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Professor Lorena Hernández, a member of the Academic Faculty of the Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos at Universidad Diego Portales, was awarded the L’Oreal For Women in Science Award, granted by L’Oreal Chile and UNESCO, in collaboration with La Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), in the Postdoctoral category. “The main objective of the For […]

Since its discovery in July 2025, the interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS has sparked excitement among the cometary research groups across the world. Here, at the IEA, our astronomers have begun tracking the interstellar object with the OMA500 telescope — a 50cm optical telescope located at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile’s Rio Hurtado Valley. The

We are happy to announce that our researchers at the IEA have been awarded observing time as PIs for ALMA Cycle 12.

Manuel Aravena, academic and researcher at the Institute of Astrophysical Studies (IEA), within the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences at Universidad Diego Portales (UDP), and member of the Centro de Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA) and the Millennium Nucleus of Galaxies (MINGAL), is one of the protagonists and principal investigators of the large-scale ALMA project,