Fernando Buitrago

Distinguished Senior Researcher (Univ. Valladolid & IA)
fbuitrago@uva.es, fbuitrago.astro@gmail.com

ABOUT

Hello everybody! 😀 I am an astronomer working in Galaxy Formation and Evolution at the University of Valladolid (Spain) with a Distinguished Senior Researcher position. I am also affiliated to the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (Portugal). I love studying extreme objects such as the most massive galaxies of the Universe or the outermost parts of the galaxies (their superfaint galaxy edges), and anything related to challenge the current frontiers of our Physics theories

¡Hola a todos! 😀 Soy un astrónomo que trabaja en formación y evolución de galaxias en la Universidad de Valladolid (España) como Investigador Distinguido Senior. También estoy afiliado al Instituto de Astrofísica y Ciencias del Espacio (Portugal). Me encanta estudiar objetos extremos como las galaxias más masivas del Universo o las partes más externas de las galaxias (sus superténues bordes), y cualquier concepto que desafie las actuales fronteras de nuestras teorías físicas

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🌔 🌔 NEWS! 🌔 🌔

As of February 2021, I am the Working Package leader on "Low surface brightness issues, tidal features and diffuse light" on the Euclid space satellite's Local Universe Working Group

As of June 2023, I am the deputy coordinator of the Spanish Astronomical Society's Astronomía y Cultura commission

EDUCATION

PhD in Astronomy
University of Nottingham (UK)

MARCH 2008 - APRIL 2012

BSc in Computer Science
University of Salamanca (Spain)
3 Years Course

Since OCTOBER 2010

MSc in Astronomy
University of La Laguna / IAC (Spain)
2 Years Course

Since JUNE 2008

MSc in Physics
University of Salamanca (Spain)
5 Years Course

Since SEPTEMBER 2007


WORK

Distinguished Senior Researcher
University of Valladolid (Spain)

I belong to the Department of Theoretical and Atomic Physics and Optics, working in the Research Group on Mathematical Physics. I teach for the BSc in Physics (Differential Geometry) and for the MSc in Physics (Big Data, Extragalactic Astrophysics). I actively collaborate in Machine Learning with the UVa School of Computer Science Electronics Deparment. I am also part of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (Portugal).

OCTOBER 2020 - CURRENT

FCT Fellow
IA - OAL (Portugal)

I obtained a FCT fellowship at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, working in the The assembly history of galaxies resolved in space and time thematic line.

SEPTEMBER 2015 - SEPTEMBER 2020

Invited Lecturer
University of Lisbon (Portugal)

I taught two courses in the University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences: Extragalactic Astrophysics: Galaxy formation and evolution (MSc in Physics) and Advanced topics in Extragalactic Astrophysics: Galaxy formation and evolution (PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics). I also supervised the PhD Thesis of Sandra Reis (Photometric and kinematical tracers of the inside-out growth of massive galaxies; with Polychronis Papaderos and Israel Matute)

FEBRUARY 2016 - DECEMBER 2019

PostDoctoral Researcher Associated to the ASTRODEEP FP7 programme
University of Edinburgh (UK)

I partaked of ASTRODEEP, and FP7 project aimed at obtaining the best multiwavelength information for the standard extragalactic fields, namely CANDELS and the Hubble Frontier Fields.

OCTOBER 2014 - MARCH 2015

PostDoctoral Researcher Associated to an European Research Council Grant
University of Edinburgh (UK)

I worked with James S. Dunlop group in the Royal Astronomical Observatory of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy, while I also teached at the University of Edinburgh.

OCTOBER 2011 - OCTOBER 2014


PUBLICATION RECORD

Please click here for the most updated list of my publications


AWARDS

Distinguished Senior Researcher Fellowship
University of Valladolid (Spain)

2020

FCT Fellowship
IA-Lisbon (Portugal)

2015

SEA Prize to the Best Spanish Thesis in Astronomy 2012 (ex-aqueo)
Spanish Astronomical Society

My thesis Structural evolution of massive galaxies in the last 11 Gyr received the Spanish Astronomical Society prize.

2012

International Grant for PhD doctorate
STFC (UK) and IAC (Spain)

I was a PhD student in the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Christopher J. Conselice, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca and Ignacio Trujillo.

2008


SKILLS

Python


IDL


Machine Learning


GALFIT


SExtractor


Going out with my friends



YOUTUBE VIDEOS

Black Hole Week 2024 Athena X-ray observatory Kids' questions
(Spanish)

1st JULY 2024

Fronteiras, dende o orixe do Universo ata a exploración espacial (Academia Galega das Ciencias, Santiago de Compostela) Surveys de galaxias: rastrexando a distribución da materia en diferentes épocas cósmicas
(Portuguese)

10th JUNE 2024

Semana Mundial del Espacio en el Museo de la Ciencia de Valladolid: ¿Por qué no tenemos un plan(eta) B?
(Spanish)

6th OCTOBER 2022

Ciclo de conferencias Carlos Rodríguez Magro 2021: El bajo brillo superficial, la última frontera
(Spanish)

18th OCTOBER 2021

Inauguración Sistema Solar Ciudad Rodrigo: Yo vivo en una galaxia
(Spanish)

4th SEPTEMBER 2021

O Universo Online: O que se esconde num céu escuro
(Portuguese)

30th JANUARY 2021

O Universo Online: IA Astronomy Quiz (during the 2020 lockdown)
(Portuguese)

18th APRIL 2020

Spanish Astronomical Society talk on professional prospects in Astronomy
(Spanish)

20th JULY 2020

Spanish Astronomical Society summary on Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
(English)

14th JULY 2020

Seminar at the Univ. of Valladolid, "Un Universo hecho de galaxias"
(Spanish)

26th APRIL 2019

Seminar at the IAC, "Indiana Jones and where to find relic galaxies"
(English)

28th NOVEMBER 2018

Summary of the XIIIth Spanish Astronomical Society meeting
(Spanish)

20th JULY 2018

Outreach talk at the Lisbon Planetarium (public >350 people)
(Portuguese)

16th DECEMBER 2017

Outreach talk at the Lisbon Planetarium (public >350 people)
(Portuguese)

25th FEBRUARY 2017

My thesis, for the XIth Spanish Astronomical Society 2012 award
(Spanish)

8th SEPTEMBER 2014

Seminar at the IAC, "On the extreme properties of massive galaxies at high redshifts"
(English)

20th DECEMBER 2010


RADIO INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS

Semana Mundial del Espacio en el Museo de la Ciencia de Valladolid
¿Por qué no tenemos un plan(eta) B? (Spanish)

6th OCTOBER 2022

Radio Universidad de Salamanca
Ojos de Oriental, "El problema de los tres cuerpos" (Spanish)

2nd OCTOBER 2018

Ondacero Salamanca
Salamanca en la onda, "XIII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía" (Spanish)

13th JULY 2018

Radio Universidad de Salamanca
Eureka, "XIII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía" (Spanish)

11th JULY 2018

Radiovoz de Galicia
A noite é necesaria, "XIII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía" (Portuguese)

8th JULY 2018


NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

El Norte de Castilla
Las imágenes del universo más desconocido ya se estudian en Valladolid (con videoentrevista interior) (Spanish)

El Norte de Castilla
Ocho científicos de la UVA participa en la misión del telescopio espacial Euclid (Spanish)

El Mundo
La UVa se va al espacio con el telescopio Euclid (Spanish)

La Razón
La Universidad de Valladolid apunta al espacio (Spanish)

JUNE 2023

SEA Meeting 2018 #1
Salamanca 24 horas (Spanish)

SEA Meeting 2018 #2
Salamanca 24 horas (Spanish)

SEA Meeting 2018 #3
Salamanca 24 horas (Spanish)

JULY 2018

El horizonte azul de la Astronomía, con Alberto Molino
El País (Spanish)

NOVEMBER 2009


PRESS RELEASES

National Geographic
Star Treks: finalmente, as caminhadas das estrelas (Portuguese)

JULY 2024

Noticias CyL
Todo listo para el lanzamiento de Euclid (Spanish)

Novaciencia
La Universidad de Valladolid participa en la misión espacial Euclid que se lanzará desde Cabo Cañaveral en julio (Spanish)

University of Valladolid web
La Universidad de Valladolid participa en la misión espacial Euclid que se lanzará próximamente (Spanish)

JUNE 2023

University of Valladolid web
Investigador UVa explorará si las galaxias tienen bordes (Spanish)

Noticias CyL
Investigador UVa explorará si las galaxias tienen bordes (Spanish)

FEBRUARY 2021

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences web
The quest for galactic relics from the primordial Universe (English and Portuguese)

INAF web
The quest for galactic relics from the primordial Universe (Italian)

Phys.org
The quest for galactic relics from the primordial Universe (English)

Jornal de Notícias
Astrofísicos identificam galáxias dos primórdios do Universo intactas (Portuguese)

Cosmos magazine
A bundle of ultra-compact massive galaxies found (English)

21st NOVEMBRE 2018

Cover page and article in "Astronomía"
Los monstruos galácticos (Spanish)

JUNE 2017

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences web
Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolis (English and Portuguese)

15th FEBRUARY 2017


MY INTERESTS

MASSIVE GALAXIES

Image taken from http://frontierfields.org

low and high redshifts

GALAXIES AT HIGH REDSHIFT

Image taken from http://apod.nasa.gov

photometry and spectroscopy

THE LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS UNIVERSE

Image taken from http://www.iac.es

the faintest galaxy parts

SOMEWHERE, SOMETHING INCREDIBLE IS WAITING TO BE KNOW

Image taken from http://www.astronomynight.org

interdisciplinary science

SCIENTIFIC VOLUNTEERING

Image taken from http://www.japantimes.co.jp

why don't you try?



CONTACT

Email
fbuitrago@uva.es, fbuitrago@oal.ul.pt

Adress
Dpto. de Fisica Teórica, Atómica y Óptica
Faculty of Science, Office B215
Paseo de Belén, 7
University of Valladolid
47011 Valladolid
Spain

Phone
+34-983 186 462

Mobile
+34-636 844 203

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