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PAULA JOFRE PFEIL

assistant professor

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Astrophysics Chemical evolution Milky Way

Educación

  •  Natural Sciences, LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN. Chile, 2010
  •  Astronomy , PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES

    Santiago, Chile

    2017 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   research assistant Full Time

    University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    2013 - 2017

  •   research assistant Full Time

    Universite Bordeaux 1

    Burdeos, Francia

    2011 - 2013

Formación de Capital Humano


Post-doc supervisions:
- ESO-Chile: Calibrating Stellar Abundances. Postdoc: Marcelo Tucci Maia, PhD in Astrophysics, University of Sao Paulo. UDP contract between March 2018 and March 2020.
- ALMA-Conicyt Number 31170029: Climbing the distance ladder with stellar twins. Postdoc: Anya Samadi Ghadim, PhD Astrophysics from Teheran University. UDP contract between December 2018 and December 2020.
- ESO-Chile: Planet-star chemical connection with wide binaries. Postdoc: Claudia Aguilera Gomez, PhD in Astrophysics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. UDP contract between March 2021 and March 2023.

PhD supervisions:
- Danielle de Brito Silva. Undergraduate in Physics and Astronomy from Universidad de Sao Paulo, en Brasil. Currently on 4-year UDP doctoral fellowship since August 2019.
- Sara Vitali. Physics undergraduate degree from Torino University in Italy. Masters in Astrophysics fromthe Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Germany. To start with UDP fellowship in August 2021.
- Jorge Anais: AStronomy BAchelor from PUC and Master in Astrophysics from Antofagasta University Chile. INRIA PhD fellowship since March 2021.
- Co-supervision of Keith Hawkins for PhD in U Cambridge, cosupervised UK with Gerry Gilmore (2013-2016).

Co-supervision of master students from PUC
1) Francisca Rojas Espinoza (December 2019) cosupervised with Julio Chanamé
2) Anell Cornejo (DEcember 2020). Cosupervised with Manuela Zoccali.

PhD thesis committees
- Ditte Slumpstrup, Aarhus University, Denmark

For qualification exams:
- Madelaine Massey en Universidad Texas Austin (September 2020)
- Gyu Chul en la Universidad de Cambridge (June 2017).

I give courses to 40 students about Astronomy twice per year (one per semester) since 2018 in Universidad Diego Portales.
In University of Cambridge I have cosupervised 6 master theses in astrophysics between 2013 and 2017.


Difusión y Transferencia


Talks about my work to General Public and the scientific community.
Notable recent talks are

Congreso futuro 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZvSTymMWmI&ab_channel=CongresoFuturo
Congreso del Futuro 2020. This is the biggest Innovation Event in Latin America. Part of the panel "Understanding" together with Lindy Elkins and Donna Strickland. The talk was shown in streaming for all Chile and this participation prompted many interviews for national news programs.

In addition :
Aspen Center for Physics (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgNk2dl-Q4
Webinar Educacion y Genero (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nnh7gCHjek
Chilenas Creando Futuro (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA3j_G7cPFs


Premios y Distinciones

  •   100 Time Next

    TIME Magazine

    Estados Unidos, 2019

    I was awarded one of the 100 TIME next as one of the rising stars in all disciplines worldwide.

  •   10 Scientist to Watch

    Science News

    Chile, 2018

    I was awarded one of the 10 Scientists to Watch under 40 in all scientific disciplines of the World.


 

Article (34)

Atomic data for the Gaia -ESO Survey
Host-star and exoplanet compositions: a pilot study using a wide binary with a polluted white dwarf
Using heritability of stellar chemistry to reveal the history of the Milky Way
KIC 8975515: A fast-rotating (gamma Dor - delta Sct) hybrid star with Rossby modes and a slower delta Sct companion in a long-period orbit
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibrating the lithium-age relation with open clusters and associations I. Cluster age range and initial membership selections
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Spectroscopic-asteroseismic analysis of K2 stars in Gaia-ESO The K2 Galactic Caps Project
The Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). I. Survey Description, Spectra, and Radial Velocities
Accuracy and Precision of Industrial Stellar Abundances
The Gaia-ESO survey: Calibrating a relationship between age and the [C/N] abundance ratio with open clusters
The K2 Galactic Caps Project - going beyond the Kepler field and ageing the Galactic disc
The Gaia-ESO Survey and CSI 2264: Substructures, disks, and sequential star formation in the young open cluster NGC 2264
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Churning through the Milky Way
The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way
Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia
Cosmic phylogeny: reconstructing the chemical history of the solar neighbourhood with an evolutionary tree
Gaia FGK benchmark stars: opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination
The evolution of spiral galaxies
The Gaia-ESO Survey Mg-Al anti-correlation in iDR4 globular clusters
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibration strategy
The Gaia-ESO Survey: double-, triple-, and quadruple-line spectroscopic binary candidates
The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Exploring the complex nature and origins of the Galactic bulge populations
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Low-alpha element stars in the Galactic bulge
The Gaia-ESO survey: the inner disk intermediate-age open cluster NGC 6802
The Gaia-ESO Survey: the inner disk, intermediate-age open cluster Trumpler 23
The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters
An accurate and self-consistent chemical abundance catalogue for the APOGEE/Kepler sample
Cannibals in the thick disk: the young alpha-rich stars as evolved blue stragglers
Gaia Data Release 1 Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
Stellar twins determine the distance of the Pleiades
The Gaia mission
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Hydrogen lines in red giants directly trace stellar mass
The Gaia-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem
The Gaia-ESO Survey: the selection function of the Milky Way field stars
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