITION CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS. II. SOUTHERN MOLECULAR CLOUDS
THE NATURE OF TRANSITION CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS. III. PERSEUS, TAURUS, AND AURIGA
THE TW Hya DISK AT 870 μm: COMPARISON OF CO AND DUST RADIAL STRUCTURES
Transition disks: four candidates for ongoing giant planet formation in Ophiuchus (Research Note)
PROTOPLANETARY DISK MASSES IN IC348: A RAPID DECLINE IN THE POPULATION OF SMALL DUST GRAINS AFTER 1 Myr
Protoplanetary Disks and Their Evolution
THE SPITZER SURVEY OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS IN THE GOULD BELT. III. A MULTI-WAVELENGTH VIEW OF CORONA AUSTRALIS
THE SPITZER SURVEY OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS IN THE GOULD BELT. IV. LUPUS V AND VI OBSERVED WITH IRAC AND MIPS
A SPITZER c2d LEGACY SURVEY TO IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERIZE DISKS WITH INNER DUST HOLES
HERSCHEL OBSERVATIONS OF THE T CHA TRANSITION DISK: CONSTRAINING THE OUTER DISK PROPERTIES
THE SPITZER c2d SURVEY OF WEAK-LINE T TAURI STARS. III. THE TRANSITION FROM PRIMORDIAL DISKS TO DEBRIS DISKS
The spatial distribution of star formation in the solar neighbourhood: do all stars form in dense clusters?
PRIMORDIAL CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS IN BINARY SYSTEMS: EVIDENCE FOR REDUCED LIFETIMES
THE SPITZER SURVEY OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS IN THE GOULD BELT. II. THE CEPHEUS FLARE OBSERVED WITH IRAC AND MIPS
The Spitzer Gould Belt Survey of Large Nearby Interstellar Clouds: Discovery of a Dense Embedded Cluster in the Serpens-Aquila Rift
The Spitzer Survey of Interstellar Clouds in the Gould Belt. I. IC 5146 Observed With IRAC and MIPS
The Masses of Transition Circumstellar Disks: Observational Support for Photoevaporation Models
The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. V. Chamaeleon II Observed with IRAC
The Spitzer c2d survey of nearby dense cores. IV. Revealing the embedded cluster in B59
Testing the Disk Regulation Paradigm with Spitzer Observations. I. Rotation Periods of Pre–Main‐Sequence Stars in the IC 348 Cluster
Testing the Disk Regulation Paradigm with Spitzer Observations. II. A Clear Signature of Star‐Disk Interaction in NGC 2264 and the Orion Nebula Cluster
The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores. II. Discovery of a Low-Luminosity Object in the "Evolved Starless Core" L1521F
Evidence for J- and H-Band Excess in Classical T Tauri Stars and the Implications for Disk Structure and Estimated Ages
Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to NGC 4214, UGC 685, and UGC 5456
NATURE OF TRANSITION CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS. I. THE OPHIUCHUS MOLECULAR CLOUD

ConferencePaper (3)

The Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks: An Infrared and Submillimeter View
IMAGING OF THE DUST GAP INTO THE TRANSITIONAL DISK RXJ1633.9-2242 (OPH 32)
TRANSITION CIRCUMNSTELLAR DISKS IN LUPUS

Errata (1)

THE SPITZER SURVEY OF INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS IN THE GOULD BELT. VI. THE AURIGA-CALIFORNIA MOLECULAR CLOUD OBSERVED WITH IRAC AND MIPS (vol 786, pg 37, 2014)

Proyecto (6)

Starting the Astronomy PhD program at Universidad Diego Portales
Constraining Planet-formation in the ALMA Era
Establishing the First Cosmic Dust Laboratory in Chile
A new faculty member for the UDP Astronomy Nucleus
A research fellow for the new astronomy group at Universidad Diego Portales
New insights in the formation of low-mass stars and brown dwarf
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Matthias Schreiber

Profesor Titular

Departamento de Fisica

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Jorge Cuadra

Académico

Departamento de Ciencias

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Viña del Mar, Chile

1
Andres Jordan

Profesor

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Matías Montesinos

Professor

Física

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

13
Simon Casassus

Profesor Titular

Astronomía

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

4
Pablo Román

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ingeniería Informática

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

9
Claudio Caceres

Associate Professor

Ciencias Físicas

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

4
Amelia Bayo

Full Professor

Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia, Facultado de Ciencias

Valparaiso, Chile

73
Lucas Cieza

Full Professor

Engineering and Science

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

1
Alice Zurlo

Profesor asistente

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago , Chile

3
Johan Olofsson

Profesor asistente

Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

Valparaiso, Chile

2
Karla Peña

Profesor Asistente

Vicerectoría de Investigación, Innovación y Postgrado

Universidad de Antofagasta

Antofagasta, Chile

8
Sebastian Perez

Profesor Asociado

Departamento de Física

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Gijs Mulders

Assistant professor

Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Peñalolen, Chile