
Roberto Jose Javier Assef Trebilcock
Profesor Titular
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile
My research has involved the study of diverse aspects of AGN, such as mid-IR identification, BH mass measurements and SED Modeling, of them as well as of their host galaxies, with emphasis on AGN-dominated Hyper-Luminous Galaxies.
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Astronomy, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2010
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Astronomy, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2007
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Astronomy, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2005
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Profesor Asistente (Assistant Professor) Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES
Facultad de Ingeniería
Santiago, Chile
2013 - 2017
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NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow Full Time
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Division 32
Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos
2010 - 2013
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Profesor Asociado (Associate Professor) Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias
Santiago, Chile
2017 - 2020
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Profesor Titular (Full Professor) Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias
Santiago, Chile
2020 - A la fecha
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Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos
2010 - 2013
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Assistant Professor Full Time
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile
2013 - 2016
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Associate Professor Full Time
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile
2016 - 2020
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Full Professor Full Time
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile
2020 - A la fecha
Graduate Student Mentoring
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Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2019-present
Student: Dejene Zewdie
Project: Environments of Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2021-present
Student: Trystan Lambert
Project: The environment of a z=6.9 quasar
Co-Mentoring of Undergraduate Student
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Place: The Ohio State University
Year: 2009-2010
Student: Nathaniel R. Ross
Project: The UV-Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distribution of a z = 1.7 Quasar Host Galaxy
Summer Undergraduate Students
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Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2015
Student: Daniela Zúñiga (undergraduate student at MIT)
Project: Measuring Black Hole Masses of Lensed Quasars
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2018
Student: Logan Sellen (undergraduate student at University of Arkansas)
Project: Optical Photometry of Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies
Teaching
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Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2014, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2014, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2015, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2015, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2016, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2016, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2017, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2017, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2018, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2018, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2019, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2019, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2020, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2020, 2nd Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Formación General
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Year: 2021, 1st Semester
Course: "El Sistema Solar y la Búsqueda de Otros Mundos"
Program: Diploma de Honor en Astronomía
Public Talks
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Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Date: October, 2015
Title: "Estudiando Galaxias con Núcleos Activos Usando el Telescopio WISE" (Studying AGN using WISE)
Place: Chile Week Venue, Beijing, China
Date: August 2016
Title: "Joint Astronomical Projects Between Chile and China"
Place: Universidad Diego Portales
Date: November 2016
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Universidad de Antofagasta
Date: May 2017
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago
Date: October 2017
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Date: November 2017
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Universidad Autónoma, Temuco
Date: March 2018
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco
Date: March 2018
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: British High School
Date: October 2018
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Planetario de Santiago
Date: December 2018
Title: "Cómo Cazar un Agujero Negro" (How to Hunt a Black Hole)
Place: Parque Metropolitano de Santiago
Date: January 2019
Title: "ALMA y los Agujeros Negros Supermasivos Activos Extremos" (ALMA and the Extreme Active SMBHs)
Other
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Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía (SOCHIAS)
Board of Directors Member - Secretary - 2015-2016
Ethics Committee Member - since 2018
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Latin-american European Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology Fellowship
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2005
Fellowship to do undergraduate level research at the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya for 1 semester under supervision of Dr. Enrique Gaztañaga.
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Presidential Fellowship
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Estados Unidos, 2009
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. The Presidential Fellowship provides financial support so that each Presidential fellow may devote one year of full-time study to the completion of his or her dissertation or degree project unimpeded by other duties. Competitions are held autumn and spring semesters.
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NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Chile, 2010
Three year fellowship for postdoctoral research at a NASA Laboratory. In this case, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Group Achievement Award
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Estados Unidos, 2016
Group achievement award provided by NASA to the "WISE Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies Team".
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Líderes Jovenes 2017
DIARIO EL MERCURIO
Chile, 2017
Selected as one of the 100 young leaders (with 35 years or less) of the country.
WISE DETECTIONS OF KNOWN QSOs AT REDSHIFTS GREATER THAN SIX (vol 778, pg 113, 2013) |
THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER NGC 5286. II. VARIABLE STARS (vol 139, pg 357, 2010) |
Mid-IR Selected AGN: Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies and Luminous Obscured Transients |
INFRARED STUDIES OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND THEIR ROLE IN GALAXY EVOLUTION |
UNAB-UDP Joint Seminar Series - ALMA-CONICYT |
The Most Luminous Galaxies in the Universe |
TRACING SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE GROWTH WITH OFFSET AND DUAL AGN |
A Research Fellow for the New Astronomy Group at Univesidad Diego Portales - ALMA-CONICYT |
Mid-Infrared Selected AGN from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) |
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship |
Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name? |

Gaspar Galaz
Profesor Titular, Director, Instituto de Astrofísica
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, FACULTAD DE FÍSICA, DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y ASTROFÍSICA
Santiago, Chile
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Márcio Catelan
Full Professor
Instituto de Astrofísica
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

Franz Bauer
Associate Professor
Instituto de Astrofisica
PONTIFICÍA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y ASTROFÍSICA
Santiago, Chile

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

Veronica Motta
Profesor Titular
Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia
Universidad de Valparaiso
Valparaíso, Chile

Eduardo Ibar
Profesor Asociado
Instituto de Física y Astronomía
Universidad de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile

Patricia Arevalo
Profesor Adjunto (Associate Professor)
Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia
Universidad de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile

Manuel Aravena
Full Professor
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile

Roberto Assef
Profesor Titular
Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias
Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago, Chile

Jorge González
Profesor asistente
Facultad de Física
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Médéric Boquien
Académico
Vicerrectoría de Investigación
UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA
Antofagasta, Chile

Ezequiel Treister
Associate Professor
Institute of Astrophysics
Pontificia Universidad Catolica
Santiago, Chile

Raphael Gobat
Profesor Asociado
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile