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Employment

2023- : Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EAPS/MIT).
2022: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) .

Education

2018-2022: PhD in Astronomy at Heidelberg University, working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) under the advice of Mario Flock.
2016-2018: MSc in Astronomy at Universidad de Chile, under the advice of Simón Casassus, Sebastián Pérez, and Clément Baruteau.
2012-2015: Undergraduate studies (BSc in Astronomy) at Universidad de Chile.

Publications

Barraza-Alfaro, M., Flock, T. Henning. 'Kinematic signatures of planet-disk interactions in VSI-turbulent protoplanetary disks'. Accepted to A&A.
Barraza-Alfaro, M., Flock, M., Marino, S., Pérez, S. 2021. A&A, 653, A113. 'Observability of the vertical shear instability in protoplanetary disk CO kinematics'.

Talks

(Dec. 2023) CfA Exoplanet Pizza Lunch, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
(April 2023) EAPS MIT Planetary Lunch Seminar.
(Nov. 2022) Vertical shear instability meeting.
(Dec. 2021) New paradigms for radiatively inefficient accretion disks, CCA, Flatiron Institute.
(Dec. 2021) Colloquium of the Physics Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (ICF-UNAM).
(Oct .2021) MIAPP 2021: Gaps, Rings, Spirals and Vortices: Structure Formation in Planet-Forming Disks.
(Dec. 2020) Five years after HL Tau, ESO.
(April 2020) Building Blocks of Planets, MPIA.
(Sept. 2019) From protoplanetary discs to planetary systems, MPIA.
(July 2019) Turbulence and Structure Formation in Protoplanetary Disks, MPIA.

Tools

Programming Languages: Python • C

Numerical Codes: PLUTO • RADMC3D • FARGO3D

Software: CASA • ParaView

Contact: mbarraza [at] mit [dot] edu