Facundo Ariel G´omez Curriculum Vitae

Current Position Fixedtermstaffposition Startingdate:October,2014 Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Phone: +49 89 30000 2014 Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, Postfach 1317 Fax: +49 89 30000 2235 D-85741, Garching, Germany Webpage: Homepage E-mail: [email protected] Past Appointments ICER ResearchFellow Period:October,2010 MichiganStateUniversity toSeptember,2014 Department of Physiscs and Astronomy Biomedical Physical Sciences Building 567 Wilson Road, Room 3255 East Lansing, MI 48824-2320 Michigan, USA

Research Galaxy formation and evolution, Galactic Dynamics, Milky Way archaeology, Numerical Interests simulations of galaxies, Statistical analysis of observational data and numerical models, Galactic chemical evolution, Local Group cosmology

Education Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, September 2010 • Thesis: Milky Way archaeology and the dynamical signatures of mergers • Advisor: Professor Amina Helmi

Facultad de Ciencias Astron´omicas y Geof´ısicas de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina Licenciatura en Astronom´ıa (equivalent to M.Sc.), February 2006 • Thesis: The relevance of N-body chaos in the limit N → ∞ • Advisor: Professor Diego Daniel Carpintero

Awards and • American Astronomical Society International Travel Grant, 2012 Honors • Distinction “Joaquin V. Gonzalez” granted by Consejo Deliberante de la Munici- palidad de La Plata, to distinguished students of the Faculties of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. December, 2006 • Award “Beca Estmulo 2005”, from the Argentinian Astronomy Association: Finan- cial support for a research summer project at the Facultad de Ciencias Astron´omicas y Geof´ısicas de La Plata. Period: From January 1st of 2005 to March 1st of 2005

Invited talks • Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), Ohio, USA, 2014 Title: “Statistically probing the merger history of the Milky Way, 2014” • Friends-of-Friends Meeting, Cordoba, Argentina, 2013 Title: “Examining Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Milky Way and Its Satellites” • Extreme astro meeting, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA, 2011 Title: “Looking for signatures of minor mergers in the Milky Way thick disk kine- matics” • SDSS-III Meeting, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, 2011 Title: “Looking for signatures of minor mergers in the Milky Way thick disk kine- matics”

1 of 4 • Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA, 2011 Title: “Looking for signatures of minor mergers in the Milky Way thick disc kine- matics” • Institute of Astronomy (IoA), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2009 Title: “On the identification of substructure in phase-space using orbital frequencies”

Computing Time Awarded • Title: “Probing Galaxy Formation at Low and High Redshifts” Co P.I.: Facundo A. G´omez, NSF XRAC program, grant number: TG-AST090040, 1.5 million CPU hour, 2014

• Title: “Characterizing the formation history of the Milky Way,” P.I.: Facundo A. G´omez, NSF XRAC program, grant number: TG AST120022, 1.2 million CPU hour, 2012

Mentoring Rebecca Robinson, Senior Thesis, Michigan State University, 2013 Thesis: “Galactic Merger Dynamics in Density and Velocity Spaces”

Conferences, • The Near-Field Deep-Field Connection, February 2014, Irvine, USA / Poster Workshops and Contributions • 55th Argentinean Astronomers Conference, September 2012, Mar del plata, Argentina / Two Posters • IAU XXVIII General Assembly, August 2012, Beijing, China / Two Posters • First Galaxies and Faint Dwarfs: Extreme Probes of the Cold Dark Mat- ter Paradigm, February 2012, Santa Barbara, USA / Poster • The Milky Way and the Local Group - Now and in the Gaia Era, August 2009, Heidelberg, Germany / Talk • Distribution of Mass in the Milky Way Galaxy, July 2009, Leiden, The Nether- lands / Talk • Building the Milky Way (workshop), October 6-17 2008, Santa Barbara, USA • Back to the Galaxy II, September 2008, Santa Barbara, USA / Poster • Dynamics of galaxies, August 2007, Saint Petersburg, Russia / Poster • Dissecting the Milky Way, November 2006, Leiden, The Netherlands / Poster • 46th Argentinean Astronomers Conference, September 2003, La Plata, Ar- gentina / Poster

Teaching • Student Assistant in the “Admission Course” to the Facultad de Ciencias Astron´omicas experience y Geof´ısicas de La Plata Period: From February 1st to March 12th, 2004 • Student Assistant in the Undergraduate Course “Mec´anica Anal´ıtica” (Classical Me- chanics) at the Facultad de Ciencias Astron´omicas y Geof´ısicas de La Plata Period: From April 1st, 2004 to March 1st, 2005 • Student Assistant in the Undergraduate Course “C´alculo Num´erico” (Numeric Cal- culus) at the Facultad de Ingenier´ıa de La Plata (Faculty of Engineering) Period: From October 1st, 2004 to March 1st, 2005 • Student Assistant in the Undergraduate Course “F´ısica Moderna” (Modern Physics) at the Facultad de Ciencias Astron´omicas y Geof´ısicas de La Plata Period: From April 1st, 2005 to September 1st, 2005

2 of 4 Public Outreach and • The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), Press Releases Title: “Reconstructing Our Galaxy’s Formation History”, May 2014, written by Hanneke Weitering

• BBC Focus magazine, Title: “The history of our cosmic back yard”, October 2013, Pages 42-43, written by Dr. Andrew Potzen

• Volunteer Assistant for the Open Evenings at the Blaauw Observatory, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

Service Referee for The Astrophysical Journal

Memberships Member of the MADAI collaboration (Models and Data Analysis Initiative), devoted to developing statistical analysis and visualization tools for the purpose of comparing complex models and simulations to large scale heterogenous data sets. P.I.: Scott Pratt

Academic • Organizer of the galaxy formation meetings (weekly talks given by group members Responsibilities and guests), Michigan State University and Period: 2012 Organization • Member of the Local Organizing Committee, Annual RAVE meeting, Kapteyn As- tronomical Institute Period: 2010 • Co-organizer of Wine, Cheese & Science Series, (seminars for Graduate Students and Postdocs), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Period: 2006 / 2007 • Co-organizer of the Student Meetings (weekly talks given by Graduate Students), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Period: 2006 / 2007 • Member of the Academic Council on representation of the Students, Facultad de Ciencias Astron´omicas y Geof´ısicas de La Plata Period: April 1st, 2003 to March 31st, 2004

Observational Four nights of imaging with the 2.15m telescope at the CASLEO Observatory, San Juan, Experience Argentina Period: May 2002

A Programming Currently using: Fortran, MATLAB, LTEX, Mathematica, IDL, R Notion and usage: Gnuplot, C/C++, SM, IRAF

Languages Spanish (native), English (fluent)

References • Prof. Brian W. O’Shea Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824, USA e-mail: [email protected]

3 of 4 • Prof. Timothy Beers National Optical Astronomy Observatory P.O.Box 26732 Tucson, AZ 85726, USA e-mail: [email protected] • Prof. Amina Helmi Kapteyn Astronomical Institute P.O. Box 800 9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]

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