Biographic Notes
I am a FCT Fellow whose main research topic is the understanding of the most massive galaxies at all redshifts. These "monsters" were already formed at very large cosmic distances (> 12 Gyr!), being extremely compact disk-like galaxies and some of them "dead and dead" at this very early stage in the life of the Universe. My aim is to characterise how they transformed to the huge elliptical galaxies we see in the nearby Universe, while at the same time looking for new Physics in this metamorphosis.

Lastest publications at IAG. Clementini, L. Eyer, V. Ripepi, M. Marconi, T. Muraveva, A. Garofalo, L. Sarro, M. Palmer, X. Luri, R. Molinaro et al. (including: S. Antón), 2017,
Gaia Data Release 1
Testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 605, 29
>> AbstractLeeuwen, A. Vallenari, C. Jordi, L. Lindegren, U. Bastian, T. Prusti, J. de Bruijne, A. G. A. Brown, C. Babusiaux, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones et al. (including: S. Antón), 2017,
Gaia Data Release 1
Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 601
>> AbstractCalen B. Henderson, Radosaw Poleski, Matthew Penny, R. A. Street, D. Bennett, D. W. Hogg, B. Scott Gaudi, W. Zhu, T. Barclay, G. Barentsen et al. (including: A. Santerne), 2016,
Campaign 9 of the K2 Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey,
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128
>> AbstractN. Mehrtens, A. K. Romer, R. C. Nichol, C. A. Collins, P. J. Rooney, J. A. Mayers, A Bermeo-Hernandez, M. Bristow, D. Capozzi, L. Christodoulou et al. (including: P. T. P. Viana), 2016,
The XMM Cluster Survey: the halo occupation number of BOSS galaxies in X-ray clusters,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463, 1929 - 1943
>> AbstractC. Fabricius, U. Bastian, J. Portell, M. Davidson, N. Hambly, M. Clotet, M. Biermann, A. Mora, D. Busonero, A. Riva et al. (including: S. Antón), 2016,
Gaia Data Release 1. Pre-processing and source list creation,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 595, 21
>> AbstractT. Prusti, J. de Bruijne, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari, C. Babusiaux, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, U. Bastian, M. Biermann, D. W. Evans, L. Eyer et al. (including: S. Antón), 2016,
The Gaia mission,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 595, 36
>> Abstract