Man

Guillermo Blanc

Adjunct Professor

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Galaxy Evolution; Star Formation; Large Scale Structure and Cosmology

Educación

  •  Astronomy, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Estados Unidos, 2011
  •  Astronomía, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2006
  •  Ciencias, Astronomía, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2004

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2016

  •   Adjunct Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas

    Santiago, Chile

    2016 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science

    Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos

    2011 - 2015

  •   Graduate Research Assistant Full Time

    The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, TX, Estados Unidos

    2006 - 2011

  •   Visiting Astronomer Other

    Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science

    Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos

    2015 - 2016

  •   Staff Associate Astrononmer Full Time

    Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science

    La Serena, Chile

    2016 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


PhD Thesis Advisor:

- Expected 2021: Alessandro Razza, Universidad de Chile: "The PHANGS H-alpha Survey"
- 2020: José Utreras, Universidad de Chile: "Studying the multi-scale gas dynamics of disk galaxies through numerical simulations"

M.Sc. Thesis Advisor:

- Expected 2021: Victoria Perez, Universidad de Chile: "The Environmental Dependence of Ly-alpha Emission and Absorption in High-z Galaxies"
- 2019: Amber Roberts, Universidad de Chile: "C IV and Si IV Absorption in the Circumgalactic Medium of 2

Postdoctoral Researcher Supervisor:

- 2020 - today: Dr. Enrico Congiu, CATA-DAS Fellowship, Universidad de Chile
- 2016-2019: Dr. Antonios Katsianis, FONDECYT Postdoctorado, Universidad de Chile


Difusión y Transferencia


I'm involved in several outreach activities every year, including
public talks on Astronomy and Light Pollution. Below is a
curated list of relevant activities:

2019-today: Founder and President of the "Fundación Cielos de Chile"

2018: Scientific Advisor for museography in the Calle Larga 3D Planetarium Project, Calle Larga, Chile

2017-2018: Scientific Advisor for museography in the ``Tunel Universo'' center at the Museo Interactivo Mirador (MIM), Santiago, Chile

2015, 2016, 2017, 2018: Open Courses for the Public: ``Unveiling the Origin of Galaxies'', Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

2017: Invited Speaker at the ``First Light'' conference celebration the 100 year anniversary of the Mount Wilson 100'' Hooker Telescope, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA

2016: Invited Speaker at the ``Cielos Oscuros, Patrimonio de la Humanidad'' Seminar Municipality of Santiago Heritage Day Initiative, Santiago, Chile

2016: Invited Speaker at ``The Right to Dark Skies'' UNESCO Workshop, Mexico City

2012: Speaker at the Huntington Library Astronomy Lecture Series, Pasadena, CA, ``Bright Galaxies, Dark Universe, Part I: The Dawn of Galaxies''

2011: Volunteer English, Science, and Math Teacher at Junkiri School, Sakhu, Nepal, Teach English, Science, and Math at elementary school in rural Nepal.

2010: Conducted Open Telescope Nights, UT Austin Astronomy Outreach Program, Conducted open nights for the public at UT's 9'' Telescope



 

Article (25)

A Model for the Onset of Self-gravitation and Star Formation in Molecular Gas Governed by Galactic Forces. II. The Bottleneck to Collapse Set by Cloud-Environment Decoupling
Deep transfer learning for star cluster classification: I. application to the PHANGS-HST survey
Dynamical Equilibrium in the Molecular ISM in 28 Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
LATIS: The Ly alpha Tomography IMACS Survey
PHANGS CO Kinematics: Disk Orientations and Rotation Curves at 150 pc Resolution
SDSS IV MaNGA: Metallicity and ionisation parameter in local star-forming galaxies from Bayesian fitting to photoionisation models
The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
The headlight cloud in NGC 628: An extreme giant molecular cloud in a typical galaxy disk
The high-redshift SFR M relation is sensitive to the employed star formation rate and stellar mass indicators: towards addressing the tension between observations and simulations
The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies
The VIRUS-P Exploration of Nearby Galaxies (VENGA): the stellar populations and assembly of NGC 2903's bulge, bar, and outer disc
Ubiquitous velocity fluctuations throughout the molecular interstellar medium
When Gas Dynamics Decouples from Galactic Rotation: Characterizing ISM Circulation in Disk Galaxies
A Characteristic Mass Scale in the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies
An Evolving and Mass-dependent sigma sSFR-M(* )Relation for Galaxies
Assembling a RELIC at Redshift 1: Spectroscopic Observations of Galaxies in the RELICS Cluster SPT-CLJ0615-5746
Evidence for Shock-heated Gas in the Taffy Galaxies and Bridge from Optical Emission-line IFU Spectroscopy
Mapping Electron Temperature Variations across a Spiral Arm in NGC 1672
Mapping Metallicity Variations across Nearby Galaxy Disks
Rest-frame UV and optical emission line diagnostics of ionized gas properties: a test case in a star-forming knot of a lensed galaxy at z similar to 1.7
The Gas-Star Formation Cycle in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies. I. Assessment of Multi-scale Variations
HOW LYMAN ALPHA EMISSION DEPENDS ON GALAXY STELLAR MASS
AN ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR GALAXY METALLICITY: WHAT DO METALLICITY RELATIONS TELL US ABOUT STAR FORMATION AND OUTFLOW?
PANCHROMATIC ESTIMATION OF STAR FORMATION RATES IN BzK GALAXIES AT 1 < z < 3
STACKED REST-FRAME ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA OF Ly alpha-EMITTING AND CONTINUUM-SELECTED GALAXIES AT 2 < z < 3.5

Letter (1)

A giant protocluster of galaxies at redshift 5.7
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Paulina Lira

Associate Professor

Astronomía

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Andres Escala

Associated Professor. (ternured

Astronomía

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Nelson Padilla

Profesor Titular

Astrophysics

Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

26
Guillermo Blanc

Adjunct Professor

Astronomía

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

4
Valentino Gonzalez

Profesor Asistente

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Médéric Boquien

Académico

Vicerrectoría de Investigación

UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA

Antofagasta, Chile

2
Ezequiel Treister

Associate Professor

Institute of Astrophysics

Pontificia Universidad Catolica

Santiago, Chile

2
Enrico Congiu

Postdoc

Departamento de Astronomia

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile