CV

Work experience

2023 - Present: Head of Research Software Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

• GitHub University
• Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
• Publication and Contributions
  • tst
• Other activities
  • Sponsorship co-chair for RSECon25 (Nov 24 - April 25)
  • Programme co-chair for RSECon25 (May 25 - Sept 25), hosted by the University of Warwick, UK
  • Programme co-chair for RSECon26 (Sept 25 - present), hosted by the University of Sheffield, UK
  • Editor for the Journal of Open Source Software (October 25 - present)
• Awards
  • Finalist of the 2025 Rising star award, RSE Society, UK. This national award goes to an individual who is at an early career stage, or has only recently started doing RSE work, but who has already made an outstanding contribution to their team, project or institution.
  • RSECon26 host city, Won the hosting of the RSECon26 conference for the University of Sheffield.

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2020 - 2023: Staff Astronomer / Project Manager at the European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile

As staff astronomer, the distribution of work was the following: 70% Observatory duties at the Very Large Telescope

• Observatory work
  • Creator, lead developer and team lead of the SCUBA project.
  • Instrument scientist of the VISIR instrument
  • Operation of the VLT UT1 and UT2 telescopes
• Supervision and teaching
  • Internship supervisor: Javiera Moreno (SCUBA project, Universidad Federico Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile
  • Internship supervisor: Joaquin Hernandez (VISIR/SCUBA project, returning student), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • ESO lecture serie: Galaxy deep surveys, ESO chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Internship supervisor: Carolina Morales (GRAVITY/SCUBA project), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Internship supervisor: Joaquin Hernandez (SCUBA project), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Invited lecture: From galaxy observations to galaxy evolution (PhD level), Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
• Publication and Contributions
  • test
• Other activities
  • ESO spectroscopic surveys: past, present and future of galaxy evolution, ESO, Santiago, Chile. Member of the Local Organizing Committee

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2017-2020: Fellow at the European Southern Observatory

Fellow at the European Southern Observatory have 50% of their time dedicated to science and 50% of their time dedicated to observatory duties

• Observatory work
  • test
• Publication and Contributions
  • test
• Supervision and teaching
  • Master Internship Co-Supervisor: Francis Tang (ATACAMA project), ESO, Santiago, Chile
• Other activities
  • PRINT: Python foR dummIes iN quaranTine (ESO remote python bootcamp during COVID-19 pandemic), ESO, Santiago, Chile. Main organizer (30+ participants), multiple talks.
  • ESOpy3.0 : A workshop about Python for Astronomy at ESO (>30 participants), Chair, Santiago, Chile
  • The La Silla Observatory - from the inauguration to the future, ESO, La Serena, Chile. Member of the Local Organising Committee
  • ESOpy2.0 : A workshop about Python for Astronomy at ESO (>30 participants), Chair, Santiago, Chile

2015-2017: Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Valparaiso, Chile

• GitHub University

Education

• Ph.D in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University Aix Marseille, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, 2014
• Master in Fundamental Physics, University Lyon 1, 2011
• Bachelor in Fundamental Physics, Universite Paris-Sud XI, 2009