About me
I am a Colombian astronomer doing research on young massive stars and their effect on planet formation. Since 2019 I am an independent postdoc at the PSF department of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, and since 2021 I am co-leading the XUE collaboration. I obtained my PhD at the Anton Pannekoek Institute (API), University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands under the supervision of Lex Kaper and Alex de Koter (you can access my PhD thesis here ). My current research interests include the formation and early evolution of massive stars, the properties of remnant disks around massive young stellar objects, the insterstellar environment in high mass star forming regions, and the effect of their high UV radiation on planet-forming disks. You can see a PDF with my CV here.