Eric Faustino Jiménez Andrade, Ph.D.
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Various large galaxies detected in the VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project, shown in false colour. In green are galaxies as seen in the near-infrared with the UltraVISTA survey. Large jets and rings are revealed in the radio images, which are shown in red. Image construction: Eleni Vardoulaki and Eric Faustino Jimenez-Andrade.
Various large galaxies detected in the VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project, shown in false colour. In green are galaxies as seen in the near-infrared with the UltraVISTA survey. Large jets and rings are revealed in the radio images, which are shown in red. Image construction: Eleni Vardoulaki and Eric Faustino Jimenez-Andrade.
Hello,
a bit about me:
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in the USA (Charlottesville, VA). My research interests lie in the field of galaxy formation and evolution. I primarily use observations from the Very Large Array, Atacama Large Millimeter Array and Hubble Space Telescope to explore the structural evolution of galaxies. My goal is to better understand how star formation and black hole activity shape galaxies across cosmic time.
I hold a doctoral degree in Astrophysics from University of Bonn (Germany). I worked under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Frank Bertoldi, Dr. Benjamin Magnelli and Dr. Alex Karim at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy (University of Bonn) within the International Max Planck Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IMPRS, Max Planck Society). My PhD project focused on the study of the physical conditions of the star-forming gas throughout cosmic time, as well as the coeval growth of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) and their host galaxies. The main project of my PhD focussed on understanding the way that galaxies grow by determining the size of the global star-forming component via radio observations with the Very Large Array, i.e. the JVLA-COSMOS map (see video below and press release). Download Thesis (English).
I did my Master in Sciences in Astrophysics at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE, Mexico). My thesis project was focused on two open issues concerning the AGN phenomenon: the nature of the Mega-parsec scale radio galaxies and the co-evolution of the host galaxy and the central engine in radio-loud AGNs. Download Thesis (English).
I obtained the Bachelor Degree in Physics by the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP, Mexico). As part of my thesis project I carried out a multi-frequency study of the blazar 3C 273. Download Thesis (Spanish).