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1 SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE May 2014 PERSONAL Name : Leopoldo Infante Current Work Place : P. Universidad Católica de Chile, (P.U.C.) Physics Faculty Address : Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, , Santiago, Chile Phone (office) : (56-2) FAX : (56-2) [email protected] DEGREES Ph.D. Physics/Astronomy March 1990 University of Victoria, Canada M.Sc. Physics/Astronomy March 1985 University of Victoria, Canada Licenciatura Physics May 1982 Universidad Católica, Chile WORK EXPERIENCE Director Center of Astro - Engineering, PUC, (2009 -) President Chilean Astronomical Society, SOCHIAS, ( ) Visiting Scientist Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, (2007) Visiting Astronomer European Southern Observatory, Germany, (2007) Visiting Professor Johns Hopkins University, USA, (2007) Director Department of Astronomy y Astrophysics., P.U.C. ( ) Full Professor P. Universidad Católica de Chile. (2006 -) Associate Professor P. Universidad Católica de Chile. ( ) Associate Scientist European Southern Observatory, Germany (2001) Visiting Professor Princeton University, NJ, USA, (1999) D.A.A.D Fellow University of Bonn, Germany. (1994) Assistant Professor P. Universidad Católica de Chile. ( ) Visiting Astronomer Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. (1990) Visiting Astronomer European Southern Observatory. (1990) EXPERIENCE Research Projects BASAL: Founder, PI Research Area 1 (2008-) FONDAP: Founder, P.U.C. Responsible, PI of Research Area 1 ( , ) FONDECYT: 5 Grants as PI and 2 Grants as CoI, ( ) CONICYT: Grants CNRi (Italy), CNRS (France) and CSIC (Spain) P. Universidad Católica, 4 FONDEDOC, 1 Puente ( ) Observer Visiting astronomer at ESO, CTIO, CARSO, CFHT, KPNO, APO (1980-) Teaching PIRE (NSF) Summer School, Cape Town, South Africa (2008), lecturer Physics and Astronomy, undergraduate and graduate levels. (1990-) SCS Princeton Summer School (2006), lecturer Thesis Advisor 12 P.U.C. undergraduate students, 4 P.U.C. graduate students (MSc, PhD) (1990-), 2 P.U.C. graduate students (2008, in progress), Supervisor PhD student at Bonn University, Germany. PhD thesis external examiner at P.U.C., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Universidad de San Paulo, Brazil,

2 Conferences Participation in more than 50 scientific conferences, (1985-) Organizer, Proceedings Editor and member of scientific committees. Organizer, Proceedings Editor of summer and winter schools. Committees Chile ESO Comité Mixto (2010-) Chair APEX-Chile TAC ( ), OPC (ESO, 2007-), NSF science panel (2007, USA), FONDECYT (Conicyt) Grant assignment Study Group, ( ) CONICYT Astronomy advisory committee, ( ); ALMA committee ( ) Gemini Observatory TAC committee ( ), served as president CTIO-LCO TAC committee ( ) PUC Physics Faculty Board ( ), Dean search committee (2002), Founder of the Chilean Astronomical Society, Etc. Referee ISI journals (e.g. Astrophysical Journal), Research grants (Fondecyt, Conicyt, CSIC Spain, U. of Concepción, Fundación Andes, Fapesp Brazil, U. de Valparaiso etc.) Gemini, CTIO, LCO telescope time assigning committee Outreach Delivered more 150 talks in schools, universities, institutions, etc. Production of the video Cien años luz (2003) Production of the exhibition Cien años luz (2004) Infrastructure Conception, Design and Fund raising for the P.U.C. Astronomy and Astrophysics Department new building (2004) Conception, Design and Fund raising for the P.U.C. Teaching Observatory facilities in Santa Martina. (2004) Founder, Conception, Fund raising Fondap PUC Instrumentation and Data Center PUBLICATIONS Refereed ISI Journals 186 publications Other 141 publications Citations 7887 H Index 51 AWARDS 2012 Bco Santander UC China award "Guggenheim Fellow", NY, USA "Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)", University of Bonn, Germany "Special Dean's research and Travel award", UVIC, Canada "R.M. Petrie Memorial Fellowship", UVIC, Canada "Presidente de la Republica" scholarship, Chile. SOCIETIES - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - American Astronomical Society - American Institute of Physics - International Astronomical Union -SOCHIAS (Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía y Astrofísica)

3 Refereed Publications L. Infante May Grillo C., et al., 2014, ApJ, 786, Patel B., et al., 2014, ApJ, 786, 9 3. Jee M.J., Hughes J.P., Menanteau F., Sifón C., Mandelbaum R., Barrientos L.F., Infante L., Ng K.Y., 2014, ApJ, 785, González-López J., et al., 2014, ApJ, 784, López-Sanjuan C., et al., 2014, A&A, 564, A Smit R., et al., 2014, ApJ, 784, Yang H., Wang J., Zheng Z.-Y., Malhotra S., Rhoads J.E., Infante L., 2014, ApJ, 784, Vanzella E., et al., 2014, ApJ, 783, L12 9. Monna A., et al., 2014, MNRAS, 438, Jouvel S., et al., 2014, A&A, 562, A Hilton, M., Hasselfield, M., Sifón, C., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 435, Povic, M., Huertas-Company, M., Aguerri, J.A.L., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 435, Medezinski, E., Umetsu, K., Nonino, M., et al. 2013, ApJ, 777, Balestra, I., Vanzella, E., Rosati, P., et al. 2013, AAP, 559, L9 15. Oteo, I., Magdis, G., Bongiovanni, A., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 435, Sievers, J.L., Hlozek, R. A., Nolta, M. R., et al. 2013, JCAP, 10, Lemze, D., Postman, M., Genel, S., et al. 2013, ApJ, 776, Eichner, T., Seitz, S., Suyu, S.H., et al. 2013, ApJ, 774, Matute, I., Masegosa, J., Márquez, I., et al. 2013, AAP, 557, A Oteo, I., Bongiovanni, A., Cepa, J., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 433, Hasselfield, M., Hilton, M., Marriage, T.A., et al. 2013, JCAP, 7, Sifón, C., Menanteau, F., Hasselfield, M., et al. 2013, ApJ, 772, Lyubenova, M., van den Bosch, R. C. E., Coté, P., et al. 2013, MNRAS, Zitrin, A., Menanteau, F., Hughes, J.~P., et al.\ 2013, ApJl, 770, L Bielby, R., Hill, M. D., Shanks, T., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 430, Miyatake, H., Nishizawa, A.J., Takada, M., et al. 2013, MNRAS, 429, Menanteau, F., Sifón, C., Barrientos, L.~F., et al. 2013, ApJ, 765, Dunner, R., and 73 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Data Characterization and Mapmaking. ApJ 762, Zheng, W., and 35 colleagues A magnified young galaxy from about 500 million years after the Big Bang. Nature 489, Coe, D., and 45 colleagues CLASH: Precise New Constraints on the Mass Profile of the Galaxy Cluster A2261. ApJ 757, Umetsu, K., and 47 colleagues CLASH: Mass Distribution in and around MACS J from a Full Cluster Lensing Analysis. ApJ 755, Hand, N., and 57 colleagues Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Motions with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect. Physical Review Letters 109, Matute, I., and 23 colleagues Quasi-stellar objects in the ALHAMBRA survey. I. Photometric redshift accuracy based on 23 optical-nir filter photometry. AA 542, A Postman, M., and 44 colleagues The Cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey with Hubble: An Overview. ApJs 199, Zitrin, A., and 47 colleagues CLASH: New Multiple Images Constraining the Inner Mass Profile of MACS J ApJ 749, Menanteau, F., and 26 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: ACT-CL J ''El Gordo,'' a Massive Merging Cluster at Redshift ApJ 748, Aparicio Villegas, T., and 21 colleagues Stellar physics with the ALHAMBRA photometric system. Journal of Physics Conference Series 328, Zitrin, A., and 40 colleagues The Cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH): Stronglensing Analysis of A383 from 16-band HST/WFC3/ACS Imaging. ApJ 742, 117.

4 39. Hajian, A., and 66 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Calibration with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Using Cross-correlations. ApJ 740, Dunkley, J., and 66 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological Parameters from the 2008 Power Spectrum. ApJ 739, Marriage, T. A., and 70 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-Selected Galaxy Clusters at 148 GHz in the 2008 Survey. ApJ 737, Frank, M. J., M. Hilker, S. Mieske, H. Baumgardt, E. K. Grebel, and L. Infante Spatially resolved kinematics of an ultracompact dwarf galaxy. MNRAS 414, L70-L Crighton, N. H. M., and 17 colleagues The VLT LBG Redshift Survey- II. Interactions between galaxies and the IGM at z ~ 3. MNRAS 414, Bielby, R. M., and 13 colleagues The VLT LBG Redshift Survey - I. Clustering and dynamics of ~1000 galaxies at z ~ 3. MNRAS 414, Sehgal, N., and 68 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect. ApJ 732, Chilingarian, I. V., S. Mieske, M. Hilker, and L. Infante Dynamical versus stellar masses of ultracompact dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster. MNRAS 412, Prieto, J., P. Padoan, R. Jimenez, and L. Infante Population III Stars from Turbulent Fragmentation at Redshift ~ 11. ApJl 731, L Marriage, T. A., and 68 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Extragalactic Sources at 148 GHz in the 2008 Survey. ApJ 731, Das, S., and 66 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum at 148 and 218 GHz from the 2008 Southern Survey. ApJ 729, Glass, L., and 10 colleagues The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. IV. Deprojection of the Surface Brightness Profiles of Early-type Galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Clusters: Investigating the ''Core/Power-law Dichotomy''. ApJ 726, Hincks, A. D., and 71 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam Profiles and First SZ Cluster Maps. ApJs 191, Menanteau, F., and 10 colleagues Southern Cosmology Survey. II. Massive Optically Selected Clusters from 70 Square Degrees of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Common Survey Area. ApJs 191, Padilla, N. D., D. Christlein, E. Gawiser, R. E. Gonzçlez, L. Guaita, and L. Infante Clustering and descendants of MUSYC galaxies at z < 1.5. MNRAS 409, Menanteau, F., and 50 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Physical Properties and Purity of a Galaxy Cluster Sample Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect. ApJ 723, Fowler, J. W., and 70 colleagues The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the 600 < l < 8000 Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum at 148 GHz. ApJ 722, Bongiovanni, A., and 60 colleagues Herschel FIR counterparts of selected Ly_alpha emitters at z \ ~ 2.2. Fast evolution since z \ ~ 3 or missed obscured AGNs?. AA 519, L Villegas, D., and 10 colleagues The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. VIII. The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters in Virgo and Fornax Early-type Galaxies and Its Use as a Distance Indicator. ApJ 717, Masters, K. L., A. Jordan, P. Cote, L. Ferrarese, J. P. Blakeslee, L. Infante, E. W. Peng, S. Mei, and M. J. West The Advanced Camera for Surveys Fornax Cluster Survey. VII. Half-light Radii of Globular Clusters in Early-type Galaxies. ApJ 715, Schuberth, Y., T. Richtler, M. Hilker, B. Dirsch, L. P. Bassino, J. Romanowsky, and L. Infante The globular cluster system of NGC V. dynamics of the cluster system out to 80 kpc. AA 513, A Aparicio Villegas, T., and 22 colleagues The ALHAMBRA Photometric System. AJ 139, Mieske, S., and 10 colleagues The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. IX. The Color-Magnitude Relation of Globular Cluster Systems. ApJ 710, Menanteau, F., J. P. Hughes, R. Jimenez, C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, L. Verde, A. Kosowsky, K. Moodley, L. Infante, and N. Roche Southern Cosmology Survey. I. Optical Cluster Detections and Predictions for the Southern Common-Area Millimeter-Wave Experiments. ApJ 698, Zheng, W., and 12 colleagues Bright Strongly Lensed Galaxies at Redshift z \ ~ 6-7 behind the Clusters Abell 1703 and CL ApJ 697, Cristùbal-Hornillos, D., and 21 colleagues Near-Infrared Galaxy Counts and Evolution from the Wide- Field ALHAMBRA Survey. ApJ 696,

5 65. Mieske, S., M. Hilker, I. Misgeld, A. Jordçn, L. Infante, and M. Kissler-Patig A search for massive ultracompact dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus galaxy cluster. AA 498, Blakeslee, J. P., A. Jordan, S. Mei, P. Cote, L. Ferrarese, L. Infante, E. W. Peng, J. L. Tonry, and M. J. West The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. V. Measurement and Recalibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuations and a Precise Value of the Fornax-Virgo Relative Distance. ApJ 694, Benitez, N., and 20 colleagues Optimal Filter Systems for Photometric Redshift Estimation. ApJl 692, L5- L8.

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