Personal info Santiago Vargas Domínguez CONTACT ADDRESS: University College London Mullard Space Science Laboratory Holmbury St. Mary Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT UK C/ Cataluña, 30, 4-33 46520 Puerto de Sagunto, Valencia SPAIN PHONE +44 7552 791934 EMAIL svd@mssl.ucl.ac.uk WEB www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~svd Age: 32 Place of birth: Bogotá, Colombia Nationality: Colombian Marital status: Married Profile Throughout my scientific experience I have dealt with acquisition and analysis of both solar and stellar data, including numerical simulations and modeling. Solar physics has been the main subject of my investigations since my PhD project which included an instrumental branch devoted to some extend to the characterization, modeling and analysis of instrumental aberrations among others. I also have a strong background on image processing and image restoration techniques for solar data working with ground-based and space facilities. Great motivation and learning capacity are major concerns in my ongoing research. Education University degrees UNIVERSITY OF LA LAGUNA, TENERIFE, SPAIN 2004-2008 PhD. on Astrophysics, Doctor Europeus mention Thesis dissertation: Study of horizontal flows in solar active regions based on high-resolution image restoration techniques UNIVERSITY OF LA LAGUNA, TENERIFE, SPAIN 2003-2004 MSc. on Astrophysics (Advanced Studies Diploma DEA). Research Project: Spatial Distribution of Stellar Populations in the Spiral Galaxy M33 from the Local Group UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 1995-1999 Bachelor Degree in Physics Graduation project: Neutron Stars: Study, Observations an a Magnetohydrodynamic Structural Model Other courses SOLAR PHYSICS & UPPER-ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH GROUP ORGANIZED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD), MALLORCA, SPAIN, SEPT 2006 Advanced Summer School in Solar Physics. INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS, TENERIFE, SPAIN JUNE 2005 HTML/XHTML course INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS ORGANIZED BY RSI RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC. TENERIFE, SPAIN SEPT 2004 IDL course UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL DE ANDALUCIA, SEPT 2003 Summer course on Evolution of the Universe INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS, TENERIFE, SPAIN JUNE 2003 IRAF course THE ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS, TRIESTE, ITALY, JUN-JUL 2002 Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA, VIENNA, MARCH-JUL 2002 German course DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, ENGLAND, UK, FEB-OCT 2001 Full-time English Language course
Research Interests Solar Physics. Solar Magnetic Fields. Dynamics, topology and evolution of solar structures. Solar active regions. Solar instrumentation. Image quality. Image restoration techniques. Scientific and Academic Experience UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY, UK, 2009 - PRESENT Research fellow Member of the Solar Group at the Department of Space & Climate Physics, the leading institution that developed one of the instruments onboard the solar space satellite HINODE.. Data analysis of satellite solar data UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT, DUTCH OPEN TELESCOPE (DOT) OBSERVATORIO ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS, LA PALMA, SPAIN, 2008 (SECOND HALF) Postdoctoral researcher Support astronomer for the 2008 telescope observing campaigns INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS, TENERIFE, SPAIN 2004-2008 Solar Physics Group Imaging Magnetograph experiment (IMaX) Group Doctoral fellow Research project on image restoration and studies on solar active regions. INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS, TENERIFE, SPAIN 2003-2004 Stellar Populations and Dark Matter in Galaxies Group Research project on large scale distribution of stellar population in the M33 Halo. UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES, CONTINUOUS EDUCATION OFFICE, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 1999-2000 Designing and Teaching, Astronomy Course. UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, COLOMBIA 1999-2000 Teaching the large Physics Courses for Engineering students. UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES, HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP, COLOMBIA, 1997-1999 Graduate Assistant, Researcher Detection and Analysis of Cosmic Rays in Bogotá INSTITUTO COLOMBIANO DE FOMENTO DE LA EDUCACION SUPERIOR, COLOMBIA 1999 Developing Physics test for large-scale assessment of education in the country. COLOMBIAN PHYSICS OLIMPIADES, COLOMBIA, 1997-1999 Physics Trainer of the Colombian Team participating every year in the International Physics Olimpiades. Seminars & Workshops ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY SPECIALIST DISCUSSION MEETING, UK - JULY 2010 A new generation of UK space exploration NATIONAL ASTRONOMY MEETING, GLASGOW, UK - APRIL 2010 Contribution: Convective plasma around solar pores Contribution: The Solar-C space mission FLUX EMERGENCE WORKSHOP. MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LAB. UCL. MARCH 2009 Contribution: "Shearing motions on Hinode 4th July active region 3RD HINODE SCIENCE MEETING. TOKIO, JAPAN DECEMBER 2009 Contribution: "Observation of vortex motion in the solar photosphere using HINODE.SP Contribution: "Structure of small magnetic elements in the solar atmosphere OCTOBER 2004 Astronomy & Astrophysics seminar Contribution: "Solar physics research II SOLAR AND HELIOSPHERIC PHYSICS SPANISH MEETING, PALMA DE MALLORCA SPAIN, SEP 2009 Contribution: Multi-wavelength analysis of bright points in the solar atmosphere Page 2
HINODE EIS UK MEETING. LONDON, UK JULY 2009 Contribution: "A sneak peek at data from SUNRISE 3RD SOLAR ORBITER WORKSHOP. SORRENTO, ITALY MAY 2009 Contribution: "Small magnetic elements and SO-PHI" OBSERVATORIO ROQUE DE LOS MUCHACHOS, LA PALMA, SPAIN OCTOBER 2007 Utrech-Stockholm-Oslo (USO) seminar Contribution: "Measuring horizontal proper motions of the solar photosphere" INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS, PUERTO DE LA CRUZ, SPAIN JUNE 2007 I Dia de la Ciencia Contribution: ' Manchas solares, más simples de lo que creiamos". NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN, TOKIO, JAPAN APRIL 2007 Initial Results from HINODE Contribution: "Moat flow as the continuation of the Evershed Flow". EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS ACADEMY OF ATHENS & NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS ATHENS, GREECE OCTOBER 2006 Second Solar Orbiter Workshop Contribution: "Evidence of an association between the presence of penumbra and strong radial outflows in sunspots" DONOSTIA INTERNATIOAL PHYSICS CENTER, SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN SEPTEMBER 2005 Albert Einstein Annus Mirabilis Workshop KIPENHEUR-INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK (KIS), FREIBURG, GERMANY SEPTEMBER 2004 International Sunrise Meeting Contribution: "Image quality in Sunrise". AUGUST 2004 Astronomy & Astrophysics seminar Contribution: "Stellar populations in the spiral galaxy from the Local Group M33" ROYAL OBSERVATORY EDINBURGH, EDINBURGH, UK, SEPTEMBER 2002 Annual Workshop The Invisible Universe ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY, BIRMINGHAM, UK AUGUST 2001 Annual Conference 2001 "Astrochemistry of Life" UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK AUGUST 2001 Omega Centauri Workshop NOVEMBER1998 High Energy Physics Seminar Contribution: "Atmospheric- Muons Telescope" 1995-200 Seminars on Physics Observational experience HINODE SPACE SATELLITE Observing proposals and collaborations 2007 - Present DUTCH OPEN TELESCOPE (DOT) Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain Support astronomer during several observing campaigns Aug - Nov 2008 Page 3
SWEDISH SOLAR TELESCOPE (SST) Observatorio Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma,Spain * Title of proposal: Quiet Sun and active regions magnetism. Jul 2010 * Title of proposal: Quiet Sun and active regions magnetism. Coordinated observations with HINODE (space satellite) Jun - Jul 2009 * Title of proposal: Quiet Sun and active regions magnetism. Coordinated observations with HINODE (space satellite) Sep - Oct 2007 * Title of proposal: Fine scale polarization in the solar granulation. October 2006 * Title of proposal: Fine magnetic structure as the origin of coronal heating and activities. International Time Program (ITP). July 2005 * Title of proposal: G-band observations of filament channels. Coordinated observations with VTT, DOT, TRACE,SOHO. April 2004 MONS 50-CM TELESCOPE Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain * Night observations for public engagement. 2003-2008 International Collaborations Three weeks in 2010 working at the NorhWest Research Associates Inc (Colorado Research Associates) working with K.D Leka and Graham Barnes on disambiguation of solar vector magnetogram data. Three months in 2009 at the Imaging Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia working with Vicente Domingo on the analysis of small magnetic features on the solar surface. Three months in 2008 working at the Institute of Solar Physics associated with the Stockholm University through the Stockholm Observatory working with Mats Löfdahl and Michiel van Noort on image restoration techniques and high-resolution data. Ongoing collaborations with: Valentín Martínez Pillet, Jose A. Bonet at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain) Luis Bellot at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia (Spain) Alberto Sainz Dalda at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (USA) Salvo Gugliemino at University of Catania (Italy) Laura Balmaceda at ICATE.-CONICET (Argentina) Vicente Domingo, Image Processing Laboratory (Spain) Vasilis Archontis, St Andrews University (UK) Page 4
Referred Publications Emergence of chromospheric small-scale bubbles in a solar active region S. Vargas Domínguez, L. van Driel-Gesztelyi, L. Bellot Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 (in preparation) Shearing motions during flux emergence S. Vargas Domínguez, V. Archontis, A. Hood Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 (in preparation) Coronal Signatures of a sunspot light.bridge S. Matthews, D. Baker, S. Vargas Domínguez Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 (in preparation) Is a naked sunspot really naked? A. Sainz Dalda, S. Vargas Domínguez, V. Martínez Pillet, J. A. Bonet Astrophysical Journal, 2010 (in preparation) Evolution of a quiet sun region under the influence of small-scale convective vortex flow. S. Vargas Domínguez, J. Palacios, L. Balmaceda, I. Cabello, V. Domingo. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 (submitted) Multiwavelength observations of small-scale magnetic reconnection events triggered by magnetic flux emergence in the solar atmosphere. S. L. Gugliemino, L. R. Bellot Rubio, F. Zucarello, G. Aulanier,, S. Vargas Domínguez, S. Kamio Astrophysical Journal 2010 (submitted) Retrieval of solar magnetic fields from high-spatial resolution filtergraph data: the Imaging Magnetograph experiment D. Orozco Suárez, L. R. Bellot Rubio, V. Martínez Pillet, J. A. Bonet,, S. Vargas Domínguez, J- C. del Toro Iniesta. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 (submitted) Characterization of horizontal flows around solar pores from high-resolution time series of images S. Vargas Domínguez, A. de Vicente, J. A. Bonet, V. Martínez Pillet Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009 (in press) Evidence for small-scale magnetic concentrations dragged by vortex motion of the solar photospheric plasma L. Balmaceda, J. Palaciones, I. Cabello, S. Vargas Domínguez, Astrophysical Journal, 2010 Moat flow in the vicinity of sunspots for various penumbral configurations S. Vargas Domínguez, L.Rouppe van der Voort, J. A. Bonet, V. Martínez Pillet, M. van Noort, Y. Katsukawa. Astrophysical Journal, 2008 On the moat - penumbra relation S. Vargas Domínguez, J. A. Bonet, V. Martínez Pillet, Y. Katsukawa, Y. Kitakoshi, L.Rouppe van der Voort Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 2007. Relationships between magnetic foot points and G-band bright structures R. Ishikawa, S. Tsuneta, Y. Kitakoshi, Y. Katsukawa, J.A. Bonet, S. Vargas Domínguez, L.H.M.Rouppe van der Voort, Y. Sakamoto and T.Ebisuzaki Astronomy and Astrophysics,, 2007. Conference proceedings and others Sunspot light-bridges. - a bridge between the photosphere and the corona? S. Matthews, D. Baker, S. Vargas Domínguez, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 2010 (submitted) Structure of small magnetic elements in the solar photosphere V. Domingo, J. Palacios, I. Cabello, L. Balmaceda,, S. Vargas Domínguez, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 2010 (submitted) Page 5
Observations of vortex motion in the solar photosphere using HINODE-SP data J. Palacios, L. Balmaceda, S. Vargas Domínguez, I. Cabello, V. Domingo. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 2010 (submitted) Stellar Populations in the spiral galaxy from the Local Group M33: I. Central region S. Vargas Domínguez Colombian Journal of Physics, 2010 (submitted) Study of horizontal flows in solar active regions based on high-resolution image reconstruction techniques S. Vargas Domínguez PhD Thesis - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain. 2008. Evidence of an association between the penumbra and strong radial outflows in sunspots S. Vargas Domínguez, J.A. Bonet Navarro, V. Martínez Pillet Proc. Second Solar Orbiter Workshop, 2006. From simulations and IMaX observations to the VIM design D. Orozco Suárez, L.R. Bellot Rubio, S. Vargas Domínguez, J.A. Bonet Navarro, V. Martínez Pillet Proc. Second Solar Orbiter Workshop, 2006. Spatial Distribution of Stellar Populations in the Spiral Galaxy M33 from the Local Group Master thesis - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain March 2004. Neutron Stars: Study, Observations an a Magnetohydrodynamic Structural Model Undergraduate project University of Los Andes - Bogotá, Colombia. 1999. Awards Best poster prize at the National Astronomy Meeting, Royal Astronomical Society, Glagow, UK, 2010 Doctor europeus mention - PhD on Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 2008 Spanish Ministry Grant for doctoral studies, Formación de Personal Investigador, at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 2004-2008 Stellar Popullations Group Fellowship for MSc. project, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, 2002 Colombian Physics and Mathematics Olimpiades. Finalist in national competitions 1992-1995 Skills LANGUAGES: Spanish and English (fluent) / German and Italian (fair) PROGRAMMING: C++, Fortran 90, Pascal, IDL, IRAF, MatLab, Mapple, Mathematica, OPERATIVE SYSTEMS: Windows, Linux, MacOS X OFFIMATICS: Microsoft Office, Open Office, iwork, LaTeX, Adobe Photoshop and Flash player CS4, web site design and maintenance. Media & Outreach I have contributed to some programmes. SkyNews (TV) and the London s Biggest Conversation (radio) in the UK. Teaching astronomy courses for children Solar exploration presentation as part of the London International Youth Science Forum visit to the Mulllard Space Science Laboratory (August 2009) Page 6
Others Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, UK Member of the British Science Association, UK Referrals Sarah Matthews Mullard Space Science Laboratoty, University College London, UK e-mail: sam@mssl.ucl.ac.uk Valentín Martínez Pillet Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Tenerife, Spain e-mail: vpm@iac.es Jose A. Bonet Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain e-mail: jab@iac.es Page 7