Thomas H. Puzia

Welcome to my site. I am a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Institute of Astrophysics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago de Chile; I am also the ‘liaison’ professor for the DAAD graduate student exchange program with the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

As an observational astronomer, my raison d'être is the formation and evolution of galaxies, their star cluster systems and stellar populations. I am also working on population synthesis models especially at high spectral resolution, chemical abundance analyses and enrichment models.

Together with the team members of my “Complex Stellar Systems” research group we are leading numerous large-scale survey projects, thanks to our privileged access to the observatories located in Chile as well as the computational infrastructure at our institute.