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I'm
a postdoctoral researcher in the
Astronomy group at the
Vanderbilt Physics and Astronomy Department, and in parallel,
I am a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Astrophysics Research Centre, at Queen's University Belfast. I am interested in the fundamental properties of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets, as well as trying to
understand their formation, structure and evolution.
And now a bit of history... Ever since I was little, I have been fascinated by the night sky. Most likely, it was because of the beautiful, starry nights of the Sonoran Desert near my hometown of Hermosillo. I remember in second grade choosing my very first bibliographic paper to be on the sun and it's (then) nine planets. When I was 14, I went as far as sending NASA Headquartes a letter asking for information on how to become an astronaut. After a brief stint as an amateur soccer player, another as a Physics Engineer, and one more as an Energy and Environmental Engineer, I rediscovered my passion for Astronomy during an internship at the IMCCE. At that point, there was no going back! So, I started my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt in Keivan Stassun's research team, and wrote a thesis on two low-mass, young eclipsing binary systems (thesis). A more extensive recount is available at Vanderbilt's Exploration website. |
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