Comité Ejecutivo 2020-2024
El Comité Ejecutivo electo en Asamblea General para el período de 2020 a 2024 está estructurado de la siguiente manera:
Rodrigo Sacahui
President
Guatemalan astrophysicist, current professor at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. I obtained my doctorate at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and my area of work is high energy astrophysics, studying blazars and gamma ray flashes.
Skarleth Motiño
Vice President
Honduran astrophysicist, graduated from the National Autonomous University of Honduras. She is currently a Ph.D. at the Catholic University of America, in Washington DC. She worked on the study of galaxy evolution, characterization of the interstellar medium, and the history of galaxy star formation. I have had the great opportunity to work with observations from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) as well as other telescopes mainly in the Infrared. motioflores@cua.edu
Paola Oliva
Secretary
Paola is a Honduran national based in Australia. She did doctoral and postdoctoral studies at Swinburne University of Technology, is an expert in spectroscopy, IFUs, and statistical analysis using data from the SDSS. Her field of study is galaxy formation and evolution. She left the academy in 2018 and currently, she is dedicated to artificial intelligence studies, she works for Our Community in Melboure using machine learning and natural language processing to analyze data in the Australian social sector.
Edoardo Tescari
Treasurer
Edoardo Tescari is a specialist data researcher in the team of Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) at the University of Melbourne. Before joining MDAP, he worked as a researcher in astrophysics at different institutions and universities in Australia and Europe. His research includes processing and analysis of large-scale cosmological simulations with the aim of studying galactic formation and evolution, and the interaction between galaxies and the intergalactic environment.
Marianela Quirós-Rojas
Vocal I
PhD student in astrophysics at Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico. Her work focuses on the study of the interstellar medium and star formation in submillimeter galaxies at high redshift. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Universidad de Costa Rica and a Master's degree in Astrophysics from INAOE.
Eduardo Rodas-Quito
Vocal II
A national from Honduras, he holds a Master degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), currently an Assistant Profesor in the Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy Department at UNAH. Among his research topics are the study of the relationship between astronomical events and cultural features of the Maya and Egyptian cultures, and the study in radioastronomy of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs), the latter in a collaborative project with the University of Virginia.
Edwin Santiago-Leandro
Vocal III
Graduated from the Physics career at the University of Costa Rica. He is currently pursuing an Academic Master's Degree in Astrophysics at the University of Costa Rica. He has worked on gravitational lensing projects, and is currently working on a project on momentum kicks in black holes generated by asymmetric supernova explosions. He has also taught introductory physics courses at the University of Costa Rica.