Jorge Cuadra

Research Topics:

• Gas dynamics in the Galactic Centre
• Proto-planetary discs
• Massive black hole binaries
• Star formation and dynamics in galactic nuclei

CV:

• 2015-...: Associate Professor at P. Universidad Católica (PUC), Santiago, Chile.
• 2010-2015: Assistant Professor at PUC
• 2008-2010: Joint postdoctoral position between the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Garching, Germany, and the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), China.
• 2006-2008: Research Associate at JILA, University of Colorado, US.
• 2002-2006: PhD at MPA.
• 1998-2001: Degree in Astronomy (Licenciatura) at PUC.
• 1996-2000: Studies in Engineering and Computer Science at PUC.

Current Responsibilities:

• Head of the Max Planck Partner Group on the Galactic Centre (see news article, in Spanish)
• Associate Researcher at the Millennium Nucleus on Protoplanetary Discs
• Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Physics, PUC (restricted access)
• Director for Research of the Institute of Astrophysics (IA), PUC
• Editor of the Annual Reports of the IA

Recent publications:

• Modeling the thermal X-ray emission around the Galactic centre from colliding Wolf-Rayet winds
  (Russell, Wang, Cuadra, MNRAS submitted)
• Spiral Waves Triggered by Shadows in Transition Disks
  (Montesinos+, ApJ submitted)
• Resolving the Planetesimal Belt of HR 8799 with ALMA
  (Booth+, MNRAS submitted)
• SDSS J0159+0105: A Radio-Quiet Quasar with a Centi-Parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate
  (Zheng+, ApJ submitted)
• Probing dark matter crests with white dwarfs and IMBHs
  (Amaro-Seoane+, MNRAS submitted)
• Stability of Gas Clouds in Galactic Nuclei: An Extended Virial Theorem
  (Chen, Amaro-Seoane, Cuadra, ApJ submitted)
• Clump formation through colliding stellar winds in the Galactic Centre
  (Calderón, Ballone, Cuadra+, MNRAS 2016)
• Infalling clouds onto super-massive black hole binaries - I. Formation of discs, accretion and gas dynamics
  (Goicovic, Cuadra+, MNRAS 2016)
• Accretion kinematics through the warped transition disk in HD142527 from resolved CO(6-5) observations
  (Casassus+, ApJ 2015)
• Supermassive Black Holes in a Star-forming Gaseous Circumnuclear Disk
  (Del Valle+, ApJ 2015)
• Protoplanetary disks including radiative feedback from accreting planets
  (Montesinos, Cuadra+, ApJ 2015)
• The role of feedback in accretion on Low Luminosity AGN: Sgr A* case study
  (Cuadra+, MNRAS 2015)
• Precession and accretion in circumbinary discs: The case of HD 104237
  (Dunhill, Cuadra+, MNRAS 2015)