Curriculum & Publications

Andrés Ernesto Guzmán Fernández 0000-0003-0990-8990
Nationality: Chilean

Academic degrees

• Doctorate degree in Astronomy. Universidad de Chile (2012)
  Advisors: Profs. Guido Garay (U. de Chile) and Kate Brooks (ATNF)
  Committee: Profs. Diego Mardones, Andrés Escala, and Thomas Wilson
  Thesis: “Jets and outflows toward high-mass young stellar objects.”
• Master degree in Astronomy Universidad de Chile (2007)
  Advisors: Profs. Jorge May and Simón Casassus (Universidad de Chile)
  Committee: Profs. Héctor Álvarez and Lars-Åke Nyman
  Thesis: "Galactic modeling of the 45 and 408 MHz radiation, applied to the deduction of the energy distribution of cosmic electrons."

Employment and Teaching Experience

• Science Content Archive Manager at the Joint ALMA Observatory (2021-currently).
• ALMA Project Postdoctoral Research Employee at NAOJ (2018-2021).
• "The accretion shaped hypercompact HII regions." Fondecyt postdoctoral grant N° 3150570. (2014-2017) Fondecyt postdoctoral position N° 3150570 at Universidad de Chile (Nov. 2014-2017).
• "Dark filaments, clouds, and cores: a multiband IR study of the early stages of star formation in extended structures." Postdoctoral researcher for 11-ADAP11-0128, P.I. Howard Smith, in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2012-2014).
• Teaching assistant in Radiative Transfer (2008-2010), Contemporary Physics (2007), and Probability and Stochastic Processes (2004-2006) at Universidad de Chile.

Observational Astronomer Experience

• Interferometry
  • ALMA. Data quality assurance, observation preparation, and data reduction.
  • ATCA. Observations preparation, telescope operation, and data reduction.
  • SMA. Telescope operation.
  • VLA. Observations preparation and data reduction.
• Single-dish
  • APEX. Observation preparation, telescope operation, and data reduction.
  • ASTE. Observation preparation, telescope operation, and data reduction.
  • IRAM-30m. Observation preparation and data reduction.
• Optical & near-IR
  • Subaru. Data reduction.
  • VLT/VLT-I. MIDI observation preparation and data reduction.

Participation in International Conferences and Workshops (2015-2019)

• Event: “East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2018” (17-19 December 2018)
  Title: “Stochastic modeling of the time variability of ALMA calibrators”
  Place: Osaka, Japan
• Event: “Tracing the Flow: Galactic Environments and the Formation of Massive Stars” (02-06 July 2018)
  Title: “Chemistry of the High-Mass Protostellar Molecular Clump IRAS 16562-3959”
  Place: Windermere, U.K.
• Event: “IAUS 332: Astrochemistry VII – Through the Cosmos from Galaxies to Planets” (20-24 March 2017)
  Title: “The in-between chemistry of high-mass accreting clumps”
  Place: Puerto Varas, Chile
• Event: “From Stars to Massive Stars” (05-09 April 2016)
  Title: A Protostellar Jet Emanating from a Hypercompact HII Region
  Place: Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
• Event: “Soul of High-Mass Star Formation” (15-20 March 2015)
  Title: Invited oral review, Review on Massive Outflows and Jets Place: Puerto Varas, Chile

Academic Peer Evaluation

• Scientific refereeing for The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nature, and Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica
• Refereeing scientific funding projects for Fondecyt (Chile) and Foncyt (Argentina)
• Participation in the Chilean TAC (2017)

Distinctions

• Astronomy Department Universidad de Chile graduate distinction (2008)
• Conicyt doctorate fellowship (2007)
• Bronze medal in Iberoamerican Mathematical Olympiad (Caracas, 2000)
• Academic excellence scholarship of the Engineering School, Universidad de Chile (2000)
• National top score in University Selection Test in Mathematics and Physics

Languages

• Spanish native.
• English fluent.

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Publication List

Refereed articles: 56 (ADS list)
Citations: 1804 (ADS count, 09 July 2024)
First author refereed articles: 10
Citations excluding self-citations: 1638
h-index: 24