
Neil Mark Nagar
Profesor Titular (Full Professor)
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Concepcion, Chile
Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Galaxy Kinematics; Innermost structure (few to few thousand Schwarzchild radii) of AGN; Event Horizon Telescope; Supermassive Black Holes; UltraHigh Energy Cosmic Rays; Instrumentation
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Astronomy, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK. Estados Unidos, 2000
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Electronics & Electrical Engineering, BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (BITS). India, 1994
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Mathematics, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. Chile, 1994
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Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time
Arcetri Observatory
Florence, Italia
2000 - 2002
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Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time
Kapteyn Institute, U. of Groningen
Astronomy
Groningen, Holanda
2002 - A la fecha
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Professor Titular (Full Professor) Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas
Concepcion, Chile
2004 - A la fecha
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Design and Development Engineer Full Time
Tata Elxsi
Bangalore, India
1993 - 1994
Ph.D. Theses completed: Roger Leiton, Gustavo Orellana, Roy Slater, Paula Calderon, Carolina Finlez
Ph.D. Theses in progress: Juan-David Osorno
M.Sc. Theses completed: Catherine Cortes, Miguel Soto, Felipe de la Puente, Pedro Humire, Pamela Soto, Dania Muñoz
M.Sc. Theses in progress: Marcelo Figueroa, Andrea Guerrero, Matias Sotomayor, Alexander Pillard
Undergraduate (Titulo) Theses completed: Roy Slater, Gustavo Orellana, Gerald Neumann, Catalina Melendez
Undergraduate (Titulo) Theses in progress: --
Postdoc Supervision: Juan Baptiste Juin, Hugo Messias, Jay Blanchard, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Roger Leiton, Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, Carolina Finlez
Undergraduate classes: 3 per year
Graduate classes: one every three years on average.
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Best Graduating Student (Electronics and Electrical Engineering)
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (BITS)
India, 1992
Award given to a single graduating student in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, for overall achievement in academics and extra curricular activities.
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Research Fellowship
Arcetri Observatory
Italia, 2000
Two year independent research fellowship at Arcetri Observatory, Italy
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Research Fellowship
UNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
Holanda, 2002
Three year independent research fellowship.
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Graduate Fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK
Estados Unidos, 1994
Graduate Student Fellowship: stipend awarded to exceptional students to pursue their Ph.D. at UMD without any required duties.
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Senate Medal (Chilean Senate)
Chilean Senate
Chile, 2019
Senate medal awarded to members of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) and members at ALMA, who participated in the first image of a supermassive black hole.
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Premio Municipal de Ciencias 2019, Concepcion
ILUSTRE MUNICIPALIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Chile, 2019
Annual award by the Municipality of Concepcion to an outstanding scientist from Concepcion, Chile.
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2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Estados Unidos, 2020
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (3 million US$) is a new and very prestigious prize in Physics. The 2020 version of this prize was awarded to all 347 authors of the first set of papers which detailed the imaging of the supermassive black hole in M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope.
Formation and growth of supermassive black holes |
THE PHYSICS OF BLACK HOLES DOWN TO SCHWARZSCHILD-RADIUS SCALES=> MASSES, ACCRETION AND OUTFLOWS, AND TESTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY |
A UdeC Postdoc for the ALMA Phasing Project and Event Horizon Telescope=> a bridge from instrumentation to science |
Event Horizon Telescope |
Estabilishing the Role of Mergers in Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution |
THE FORMATION OF THE RED SEQUENCE OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES=> UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENT |
An Instrument Postdoc as UdeC's committment to the approved NSF MRI Project Development of an ALMA Beamformer |
Desarrollo de una plataforma astroinformatica para la administracion y analisis inteligente de datos a gran escala |
Development of an ALMA Beamformer for Ultra High Resolution VLBI and High Frequency Phased Array Science |
Laboratory Test Instrumentation & Infrastructure for the U. de Concepcion Radioastronomy Laboratory |
Phasing the Atacama Large Telescope Array for Observing a Black Hole Event Horizon |
THE STELLAR-MASS FORMATION HISTORY OF MASSIVE GALAXIES AT Z>1. |
UNDERSTANDING HIGH REDSHIFT SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES BY STUDYING NEARBY SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES AND NEARBY ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES=> COEVAL EVOLUTION OF GALAXY AND NUCLEAR BLACK HOLE FROM THE FIRST GALAXY TO THE LAST. |
Centro de Astrofisica y Tecnologias Afines |
Central kiloparsec of Seyfert and inactive host galaxies: a comparison of two-dimensional stellar and gaseous kinematics |
Extragalactic H2O masers and X-ray absorbing column densities |

Luis Barrientos
Associate Professor, Director
Institute of Astrophysics
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

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

Ricardo Bustos
Profesor Asociado
Ingeniería Eléctrica
Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Concepción, Chile

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

Víctor Parada
Profesor Titular
Ingeniería Informática
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile

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

Pierluigi Cerulo
Profesor asistente
Ingeniería Informática y Ciencias de la COmputación
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile

Pedro Humire
investigador postdoctoral
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brasil