Dr. José Fernández Trincado
J. G. Fernández-Trincado obtained his PhD at the Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France in March 2017 and joined at the Department of Astronomy as a postdoctoral fellow in Abril 2017. The research work during his stay in France was focused on Galaxy modeling using test particle simulations, with the purpose of reproducing the observed kinematic features towards the Milky Way bulge. His work helped to improve the kinematics predictions of the Besançon Galaxy model (a population synthesis model of the Milky Way). He is now participating actively in the SDSS-IV collaboration as Southern Target/Field Selection Coordinator of APOGEE-2.
His scientific interests focus:
- Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters (chemical abundance analysis throughout the NIR eyes of APOGEE-2).
- Chemical anomalies in the Milky Way field and its relation with Globular Clusters.
- Extra tidal stars as tracers of the GCs disruption and its relation with possible accretion origins (variability survey of RR Lyrae stars, SX-Phoenicis stars, Delta Scuti stars, and AGB/RGB stars from APOGEE-2)
- Chemical abundance and orbital analysis of Open Clusters and Moving Groups.
- Gaia data analysis using Stellar Population Synthesis Models.
- Constraining the formation scenarios of the Milky Way bulge.
- Galactic Orbital Migration of Inner disk/bulge stars at the Solar Neighborhood as revealed by Gaia and APOGEE-2 dataset.
- I am the main developer of GravPot16 software (https://fernandez-trincado.github.io/GravPot16/): A tool based on the Besançon Galaxy model for galactic dynamics (stellar obit integration and test particle simulations).
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