About Me

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) where I work in the development of Deep Metric Learning algorithms for the classification of periodic variable stars. I also research classical pulsators and hot subdwarf stars, though I’m generally interested in most areas of Stellar Astrophysics, whether it is stellar structure and evolution, variability, population modelling or any star-related things you might think-of (I must admit, however, that my experience so far includes low and intermediate mass stars only). I have also tried other areas of astrophysics, including a short summer-research at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) under Prof. Franz Bauer where I implemented a multi-wavelength AGN classifier using machine learning, a summer internship at ESO Chile under Dr. Claudia Paladini where I learnt about interferometry while being involved in the operation of the MATISSE instrument, and contributions to research lead by colleagues in areas such as Galactic Archeaology and Supernovae remnants.

As for my educational background, I started my BSc in Astronomy on 2016 at PUC and graduated around mid 2020 by presenting an undergraduate research thesis titled Period-change rates in Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids revisited with Prof. Marcio Catelan as my advisor. Then, in 2021 I joined UNSW Canberra for a PhD in Physics under the supervision of Dr. Ashley Ruiter, with whom I worked on my thesis about sub-dwarf B stars’ formation and evolution by using both the rapid binary population synthesis code COMPAS and the stellar structure code MESA. You can find more details about my academic background in my CV.

During my free time I sometimes play videogames (Mass Effect is one of the reasons why I got into astronomy), read webcomics and practice/learn the Korean language (제 웹사이트 방문하셔서 감사합니다 ㅎㅎ).