IEA

Faculty

Lorena Hernández-García

Assistant Professor, whose research focusses on the study of active galactic nuclei (AGN), particularly interested in how they accrete material and how they interact with their immediate surroundings.

Enrique Paillas

Assistant Professor, starting in the Fall of 2026, whose research focusses on precision cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe using statistical techniques and galaxy surveys.

Lucas Cieza

Full Professor, working on the study of protoplanetary disks and the characterization of their properties; currently focussed on the ODISEA project.

Evelyn Johnston

Evelyn Johnston

Assistant Professor, whose research focusses on understanding the formation and evolution of nearby galaxies, and in understanding morphological transformations of their components.

Alice Zurlo

Full Professor and Director of YEMS, whose main research revolves around detecting and characterizing exoplanets with high-contrast imaging.

Jose Prieto

Full Professor and current Director of IEA, whose research focusses on the study of astrophysical transients and their characterization using observations.

Bin Yang

Assistant Professor, whose primary focus is the characterization of primitive small bodies like asteroids and comets, using diverse observing techniques.

Paula Jofré

Associate Professor and current Director of the Astrophysics PhD Program, and Director of ERIS – whose research centers on the evolution of the Milky Way by analzying chemical abundances of stars.

Manuel Aravena

Manuel Aravena

Full Professor, whose expertise focusses on the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies to understand their formation and evolution using ALMA, JWST, VLA, and other observations.

Chiara Mazzucchelli

Assistant Professor, working in extra-galactic astrophysics, focussing on very luminous active galactic nuclei – quasars – in the epoch of reionization.