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Yara Lorena Jaffé Ribbi

Prof. Adjunto

Universidad de Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Galaxy formation, Galaxy evolution, Galaxy environment, Extragalactic astronomy, Observational astronomy, Semi-analitical modelling, Large-scale structure, Cosmology.

Educación

  •  Astronomy, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM. Reino Unido, 2012
  •  Physics, UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR. Venezuela, 2007

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow with duties as support astronomer at Paranal Observatory Full Time

    EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - 2018

  •   Postdoctoral associate Full Time

    OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA

    INAF

    Padova, Italia

    2011 - 2012

  •   FONDECYT Fellow Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Concepcion, Chile

    2012 - 2015

  •   undergraduate student intern Full Time

    Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia

    Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia

    Merida, Venezuela

    2006 - 2006

  •   Summer studentship Full Time

    NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

    NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center

    Washington DC, Estados Unidos

    2007 - 2007

  •   Internship part of the PhD thesis Full Time

    EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

    Garching, Alemania

    2008 - 2009

  •   Prof. Adjunto Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

    Facultad de Ciencias

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2018 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Prof. Adjunto Full Time

    Universidad de Valparaiso

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2018 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Research group (mentoring):
* Supervising a PhD student at Universidad de Valparaíso (UV).
* Hosting 2 postdoctoral researchers at (UV).
* Supervising masters student (UV).
* Supervised a PhD student (ESO/U. Birmingham). Graduated 2019.
* Supervised a PhD student in science operation project at Paranal (ESO). Graduated 2019.
* Supervised undergraduate student. Graduated 2020.

Teaching:
* Regularly teaching 4 physics and astronomy under-graduate courses at UV: Ondas y Óptica; Astrofísica Extragaláctica; Prácticas de Astrofísica Extragaláctica; Astronomía general
* Regularly teaching 1 astrophysics post-graduate course at UV: Seminario
* Guest lecturer for the astrophysics instrumentation master degree at Universidad de Antofgasta
* Taught a post-graduate astronomy course on Galaxy Formation and Evolution at Universidad de Concepcion.
* Teaching assistant of rst year undergraduate students in physics at University of Nottingham.
* Teaching assistant in Physics and Physics Laboratory for first and second-year undergraduate students at Universidad Simon Bolivar.
* Lecturer of Module of Physics for senior High School year at Institutos Educacionales Asociados in Venezuela.


Difusión y Transferencia


Full list of publications via ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2150-1130

Selected talks given in the past 5 years:
* 2021: Invited talk at CfA Galaxy Cluster Group
* 2020: Invited talk at SOCHIAS meeting, Chile
* 2020: Invited talk at IAG galaxy group meeting, Brazil
* 2020: Invited talk at SPLUS meeting, Brazil
* 2018: Invited colloquium talk at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
* 2018: Invited colloquiumtalk at KASI, Daejeon, Korea
* 2018: Invited talk at IAG, Sao Paulo, Brasil
* 2017: Invited talk at the "European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS, Symposium S8)" in Prague, Czech Republic.
* 2017: Invited talk at the "7th Friends of Friends Meeting" in Cordoba, Argentina.
* 2017: Invited (plenary) talk on "The hard life of galaxies in clusters" at the annual meeting of SOCHIAS (Chiean Astronomical Society) in Maitencillo, Chile.

Outreach activities and public engagement:
* 2018-2019: Outreach coordinator at Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia, UV
* Dozens of public talks in Chile since 2015
* Participation and organization of many outreach events in the V Region and in other regions in Chile, including:
-- Fiesta del Eclipse 2019 in Cachioyuyo
--CosmoFest (Museo Interactivo Mirador)
-- Round-table discussion on the gender gap in science, hosted at Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso
-- Sudent internships Euducacion Futuro
-- Feria de la Ciencia UV
-- Festival Internacional de Innovación Social (FiiS) 2017,
--`Ciencia Fest 2017'' in Santiago de Chile
-- Congreso astronomico escolar del Bio Bio organized by Embiggen in Coronel, Chile 2015.
and more.

Press and Media:
* 2020: Gave a YouTube webinar "La vida social de las galaxias" and answer to questions live for a series of "Astronomy at home" talks organized by Proyecto Anillo de formacion de agujeros negros supermasivos
* 2017: An ESO media release about the discovery a connection between ram-pressure stripping and supermassive black holes (Poggianti, Jaffe et al. 2017, Nature): \url{http://www.eso.org/public/newsletters/esonews/html/946/?lang. Docens of other related articles in english, spanish and other languages.
* 2017: Video link from Paranal Observatory to XX Festival de Astronomia, Villa de Leyva, Boyaca, Colombia.
* 2017: Several media releases to newspapers, news agencies, radio and TV about "Jellyfish galaxies" and the GASP project as part of a Media Day" organized by SOCHIAS. Selected articles are listed in http://www.sc.eso.org/~yjaffe/outreach.html.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Honori c distinction

    UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR

    Venezuela, 2007

    As part of the (5-year) Undergraduate physics degree I carried out a thesis titled "Kinematic Study of RR Lyrae stars in the inner halo of the Milky Way" and supervised by Dr. A. K. Vivas. This thesis was awarded honorific distinction by the University.

  •   cum laude

    UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR

    Venezuela, 2007

    The (5-year) Undergraduate physics degree was culminated with "cum laude" distinction.

  •   Very early career woman physicist of the year

    UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

    Reino Unido, 2010

    PhD thesis was proposed by Prof. Aragón-Salamanca to the Institute of Physics, Londo foe the Shell "very early career woman physicist of the year" award. The work, which competed with works in all scientific diciplines, was awarded second place.

  •   Poster award

    UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

    Malasia, 2009

    Award in student poster competition at "Galaxy evolution and environment", Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2009).

  •   Scholarship from the Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales de Venezuela

    Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales de Venezuela

    Venezuela, 2008

    Scholarship to pursue a PhD abroad from the Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales de Venezuela.

  •   NASA Studentship

    NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

    Estados Unidos, 2007

    Awarded a studentship to develop a project over the summer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Washington DC.

  •   ESO Studentship

    EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

    Alemania, 2008

    Awarded scholarship to spend 1 year at ESO-Germany to develop collaborations as part of the PhD thesis project.


 

Article (84)

A New Method to Constrain the Appearance and Disappearance of Observed Jellyfish Galaxy Tails
Chilean astronomy and climate change
Ionized gas kinematics of cluster AGN at z 0.8 with KMOS
The Relevance of Ram Pressure Stripping for the Evolution of Blue Cluster Galaxies as Seen at Optical Wavelengths
An environmental dependence of the physical and structural properties in the Hydra cluster galaxies
Formation of S0s in extreme environments II: The star-formation histories of bulges, discs, and lenses
GASP XXIX - unwinding the arms of spiral galaxies via ram-pressure stripping
BUDHiES IV: Deep 21-cm neutral Hydrogen, optical, and UV imaging data of Abell 963 and Abell 2192 at z ≃ 0.2
Formation of S0s in extreme environments I: clues from kinematics and stellar populations
Formation of S0s in extreme environments II: the star-formation histories of bulges, discs and lenses
GASP XXIV. The History of Abruptly Quenched Galaxies in Clusters
GASP XXVII: Gas-phase Metallicity Scaling Relations in Disk Galaxies with and without Ram Pressure Stripping
GASP XXX. The Spatially Resolved SFR-Mass Relation in Stripping Galaxies in the Local Universe
GASP. XXI. Star Formation Rates in the Tails of Galaxies Undergoing Ram Pressure Stripping
GASP. XXII. The Molecular Gas Content of the JW100 Jellyfish Galaxy at z similar to 0.05: Does Ram Pressure Promote Molecular Gas Formation?
GASP: XXVI. HI gas in jellyfish galaxies: The case of JO201 and JO206
The dynamical state of Abell 2399: a bullet-like cluster
Erratum=> GASP. IX. Jellyfish galaxies in phase-space=> an orbital study of intense ram-pressure stripping in clusters
GASP - XIX. AGN and their outflows at the centre of jellyfish galaxies
GASP - XVI. Does cosmic web enhancement turn on star formation in galaxies?
GASP - XX. From the loose spatially resolved to the tight global SFR-mass relation in local spiral galaxies
GASP XIII. Star formation in gas outside galaxies
GASP XVIII: star formation quenching due to AGN feedback in the central region of a jellyfish galaxy
GASP XXIII: A Jellyfish Galaxy as an Astrophysical Laboratory of the Baryonic Cycle
GASP. XV. A MUSE view of extreme ram-pressure stripping along the line of sight: physical properties of the jellyfish galaxy JO201
The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters
The time delay between star formation quenching and morphological transformation of galaxies in clusters: a phase-space view of EDisCS
Consequences of the external field effect for MOND disc galaxies in galaxy clusters
Enhanced Star Formation in Both Disks and Ram-pressure-stripped Tails of GASP Jellyfish Galaxies
Galaxy pre-processing in substructures around z~0.4 galaxy clusters
GASP - X. APEX observations of molecular gas in the discs and in the tails of ram-pressure stripped galaxies
GASP VII. Signs of Gas Inflow onto a Lopsided Galaxy
GASP – XII. The variety of physical processes occurring in a single galaxy group in formation
GASP. IX. Jellyfish galaxies in phase-space: an orbital study of intense ram-pressure stripping in clusters
GASP. IX. Jellyfish galaxies in phase-space=> an orbital study of intense ram-pressure stripping in clusters
GASP. V. Ram-pressure stripping of a ring Hoag's-like galaxy in a massive cluster
Raman-scattered laser guide-star photons to monitor the scatter of astronomical telescope mirrors
UVIT view of ram-pressure stripping in action=> star formation in the stripped gas of the GASP jellyfish galaxy JO201 in Abell 85
Fellows at ESO
Detection and Implications of Laser-Induced Raman Scattering at Astronomical Observatories
Determining the Halo Mass Scale Where Galaxies Lose Their Gas
Discovery of Ram-pressure Stripped Gas around an Elliptical Galaxy in Abell 2670
GASP I. Gas Stripping Phenomena in Galaxies with MUSE
GASP II. A MUSE View of Extreme Ram-Pressure Stripping along the Line of Sight: Kinematics of the Jellyfish Galaxy JO201
GASP III. JO36: A Case of Multiple Environmental Effects at Play?
GASP IV. A Muse View of Extreme Ram-pressure-stripping in the Plane of the Sky: The Case of Jellyfish Galaxy JO204
GASP VIII. Capturing the Birth of a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy in a Merging System at &ITz&IT similar to 0.05
GASP. I. Gas Stripping Phenomena in Galaxies with MUSE
GASP. I. Gas Stripping Phenomena in Galaxies with MUSE
GASP. VIII. Capturing the Birth of a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy in a Merging System at z ˜ 0.05
History of HI Stripping in Virgo: A Phase-space View of VIVA Galaxies
OmegaWINGS: The First Complete Census of Post-starburst Galaxies in Clusters in the Local Universe
Phase-space Analysis in the Group and Cluster Environment=> Time Since Infall and Tidal Mass Loss
Phase-space Analysis in the Group and Cluster Environment=> Time since Infall and Tidal Mass Loss
Phase-space Analysis in the Group and Cluster Environment=> Time since Infall and Tidal Mass Loss
Ram-pressure feeding of supermassive black holes
BUDHIES – III: the fate of H i and the quenching of galaxies in evolving environments
Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: COOL BUDHIES I - a pilot study of molecular and atomic gas at z ? 0.2
Highest Redshift Image of Neutral Hydrogen in Emission: A CHILES Detection of a Starbursting Galaxy at z = 0.376
JELLYFISH GALAXY CANDIDATES AT LOW REDSHIFT
Jellyfish Galaxy Candidates at Low Redshift
RECENT GALAXY MERGERS AND RESIDUAL STAR FORMATION OF RED SEQUENCE GALAXIES IN GALAXY CLUSTERS
The XXL Survey
The XXL Survey
The XXL Survey
The XXL Survey. VII. A supercluster of galaxies at z = 0.43
The XXL Survey. XII. Optical spectroscopy of X-ray-selected clusters and the frequency of AGN in superclusters
BUDHIES II: a phase-space view of H I gas stripping and star formation quenching in cluster galaxies
Ionized gas discs in elliptical and S0 galaxies at z < 1
BUDHIES I: characterizing the environments in and around two clusters at z⋍0.2
BUDHIES I=> characterizing the environments in and around two clusters at z similar or equal to 0.2
BUDHIES=> a Blind Ultra Deep HI Environmental Survey
Ionized gas discs in elliptical and S0 galaxies at z < 1
The Effect of Environment on Star Formation and Gas Reservoirs With Budhies
Gas Reservoirs and Star Formation in a Forming Galaxy Cluster at z=0.2
Sub-structures in the inner halo of the Milky Way
The colour-magnitude relation of elliptical and lenticular galaxies in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey
The Effect of the Environment on the Gas Kinematics and Morphologies of Distant Galaxies
The effect of the environment on the gas kinematics and the structure of distant galaxies
Outflows and Fueling Flows in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy Mrk 3
The Geometry of Mass Outflows and Fueling Flows in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy MRK 3
Sub-structures in the Milky Way's Halo towards Virgo
Spectroscopy of Bright Quest RR Lyrae Stars: Velocity Substructures Toward Virgo
Spectroscopy of bright quest RR Lyrae stars=> Velocity substructures toward Virgo

ConferencePaper (1)

Early-type galaxy formation: Understanding the role of the environment

ConferenceProceedingWhole (6)

Ram Pressure Stripping of Galaxy JO201
BUDHIES: a Blind Ultra Deep HI Environmental Survey
The Effect of Environment on Star Formation and Gas Reservoirs With Budhies
The Effect of the Environment on the Gas Kinematics and Morphologies of Distant Galaxies
Outflows and Fueling Flows in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy Mrk 3
Sub-structures in the inner halo of the Milky Way

Errata (1)

GASP. I. Gas Stripping Phenomena in Galaxies with MUSE (vol 844, 48, 2017)

Proyecto (6)

Extragalactic astronomy in Valparaíso: entering the era of big data
Gran Fiesta del Eclipse en la III Región (Julio 2019)
Understanding the connection between ram-pressure striping and AGN
El efecto del entorno en la evolución de galaxias
The effect of environment on the evolution of disk galaxies (FONDECYT Iniciacion)
GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION=> RECONCILING NATURE AND NURTURE
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Yara Jaffé

Prof. Adjunto

Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia

Universidad de Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile

3
Ricardo Demarco

Profesor Asociado

Astronomia

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION, DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMIA

Concepcion, Chile

2
Evelyn Johnston

Assistant professor

Nucleo de Astronomia

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

1
Antonio Montero

Profesor Asistente

Physics

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodolfo Barbá

Director

Astronomía

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA - UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SERENA

La Serena, Chile

1
Javier Alonso

Associate Professor

Centro de Astronomía (CITEVA)

Universidad de Antofagasta

Antofagasta, Chile

1
Sergio Torres

Director de Investigación y Desarrollo

Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SERENA

La Serena, Chile

1
Daniel Ortiz

Encargado de Plataformas

Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado

Universidad de La Serena

La Serena, Chile

1
Christopher Haines

Assistant Professor

Instituto de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias

Universidad de Atacama

Copiapó, Chile

1
Ezequiel Treister

Associate Professor

Institute of Astrophysics

Pontificia Universidad Catolica

Santiago, Chile

1
Daniela Olave

Conferenciante

Departamento de Tecnologías Industriales

Universidad de Talca

Curicó, Chile

1
Julie Nantais

Profesora Asistente

Ciencias Físicas

Universidad Andrés Bello

Las Condes, Chile

1
Antonela Monachesi

Associate Professor

Astronomía

Universidad de La Serena

La Serena, Chile