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Employment

2023-Present : Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy.

Education

2018-2022: PhD in Astronomy at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany. PhD Advisor: Dr. Mario Flock.
2016-2018: MSc in Astronomy at the University of Chile. MSc Advisors: Prof. Simón Casassus, Prof. Sebastián Pérez, and Dr. Clément Baruteau.
2012-2016: BSc in Astronomy at the University of Chile.

Publications

Barraza-Alfaro, M., Flock, M., Béthune, W., Teague, R., & exoALMA collaboration . 'exoALMA XVI: Predicting signatures of large-scale turbulence in protoplanetary disks'. Submitted to ApJ Letters.
Barraza-Alfaro, M., Flock, M., & Henning, T. 2024, A&A, 683, A16. 'Kinematic signatures of planet-disk interactions in vertical shear instability-turbulent protoplanetary disks'.
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'.

Full list of publications: My ADS Library.

Talks & Seminars

(Dec. 2024) Seminar of the Department of Astronomy, University of La Serena, Chile.
(Mar. 2024) From Star to Planet Formation workshop.
(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