Numerical Hydrodynamics Group 

We study different astrophysical systems, from planets to super-massive black holes, using hydrodynamical simulations and other tools.

Former members:

• Matías Montesinos, now a postdoc at U de Chile.
• Alex Dunhill, now a postdoc at the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, UCLAN, UK.
• Sofía Gallego, now a PhD student at ETH Zürich.

Job and research opportunities:

• There are no postdoctoral positions currently available in our group, but calls are posted every year at the AAS job register.  Feel free to contact us for details.
• To apply to the graduate programme of our Institute, please check this webpage (español acá).
• Students already at PUC feel free to contact us at any time for possible theses or shorter research projects.

National Collaborations:

We are part of the "Millenium ALMA Discs (MAD)" nucleus, that focuses on discs and planet formation (funding: Millennium Science Initiative, Chilean Ministry of Economy: Nucleus RC130007).

We are also part of the "Embiggen" collaboration, that studies the role of mergers on the growth of both black holes and galaxies (funding: CONICYT-Chile Anillo ACT1101).

International Collaborations:

We have strong collaborations, including frequent visits in both directions, with members of

• the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity group at the Albert-Einstein-Institut in Potsdam,
• the Galactic Centre and the Physics of Galactic Nuclei groups at the MPE in Garching,
• the Theoretical Astrophysics group at the University of Leicester,
• the Radio Astronomy / VLBI group at the MPIfR in Bonn,
  
• the Magnetohydrodynamics and Turbulence group at the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam.
  

Supporting Grants:

• FONDECYT Regular Project: Episodic feeding of accreting objects: from massive black hole growth to planet formation.
• ALMA-CONICYT Grant: Postdoctoral position on ALMA-related Numerical Astrophysics.
• FONDECYT Postdoctoral Project: Exoplanetary systems dynamics.
• CONICYT-Basal Grant: Centro de Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines.
• CONICYT-DAAD Exchange Grant: Magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of a molecular cloud falling onto single and binary super-massive black holes.
• CONICYT Network Grant: Chile–Max Planck Network on Super-Massive Black Hole Binaries.