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Valentino González
Assistant Professor
Training and contact
Ph.D. en Astronomía y Astrofísica 2012, U. de California, Santa Cruz.
Research Topics:High redshift galaxies
Area of interest
The goal of my research is to understand how the first galaxies formed and how they evolved to acquire the properties we know today. To do this, I studied the observable properties of the most distant galaxies detectable with current technology, focusing on the first two billion years of the Universe's history. To observe such distant galaxies, I used the deepest images of the sky obtained with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in fields such as the Ultra-Deep Field (UDF), as well as data from the largest ground-based telescopes, including the VLT and ALMA. My research involves modeling the stellar populations of these distant galaxies to estimate their properties, such as stellar mass, star formation rate, age, dust content, and so on.
Biography
Dr. Valentino González has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile since 2015. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Astronomy from the University of Chile and, in 2006, received a Fulbright-CONICYT scholarship for doctoral studies. He completed his Master's and PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012 with his dissertation titled “Stellar mass buildup in galaxies in the first 1.5 Gyr of the universe.” Through a grant from the Center for Galaxy Evolution, he completed postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Riverside, before joining the Department of Astronomy at the University of Chile.
Dr. González's research focuses on the study of galaxy formation and evolution, with particular emphasis on the first two billion years of the Universe's history. Until 2008 he was PI of the Fondecyt Initiation project #11160832 “High Redshift Galaxy Evolution: Robust Stellar Masses and the Role of Nebular Emission Lines”.
Dr. González's research focuses on the study of galaxy formation and evolution, with particular emphasis on the first two billion years of the Universe's history. Until 2008 he was PI of the Fondecyt Initiation project #11160832 “High Redshift Galaxy Evolution: Robust Stellar Masses and the Role of Nebular Emission Lines”.
Courses, Projects, Recent Publications
- Introduction to Newtonian Physics
- Astrophysics of Galaxies
- Numerical Methods for Science and Engineering
- Astroinformatics
- Galaxies (graduate level)
