Name: Maria-Kalliopi Koutoulaki

Title: PhD student

E-mail: mariakout@cp.dias.ie

Phone: +353-1-4406656 Extn.315

Address: Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, 31 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2, Ireland

Research interests: Star formation, Near Infrared interferometry, Protoplanetary discs

Biographical Sketch: Maria Koutoulaki studied physics at the Physics Department, University of Crete (Crete, Greece). She is a PhD student at DIAS since September 2015 studying the inner regions of low mass Young Stellar Objects using near infrared interferometric techniques.

Name: Dr. Rebeca Garcia Lopez

Title: Researcher

E-Mail: rgarcia@cp.dias.ie

Phone: +353 1 4406656 extn 352

Address: 31 Fitzwilliam Place, D02-XF86

Related Links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeca_Garcia_Lopez

Research Interests:
Star formation, circumstellar disks, protostellar jets, infrared interferometry.

Biographical Sketch:
Rebeca Garcia Lopez studied Physics at La Laguna University (Canary Islands, Spain). She completed her PhD at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in 2009, where she studied the properties of protostellar jets to find clues about their origins. This triggered her interest in high spatial resolution studies of young stellar objects. The quest to observe the jet central engine brought her to work at the interferometric group of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn (MPIfR), where she became an expert in interferometric observations of young stars. From 2014, she is working at the Dublin Institute for Advance studies where she is involved in the scientific exploitation of GRAVITY, the second generation interferometric instrument for the VLT-interferometer. Recently, she has been awarded with a Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual Fellowship to investigate the properties of the innermost regions of protoplanetary discs.

Selected Publications:
Garcia Lopez, Rebeca; Kurosawa, Ryuichi; Caratti o Garatti, Alessio, et al. “Investigating the origin and spectroscopic variability of the near-infrared H I lines in the Herbig star VV Ser”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 456, p. 156-170, 2016.
(ads link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.456..156G)

Caratti o Garatti, A.; Garcia Lopez, R.; Ray, T. P.; Eislöffel, J.; Stecklum, B.; Scholz, A.; Kraus, S.; Weigelt, G.; Kreplin, A.; Shenavrin, V. “Investigating 2MASS J06593158-0405277: AN FUor Burst in a Triple System?” The Astrophysical journal Letters, Volume 806, id. L4, 5pp, 2015. (ads link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ…806L…4C)

Garcia Lopez, R.; Tambovtseva, L. V.; Schertl, D.; Grinin, V. P.; Hofmann, K.-H.; Weigelt, G.; Caratti o Garatti, A. “Probing the accretion-ejection connection with VLTI/AMBER. High spectral resolution observations of the Herbig Ae star HD 163296”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volumne 576, id. A84, 13pp, 2015. (ads link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A…576A..84G)

Antoniucci, S.; García López, R.; Nisini, B.; Caratti o Garatti, A.; Giannini, T.; Lorenzetti, D “POISSON project. III. Investigating the evolution of the mass accretion rate”, Volume 572, id. A62, 20pp, 2014. (ads link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A…572A..62A)

Garcia Lopez, R.; Caratti o Garatti, A.; Weigelt, G.; Nisini, B.; Antoniucci, S. “Spatially resolved H2 emission from a very low-mass star”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 552, id. L2, 6pp, 2013. (ads link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A…552L…2G )

Name: Dr. Colm Coughlan

Title: Post-doctoral research fellow

E-Mail: coughlan@cp.dias.ie

Phone: +353-1-4406656 x358

Address:Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, 31 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2, Ireland

Related Links www.colmcoughlan.com, https://ie.linkedin.com/in/colmpcoughlan

Research Interests: radio astronomy, imaging and calibration algorithms, high performance computing, big data, long baseline interferometry, YSO jets, AGN jets and polarimetry

Biographical Sketch:

Colm is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Star Formation group at DIAS with a particular interest in high performance scientific computing. He is currently the PI of the “New discoveries at low frequencies” project which uses the high performance computing facilities at the Irish Centre for High End Computing to search for signals from Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and exoplanets using the LOFAR radio interferometer. Colm is part of the team that recently obtained the first detection of a YSO jet at LOFAR frequencies. He has also developed radio imaging algorithms for very long baseline radio polarimetry. His research interests include high performance scientific computing, big data in astrophysics, calibration and imaging algorithms for radio astronomy, relativistic jets from Active Galactic Nuclei and jets from YSOs.

Selected Publications:

GMRT detections of low-mass young stars at 323 and 608 MHz – Ainsworth, Rachael E.; Scaife, Anna M. M.; Green, David A.; Coughlan, Colm P.; Ray, Tom P. (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.459.1248A)

Connecting magnetic towers with Faraday rotation gradients in active galactic nuclei jets – Mahmud, M.; Coughlan, C. P.; Murphy, E.; Gabuzda, D. C.; Hallahan, D. R. (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.431..695M)