* The halo-galaxy connection: theory, models, simulations and observations * Large-scale structure of the universe: halo/galaxy clustering * Evolution of massive galaxies from galaxy surveys * Observational cosmology: cosmological constraints

2025 PhD in progress: Constanza Soto, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2025 Master in progress: Vicente Izzo, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2024 PhD in progress: Ignacio Quiroz, UTFSM, Chile. Co-advisor (main advisor: Rory Smith).

2024 Postdoc in progress: Ankit Kumar (ALMA), UNAB, Chile. Co-advisor (main advisor: Celeste Artale, UNAB, Chile).

2024 Master in progress: David Tobar, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor (co-advisor: Rory Smith).

2024 Final undergraduate research project in progress: Vicente Cáceres, Vicente Honorato, Catalina Riveros, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2024 Final undergraduate research project completed: Constanza Soto, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2024 Final undergraduate research project completed: Fabián Molina, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2024 Final undergraduate research project completed: Vicente Izzo, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2024 Final undergraduate research project completed: Isidora Espinoza, UTFSM, Chile ? UChile, Chile. Main advisor.

2024 Final undergraduate research project completed: David Tobar, UTFSM, Chile. Main advisor.

2023 Final undergraduate research project completed: Pablo Saavedra, UTFSM, Chile ? UChile, Chile. Main advisor.

2020 Master completed: Beatriz Tucci, USP, Brazil ? MPA, Germany. Main advisor (co-advisor: Raul Abramo, USP).

2020– PhD in progress: Natalia Villa Nova, USP, Brazil. Co-advisor (main advisor: Raul Abramo, USP).

2019–2024 PhD completed: Natali de Santi, USP, Brazil ? UC Berkeley / Flatiron Institute, USA. Main advisor (co-advisor: Raul Abramo, USP).

2018–2020 Final undergraduate research project completed: Gabriela Sato-Polito, USP, Brazil ? IAS-Princeton, USA. Main advisor (co-advisor: Raul Abramo, USP).

2016 Final undergraduate research project completed: Benjamin Knowlton, UoU, USA. Main advisor.

RELEVANT PRESENTATIONS

CONFERENCES & MEETINGS

2026 (Invited/planned) Mock NYC: Improving Galaxy Modeling for Cosmological Inference, Flatiron Institute in New York City (USA) on 13 to 15th of January 2026.

2024 Contributed talk: Mind the Gap: Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure, Córdoba, Argentina. Title: Connecting bias and the cosmic web.

2024 Invited talk: Mock Barcelona: clustering, lensing, and the galaxy-halo connection, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Title: Exploring the physics of assembly bias.

2024 Invited participation: Miramar Workshop, Donostia, Spain.

2023 Contributed talk: A Journey Through Galactic Environments – From the Halo Assembly Bias to the Satellite Quenching, Porto Ercole, Italy. Title: The dependence of assembly bias on the cosmic web from TNG.

2023 Invited talk: III Workshop on the Halo-Galaxy Connection, Atacama 2023, Universidad de Atacama, Copiapó, Chile. Title: On the physical origins of assembly bias: The cosmic-web connection.

2023 Invited talk: Mock La Serena: the galaxy-halo connection and its relationship to the environment, Universidad de La Serena, Chile. Title: On the physical origins of assembly bias: The cosmic-web connection.

2023 Contributed talk: Southern Astrophysics Network (SAN) Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Title: The halo-galaxy connection: a multi-angle approach.

2023 Contributed talk: Friends of Friends (FoF) 2023 Meeting, Córdoba, Argentina. Title: Assembly bias: when cosmology meets galaxy evolution.

2022 Invited talk: European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting 2022, Valencia, Spain. Title: On the influence of halo mass accretion history on galaxy properties and assembly bias.

2022 Invited talk: Friends of Friends (FoF) 2022 Meeting, Córdoba, Argentina. Title: The halo-galaxy connection: a multi-angle approach.

2022 Invited talk: CIELO Workshop, Santiago, Chile. Title: The effect of mass stripping on the satellite galaxy population from TNG50.

2020 Invited talk: Webinar Público: Materia Oscura, lo más bonito es lo desconocido, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Santiago, Chile.

2020 Invited talk: 62a Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía (AAA), Santa Fe, Argentina. Title: La conexión halo-galaxia en el contexto cosmológico.

2020 Contributed talk: The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time: Recent Updates, Santa Barbara, USA. Title: The manifestation of halo assembly bias on the galaxy population.

2020 Contributed talk: Mock Innsbruck: the connection between galaxies and dark matter haloes, Innsbruck, Austria. Title: The manifestation of secondary halo bias on the galaxy population.

2020 Invited lecturer: IX La Plata International School (LAPIS) on Astronomy and Geophysics, La Plata, Argentina. Title: The Connection between Galaxies and Halos in the LSS.

2019 Contributed talk: S-PLUS Collaboration Meeting, São Paulo, Brazil. Title: Multi-tracer Cosmology: dissecting the connections between galaxies and halos with upcoming surveys.

2019 Invited talk: Halo and Galaxy Assembly Bias – From Theory to Observation, Shanghai, China. Title: Halo and Galaxy Assembly Bias: From N-body numerical simulations to galaxy data.

2019 Contributed talk: Uchuu Collaboration Meeting, Chiba University, Japan. Title: The Halo-Galaxy Connection in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.

2019 Contributed talk: FAPESP-JSPS Workshop on Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Galaxies, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Title: The Halo-Galaxy Connection in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.

2019 Contributed talk: VI Meeting on Fundamental Cosmology, Granada, Spain. Title: The Halo-Galaxy Connection in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.

2019 Contributed talk: J-PAS Collaboration Meeting, Teruel, Spain. Title: The Halo-Galaxy Connection in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.

2019 Invited talk: SPANET Workshop on Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, São Paulo, Brazil. Title: The Halo-Galaxy Connection in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.

2018 Contributed talk: CosmoAndes 2018, Santiago, Chile. Title: A Comprehensive Study of Galaxy Assembly Bias for Massive Galaxies.

2017 Contributed talk: Little Workshop on LSS, Granada, Spain. Title: A Comprehensive Study of Galaxy Assembly Bias for Massive Galaxies.

2016 Poster: SnowPAC 2016: The Galaxy-Halo Connection, Park City, Utah. Titles: The BOSS Great Wall: The Biggest Supercluster Ever Found / The Intrinsic Halo-Galaxy Connection from BOSS: A forward-modeling approach.

2015 Contributed talk: The SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Madrid, Spain. Title: A Forward Modeling Approach for the study of the LRG population from z = 1. II. The L–? relation.

2015 Poster: Drifting through the Cosmic Web: The Evolution of Galaxies within the Large Scale Structure (10th Marseille Cosmology Conference), Aix-en-Provence, France. Title: Forward-Modeling Approach for the Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe.

2014 Contributed talk: Joint BOSS+eBOSS Collaboration Meeting, Cloudcroft, USA. Title: The redshift evolution of the high-mass end of the red sequence LF from the CMASS sample. Application to the computation of the Faber–Jackson relation.

2014 Contributed talk: The SDSS-III and SDSS-IV Collaboration Meetings, Park City, USA. Title: The redshift evolution of the high-mass end of the red sequence LF from the CMASS sample. Constraints on the stellar populations of the LRG population.

2013 Contributed talk: 2013 BOSS Collaboration Meeting and eBOSS+TDSS+Spiders Review, Berkeley, USA. Title: The BOSS LF.

2013 Contributed talk: The 2013 SDSS-III Collaboration Meeting, Baltimore, USA. Title: The BOSS CMASS Luminosity Function of Galaxies.

2012 Contributed talk: 2012 BOSS Collaboration Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA. Titles: 1) The Granada FSPS Galaxy Product, 2) Completeness in the BOSS CMASS sample.

2012 Contributed talk: BOSS 2012 Collaboration Meeting, New York, USA. Title: The Granada Galaxy Evolution Catalog.

2010 Contributed talk: SDSS-BOSS 2010 Collaboration Meeting, Paris, France. Title: Fiber aperture and atmospheric systematics in stellar population studies with BOSS.

2010 Poster: 2010 May Symposium: Stellar Populations in the Cosmological Context, Paris, France. Title: The ALHAMBRA Survey: Photometric Stellar Masses.

2008 Contributed talk: When the Universe Formed Stars, Martinique, France. Title: DEEP2 RS: The AGN fraction and its environmental and redshift dependence.

2008 Contributed talk: Joel Fest Galaxy Evolution Workshop, Santa Cruz, USA. Title: DEEP2 RS: The AGN fraction and its environmental and redshift dependence.

NOTABLE SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA

2025 (planned) Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago, Chile. Invited by Ankit Kumar and Lucia Guaita.

2025 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaíso, Chile. Invited by Nicolás Tejos.

2023 Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU), ICTP, Trieste, Italy. Invited by Ravi Sheth and Emiliano Sefusatti.

2022 Universidad de Valparaíso (UV), Valparaíso, Chile. Invited by Yara L. Jaffé.

2021 CGI Seminar, University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, USA. Invited by Doris Stoppacher.

2020 IAG Department Seminar, University of São Paulo (IAG-USP), São Paulo, Brazil. Invited by Raul Abramo and Laerte Sodré.

2020 Cosmology Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Garching, Germany. Invited by Elisa Ferreira.

2020 Astrophysics Seminar, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, USA. Invited by Ravi Sheth.

2019 Astrophysics Seminar, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Invited by Cristina Furlanetto.

2011 Astronomy Seminar, University of Utah (UoU), Salt Lake City, USA. Invited by Adam Bolton.

2011 Astronomy Seminar, University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Berkeley, USA. Invited by David Schlegel.

2011 Astronomy Seminar, Durham University, Durham, UK. Invited by Carlton Baugh.

2009 Astronomy Seminar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA. Invited by Risa Wechsler.

2009 Astronomy Seminar, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Invited by Christian Wolf.

ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS

2025
IV Workshop on the Halo-Galaxy Connection – Córdoba 2025, Córdoba, Argentina.
Role: Co-organizer.
Type: International workshop.

2024
Unveiling the Physical Origins of Assembly Bias, Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU–ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
Role: Organizer.
Type: International workshop.

2023
III Workshop on the Halo–Galaxy Connection – Atacama’23, University of Atacama, Copiapó, Chile.
Role: Co-organizer (main organizer: Iván Lacerna).
Type: International workshop.

2022
II Mini Workshop on Assembly Bias for the South American Community, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Santiago, Chile.
Role: Organizer.
Type: International workshop.

2019
I Mini Workshop on Assembly Bias for the South American Community, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile.
Role: Co-organizer (main organizer: Nelson Padilla).
Type: International workshop.

2018
SPANET Workshop on Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Role: Member of SOC/LOC (main organizer: Laerte Sodré).
Type: Brazilian workshop.

2008
Cosmology Across Cultures, Granada, Spain.
Role: Member of LOC (main organizer: Francisco Prada).
Type: International conference.