Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
2008
2002 Licenciatura en Física* (with honors) at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING PERIODS
09/2005 Summer School Novicosmo, "The Dark and the Luminous Sides of the Formation of Structures", Istria, Croatia
04/2003-01/2004 Short-term student at the European Southern Observatory (Chile).
01/200303/2003 Research Assistant at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO).
01/2002-03/2002 Student in the PIA/REU program at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory.
1997-2001 Teaching Assistant in several physics courses at Facultad de Física, Universidad Católica, especially in experimental courses.
01-02/2001 Research Assistant at the Department for Astronomy, Universidad Catolica.
SKILLS
Observing facilities: FORS2@VLT (MXU mode), VIMOS@VLT (MOS mode), MOSCA@3.5m (MOS, Calar Alto), HST/ACS (16 orbits), CIRSI@Dupont (NIR, 2.5m Las Campanas), CCD cameras at CTIO and Las Campanas.
Data Analysis: Considerable experience in reducing optical and near-infrared imaging, single and multi-object spectroscopy, in both IRAF and MIDAS environments. Stellar, surface and galaxy photometry with e.g. DAOphot, SExtractor, Ellipse, GALfit, etc., as well as, custom made tasks and other programs for spectroscopic analysis and other purposes.
Computers: Advanced user of Windows and Linux/Unix operative systems.
Programing languages: Perl, IDL, C and Fortran.
Analyzing tools: SM, xmgrace, IDL, Origin, gnuplot, etc.g languages.
Others: HTML, LaTeX, etc.
Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent) and German (intermediate)
CONFERENCES
07/2007 Poster presentation at the conference "Galaxy growth in a dark Universe". Heidelberg, Germany.
08/2006 Poster presentation at XXVI IAU General Assembly, in symposium 235 "Galaxy Evolution across the Hubble Time". Prague, Czech Republic.
12/2005 Poster presentation at the 11th Latino-American IAU Regional Meeting, Pucón, Chile.
10/2005 Talk given at the Astronomische Gesellschaft meeting in Köln, Germany.
10/2004 Poster presentation at the Astronomische Gesellschaft meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
01/2003 Presentation of Results (Poster) at the 201st American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, USA. Poster title: "Infrared studies in supernovae type Ia".
02-03/2002 Participation in the "Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum" and "Ligh Pollution" conferences. La Serena, Chile.
PUBLICATIONS
"The galaxy populations from the centers to the infall regions in z~0 25 clusters". Verdugo, M., Ziegler, B. L., Gerken B. 2008A&A, 486, 9V.
“Internal kinematics of spiral galaxies in distant clusters. III. Velocity fields from FORS2/MXU spectroscopy”. Kutdemir, E., Ziegler, B. L., Peletier, R. F., Da Rocha, C., Kronberger, T., Kapferer, W., Schindler, S., Böhm, A., Jäger, K., Kuntschner, H. & Verdugo, M.. 2008A&A, 488, 117K
"An Observational Limit on the Dwarf Galaxy Population of the Local Group". Whiting, A. B., Hau, G. K. T., Irwin M. & Verdugo, M. 2007 AJ, 133, 715W.
“The Intrinsic Colors of RR Lyrae Variables: A Means to Determine Interstellar Reddening” K. A. Guldenschuh, A. C. Layden, Y. Wan, A. Whiting, N. van der Bliek, P. Baca, J. Carlin, T. Freismuth, M. Mora, C. Salyk, S. Vera, M. Verdugo & A. Young. 2005 PASP, 117, 721G.
(*) Five years of mathematics, physics and astronomy courses, including a six months thesis project.