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Valentino González
Assistant Professor
Background & Contact Information
Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics 2012, University of California, Santa Cruz. United States
Research Topics:High redshift galaxies
Areas of interest
The goal of my research is to figure out how the first galaxies formed and evolved to their current state. To that end I focus on the observational properties of the most distant galaxies that we can detect with current technology, focusing mainly in the first 2 billion years of the Universe. To study such distant galaxies, I work with the deepest images of the Universe obtained with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in fields like the Ultra deep field (UDF) as well as data obtained with the largest ground based telescopes, including VLT and ALMA. My research involves modeling the stellar populations of high redshift galaxies to estimate properties such as their stellar mass content, star formation rate, age, dust content, etc.
Biography
Dr. Valentino González is an Assistant Professor in the Astronomy Department of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Campus of Universidad de Chile since 2015. He got his bachelor’s degree in Astronomy at Universidad de Chile and in 2006 he was awarded a Fulbright-CONICYT fellowship for Ph.D. studies. He graduated from his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2012 with a thesis titled “Stellar mass buildup in galaxies in the first 1.5 Gyr of the universe”. He was then a “Center for Galaxy” evolution fellow based at the University of California, Riverside, until he joined the Astronomy department at Universidad de Chile.
Dr. González’s research focuses on the study of the formation and evolution of galaxies during the first 2 billion years in the history of the Universe. Until 2018, he was the PI of the Fondecyt Initiation grant #11160832 “High Redshift Galaxy Evolution: Robust Stellar Masses and the Role of Nebular Emission Lines”.
Dr. González’s research focuses on the study of the formation and evolution of galaxies during the first 2 billion years in the history of the Universe. Until 2018, he was the PI of the Fondecyt Initiation grant #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 class)
