CURRICULUM VITAE
Roberto Pablo Muñoz

Nationality : Chilean

Marital status : Married

Place of birth : Arica, Chile

Degrees

PhD in Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2009.

Licenciature in Astronomy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004.

Education

2004-2009 PhD in Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

1999-2003 Licenciature in Astronomy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

1995-1998 High school, Colegio Eduardo Frei Montalva, Arica, Chile.

1987-1994 Primary school, Escuela Jose Miguel Carrera, Arica, Chile.

Research positions

2011- Postdoctoral researcher. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

2010-2011 Postdoctoral researcher. Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.

2009-2010 Postdoctoral researcher. Universidad de Valpara iso, Valpara iso, Chile.

Teaching activities at Universidad Católica de Chile

• Professor of the Center of Study and Development of Talent (PentaUC) Astrophysics course “Origen y destino del Universo: La historia narrada por las galaxias y sus estrellas”, 2nd term 2014.
• Professor of the Center of Study and Development of Talent (PentaUC) Astrophysics course “Del Big Bang al origen de la vida: Un breve recorrido por la historia del Universo”, 1st term 2014.
• Coordinator of Science course “Fronteras de la Ciencia”, 2nd term 2013 and 1st term 2014.
• Lecturer of Astronomy course of “Programa Adulto Mayor UC”, April 2013.
• Professor of the Center of Study and Development of Talent (PentaUC) Astrophysics course “Iluminando el lado oscuro del Universo: Cúmulos de galaxias y lentes gravitacionales”, 2nd term 2012.
• Professor of the Physics Faculty course “F isica para Ciencias” FIS109-C, 1st term 2012.
• Professor of the Center of Study and Development of Talent (PentaUC) Astrophysics course “Iluminando el lado oscuro del Universo: Cúmulos de galaxias y lentes gravitacionales”, 1st term 2012.
• Teaching assistant of Extragalactic Astrophysics course, 1st term 2006.
• Teaching assistant of Experimental Astronomy course, 2nd term 2005.
• Teaching assistant of Extragalactic Astrophysics course, 1st term 2005.
• Teaching assistant of Waves and Thermodynamics course, 1st term 2004.
• Teaching assistant of Electricity and Magnetism laboratory, 1st term 2003.
• Teaching assistant of General Astrophysics, 2nd term 2002.
• Teaching assistant of Waves and Thermodynamics laboratory, 1st term 2002.
• Teaching assistant of Classical Mechanics course and laboratory, 2nd term 2001.

Refereed Publications, Published or Submitted

• “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. The Kinematics Of Ultra-Compact Dwarfs And Globular Clusters In M87”. Zhang, H., Peng, E.W., Côté, P. et al., 2015, ApJ, 802, 30.
• “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey-Infrared (NGVS-IR). I. A New Near-Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-Infrared Globular Cluster Selection Tool”. Muñoz, R.P., Puzia, T.H., Lançon, A. et al., 2014, ApJS, 210, 4M.
• “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. The photometric redshift estimation for background sources”. Raichoor, A., Mei, S., Erben, T. et al., 2014, ApJ, 797, 102.
• “The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey. V. Modelling the dynamics of M87 with the Made-to-Measure method”. Zhu, L., Long, R. J., Mao, S. et al., 2014, ApJ, 792, 59.
• “Characterizing SL2S galaxy groups using the Einstein radius”. Verdugo, T., Motta, V.; Foëx, G. et al., 2014, A&A, 571, 65.
• “Dark matter-baryons separation at the lowest mass scale: the Bullet Group”. Gastaldello, F., Limousin, M., Foëx, G., Muñoz, R. P., Verdugo, T., Motta, V., More, A., Cabanac, R., Buote, D. A., Eckert, D., Ettori, S., Fritz, A., Ghizzardi, S., Humphrey, P. J., Meneghetti, M., Rossetti, M., 2014, MNRAS, 442, L76-L80.
• “Larger sizes of massive quiescent early-type galaxies in clusters than in the field at 0, 8 < z < 1,5”. Delaye, L., Huertas-Company, M., Mei, S., Lidman, C., Licitra, R., Newman, A., Raichoor, A., Shankar, F., Barrientos, F., Bernardi, M., Cerulo, P., Couch, W., Demarco, R., Muñoz, R., Snchez-Janssen, R., Tanaka, M., 2014, MNRAS, 441, 203D.
• “SARCS strong-lensing galaxy groups. I. Optical, weak lensing, and scaling laws”. Foëx, G., Motta, V., Limousin, M., Verdugo, T., More, A., Cabanac, R., Gavazzi, R., Muñoz, R. P., 2013, A&A, 559, A105.
• “Dynamical analysis of strong-lensing galaxy groups at intermediate redshift”. Muñoz, R.P., Motta, V., Verdugo, T., Garrido, F., Limousin, M., Padilla, N., Cabanac, R., Gavazzi, R., Barrientos, L.F., Richard, J., 2013, A&A, 552, A80.
• “Gravitational lensing and dynamics in SL2SJ02140-0535: probing the mass out to large radius”. Verdugo, T., Motta, V., Muñoz, R.P., Limousin, M., Cabanac, R., Richard, J., 2011, A&A, 527, 124.
• “A bright, spatially extended lensed galaxy at z=1.7 behind the cluster RCS2 032727-132623”. Wuyts, E., Barrientos, L.F., Gladders, M.D., Sharon, K., Bayliss, M.B., Carrasco, M., Gilbank, D., Yee, H.K.C., Koester, B.P., Muñoz, R., 2010, ApJ, 724, 1182.
• “On the accuracy of the high redshift cluster luminosity function”. Muñoz, R.P., Padilla, N.D., Barrientos, L.F., 2009, MNRAS, 392, 655.

Papers in preparation

• “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Properties Of Ultra-Compact Dwarfs In The M87, M49 And M60 Regions”. Liu, C. et al., to be submitted shortly to ApJ.
• “The Next Generation Fornax Cluster Survey (NGFS). I. On the spatial distribution of the globular clusters in the central region of Fornax cluster”. Muñoz, R.P. et al., to be submitted to ApJ.
• “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey-Infrared (NGVS-IR). II. The near-IR galaxy luminosity function of the central 20 deg² of the Virgo cluster”. Muñoz, R.P. et al., to be submitted to ApJ.

Scholarships, grants and prizes

• 2013 FONDECYT Postdoctoral grant. Principal investigator of the 3-year granted project “Obtaining the deepest-ever Galaxy Mass Function in a High-Density Environment”, October-2012 through October-2015.
• Fulbright-CONICYT fellowship. Spent 4 months at University of Chicago (IL, USA) as visiting research student collaborator under the supervision of Michael Gladders, July-2007 through November-2007.
• PUC-Princeton fellowship. Spent 6 months at Princeton University (NJ, USA) as visiting research student collaborator under the supervision of Scott Tremaine, September-2005 through March-2006.
• CONICYT scholarship for doing PhD studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004.
• Matricula de honor prize for scoring the highest national marks in Mathematics University entrance test, 1999.

Visit to scientific institutions

• Visiting researcher at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics on May-2012. Collaboration with Dr. Patrick Côté.
• Visiting research student collaborator at University of Chicago from July-2007 through November-2007. Research project directed by Prof. Michael Gladders.
• Visiting research student collaborator at Princeton University from September-2005 through March-2006. Research project directed by Prof. Scott Tremaine.

Workshops and seminars

• Tools for astronomical Big Data. Tucson, AZ, USA, 9-11 March 2015. Oral contribution.
• Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters in Chile. Santiago, Chile, 14-16 May 2014. Oral contribution.
• The mass profile of galaxy clusters from the core to the outskirts: the need for a multi-wavelength approach. Madonna di Campiglio, Trento, Italy, 18-22 March 2013. Poster contribution.
• 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Long Beach, CA, USA, 6-10 January 2013. Oral contribution.
• 10th annual meeting of Chilean astronomical society. Viña del Mar, Chile, 10-12 October 2012. Oral contribution.
• Next Generation Virgo Survey meeting 2011. Strasbourg, France, 22-24 June 2011. Oral contribution.
• CosmoFirstObjects: International meeting on high-z cosmology. Marseille, France, 3-6 May 2011.
• DUEL international conference: Ten years of cosmic shear. Edinburgh, Scotland, 18-23 July 2010. Poster contribution.
• 216th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Miami, FL, USA, 23-27 May 2010. Oral contribution.
• 8th annual meeting of Chilean astronomical society. Concepción, Chile, 18-20 January 2010. Poster contribution.
• Galaxy clusters in the early Universe. Pucón, Chile, 9-12 November 2009. Oral and poster contribution.
• XXVII general assembly - Joint discussion 12 : The first galaxies, Theoretical predictions and observational clues. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10-11 August 2009. Poster contribution.
• XXVII general assembly - Joint discussion 1 : Dark matter in early-type galaxies. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-5 August 2009. Oral contribution.
• 7th annual meeting of Chilean astronomical society. Santiago, Chile, 14-16 January 2009. Poster contribution.
• 6th annual meeting of Chilean astronomical society. Valparaíso, Chile, 7-9 November. Oral contribution.
• The 1st Subaru International Conference: Panoramic views of galaxy formation and evolution. Hayama, Japan, 11-16 December 2007. Poster contribution.
• 3rd chilean advanced school of astrophysics: Galaxy evolution from resolved stellar populations. Concepcion, Chile, 8-12 January 2007. Oral contribution.
• Interferometry in the epoch of Alma and VLTI. Santiago, Chile, 4-8 December 2006.
• 5th annual meeting of Chilean astronomical society. La Serena, Chile, 29 November 2006- 1 December 2006. Oral contribution.
• SCS summer school on galaxy clusters. Princeton, NJ, USA, 12-16 June 2006.
• XIII IAGUSP advanced school of Astrophysics. Foz do Igacu, Brasil, 6-12 April 2006.

Languages

• Spanish (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (beginner)

Software expertise

Programming languages : C, C++, IDL, Python

Application packages : Aladin, TOPCAT, TeXShop, TextWrangler, TEX, LATEX, vim, awk, sed

Operating systems : Mac OS X, UNIX, Linux, Windows 7