Team Members

Young Researchers

Postdocs

Bidisha Bandyopadyay

Bidisha was hired into our group at U. de Concepcion with previous SMBH funding, and now holds an independent 3 year Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Within TITANs she uses GRMHD simulations to predict the images expected for dozens of AGNs with the EHT and GMVA.

Universidad de Concepción
bidisharia (at) gmail.com



Dhanya Nair

Universdad de Concepción
nair@jive.eu




Mary Loli Martinéz

Universidad de Chile
mmary@cft.edu.pl





Venkatessh Ramakrishnan

Venky was hired into our group at U. de Concepcion with previous SMBH funding, and now holds an independent 3 year Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is a member of the EHT Collaboration and works on the EHT imaging SgrA*, M87, and other AGNs, and also leads the observational effort to identify the large sample of AGNs (the ETHER sample) to be observed with the EHT and ng-EHT.

Universidad de Concepción
venkatessh (at) astro-udec.cl




Gaoyuan Zhang

Gaoyuan was hired into our group at U. de Concepcion with previous SMBH funding; in April 2021 we will transition to an independent 3 year Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Gaoyan works on the impact of high-energy processes produced by SNe and AGN on the chemistry of molecular clouds, particularly in the Galactic center.

Universidad de Concepción
venkatessh (at) astro-udec.cl




PhD students

Patricio Avila

Universidad de Concepción
patricioavila@udec.cl



Santiago Bernal

Universidad de Concepción
patricioavila@udec.cl