Mayra Osorio

Anglada et al. 2017, ApJ, 850, L6

ALMA Discovery of Dust Belts Around Proxima Centauri
ESO press release
ALMA descubre polvo frio alrededor de la estrella mas cercana
Descubiertos los restos de la formacion de un sistema planetario en torno a la estrella mas cercana

ADS Publications

I am an astronomer of Mexican origin working at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain since 2002. My research is focused on the origin of planets and stars. I am in the group of radioastronomers led by Guillem Anglada Pons where I am in charge of calculating radiative transfer models to interpret radio observations. I have special interest in detecting and predicting signatures of protoplanets. I am also interesting in massive and triggered star formation. My favorite objects are in Sagittarius, Taurus and Orion. Actually, Orion is an excellent laboratory to study the processes that lead to the formation of stars and planets due to its members having a diversity of ranges of masses and ages, all of them located at a common distance. Also I belong to the Herschel Orion Protostellar Survey (HOPS) team, led by Tom Megeath (USA), where we try to understand the complex Orion protostars using observations taken with different instruments (Herschel, HST, Spitzer, APEX, ALMA, SOFIA, VLA, etc).

Background

BS, University of Veracruz, Mexico;
PhD Thesis Hot Molecular Cores and the Formation of Massive Stars
Mayra Osorio, 2000, Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), advisor: Susana Lizano;
Thesis awarded with the Weizmann Prize 2002 as the best PhD thesis in the area of Exact Sciences Academia mexicana de Ciencias
Past Postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Past Peter Gruber Fellow PGF
,PGF-IAU
Past member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores en Mexico (SNI)

Long time collaborators in Spain: Guillem Anglada, Jose F. Gomez, Jose Maria Torrelles, Josep Miquel Girart, Robert Estalella; in Mexico: Luis Felipe Rodriguez, Susana Lizano, Paola D'Alessio Vessuri(+) and in USA: Nuria Calvet
I am glad to have helped in the PhD and/or Master preparation of Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Juan Manuel Mayen-Gijon, Francisco J. Perez-Caceres, Josep Maria Masque, Jose Ignacio Anez, Enrique Macias, and Ana K. Diaz-Rodriguez
I am member of "Comision Mujer y Astronomia de la SEA" and IAA, SEA webpage
and also member of the "Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy" and "Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe" of the IAU IAU webpage