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I will be presenting my work during the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM) Science Meeting 2026Tenerife, 9-13 March 2026

Galaxy Wide Spectroscopy of NGC1365 with the Local Volume Mapper

6 days at La Silla Obervatory

La Silla Observing School from ESO
4-10th February 2026

Located on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert,
600 km north of Santiago at an altitude of 2400 metres,
this seemingly tiny village in the middle of a desert is in fact ESO’s first observatory.

24h at the VLT

Jan 29-30, 2026

Cerro Paranal

Look around, how amazing !

I am standing in the middle of the four main telescopes at the VLT in Cerro Paranal right on the edge of the great Atacama desert.

I am so greatfull to the ESO team in Santiago, they made this dream come true.

I was there for an exciting 24hours , full of majic and discovery.

First I wandered around the giant telescopes.

After sunset I got inside one of the giants to discorver all the mecanism and then when darkness came I will bent to the 4 lasers pointing toward the deep sky . Pointing to the past.

What a fantabulous jurney !

Climbing to the VLT, the majestic Pacific is never far away...

Almost there, Cerro Paranal 2635m northern Atacama desert...

Meet Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun the 4 main telescopes of the VLT...

Sunset over Antu " the Sun"...

When darkness comes lasers arrise, the big 4 become the VLT Interferometer...

Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun pointing their lasers towards the past into the deep sky...

SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting,

Heidelberg, Germany June 2 - 6, 2025

I attended the 2025 SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting held in Heidelberg, Germany
June 2 - 6, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA).

During the meeting I delivered a talk followed by a question/answer time.

The SDSS-V project continues its ambitious mission, encompassing 3 key projects — the Milky Way Mapper, the Local Volume Mapper, and the Black Hole Mapper. These projects are on track to observe 6 million stars in the Milky Way and satellite galaxies, 400,000 black holes and galaxy clusters, and 3,000 square degrees of the ionized interstellar medium from the Apache Point Observatory (APO) and the Las Campanas Observatory (LCO).