TEACHING IN ACADEMIA:
In July 2009, I joined the Department of Astronomy of
the University of
Concepción (UdeC) in Chile where I teach to
undergraduate and graduate students in Astronomy, and taught to
students of the science teacher career of UdeC. My favorite
subjects are extragalactic astrophysics, galaxy formation and
evolution, clusters of galaxies, and galaxy spectroscopy. I have
also given a course on astrobiology. Between
March 2013 and December 2015 I was the director of the
undergraduate
program in astronomy (for reference purposes, you can see the
old pages of
the program) at UdeC. Also, between July
2009 and February 2013, and between January and July 2018, I
performed the duties of Secreatry of Teaching Affairs of the Department of
Astronomy.
In previous years, I have been invited lecturer at
the Johns Hopkins
University and the
University of
California at Riverside (UCR). At UCR, I also assisted in the
supervision of students working on the reduction of multi-object
spectroscopy data and the interpretation of galaxy
spectra. Between 1994 and 1998, in addition to being an
undergraduate physics student, I worked as a teaching assistant of
several courses in physics and astronomy for undergraduate
students in science and engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile.
As a faculty professor of UdeC, I have trained students from the
astronomy, physics and science teacher programs, most of them as
their undergraduate-thesis advisor. I have also trained
international students who have come to UdeC as exchange students
or to perform short-term internships in astronomy. As a visiting
researcher at the University of Oregon, I have been involved with
the training in astronomy of undergraduate students from its
physics program.
Students from UdeC graduated under my supervision:
• Mr. Caleb Gatica (M.S.; astronomy; 2022)
• Mr. Alex Durán (B.S.; astronomy; 2022)
• Ms. Marcela González Paillalef (M.S.;
astronomy; 2021)
• Mx. Monserrat Martínez Marín
(M.S.; astronomy; 2020)
• Ms. Daniela Olave Rojas (Ph.D.; physics; 2019)
• Mr. Mauricio San Martín (B.S.;
astronomy; 2016)
• Mr. Felipe Henríquez (B.S.;
astronomy; 2016)
• Mr. Fernando Cortés (B.S.;
physics/astronomy; 2014)
• Ms. Jennifer Szeinkierman (B.Ed.; science teacher;
2014)
• Ms. Rossana Velozo (B.Ed.; science teacher;
2014)
Students from UdeC who have worked with me:
• Mr. Fernando Cuevas (astronomy; undergraduate;
2022)
• Ms. Daniela Gallardo (astronomy; undergraduate;
2022)
• Ms. Camila Sepúlveda (astronomy;
undergraduate; 2017-2018)
• Ms. Valentina Ojeda (physics/astronomy;
graduate; 2016-2018)
• Mr. Orlando Vásquez
(physics/astronomy; undergraduate/graduate;
2013-2016)
• Ms. Romina Ahumada (physics/astronomy;
undergraduate;
2012-2014)
• Ms. Caddy Cortés (astronomy;
undergraduate;
2010-2012)
• Mr. Víctor Toledo (physics/astronomy;
undergraduate;
2010-2012)
International students who have worked with me:
• Odelia Hartl (physics; undergraduate at U. of
Oregon, USA; 2019)
• Ms. Maggie Thompson (physics; undergraduate
at U. of Oregon, USA; 2019)
• Jonah Rose (computer science/physics;
undergraduate at U. of Oregon, USA; 2018-2019)
• Ms. Laura Queen (computer sciences/physics;
undergraduate at U. of Oregon, USA; 2018)
• Mr. Vincenzo Aronica (physics; undergraduate,
research intern at UdeC
from France; 2018)
• Mx. Kira Simpson (astrophysics;
undergraduate, exchange
student at UdeC from USA; 2017-2018)
• Ms. Lindsey Oberhelman (physics; undergraduate at U. of Oregon, USA; 2016-2018)
• Ms. Charity Woodrum (physics; undergraduate
at U. of Oregon, USA; 2016-2018)
Me teaching the sky with a model of the celestial sphere. © Diario El Sur, 2018.
