Email
fbuitrago@oal.ul.pt
Personal webpage
http://fbuitrago.github.io/

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 IAL. Zanisi, F. Shankar, H. Fu, A. Rodriguez-Puebla, V. Avila-Reese, A. Faisst, E. Daddi, L. Boco, A. Lapi, M. Giavalisco et al. (including: F. Buitrago), 2021,
The evolution of compact massive quiescent and star-forming galaxies derived from the Re–Rh and Mstar–Mh relations,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505, 4555 - 4570
>> AbstractE. Merlin, M. Castellano, P. Santini, G. Cipolletta, K. Boutsia, C. Schreiber, F. Buitrago, A. Fontana, D. Elbaz, J. S. Dunlop, 2021,
The ASTRODEEP-GS43 catalogue: New photometry and redshifts for the CANDELS GOODS-South field,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 649, 14
>> AbstractB. Garilli, R. J. McLure, L. Pentericci, P. Franzetti, A. Gargiulo, A. C Carnall, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, R. Amorin, M. Bolzonella et al. (including: F. Buitrago), 2021,
The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey. Final data release of 2087 spectra and spectroscopic measurements,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 647, 15
>> AbstractM. Cirasuolo, A. Fairley, P. Rees, O. A. Gonzalez, W. Taylor, R. Maiolino, J. Afonso, C. J. Evans, H. Flores, S. Lilly et al. (including: M. Abreu, S. Amarantidis, J. Brinchmann, F. Buitrago, A. Cabral, L. S. M. Cardoso, J. Coelho, J. M. Gomes, A. Humphrey, I. Matute, H. Messias, A. Oliveira, P. Papaderos, C. Pappalardo, P. Santos, I. Tereno), 2020,
MOONS: The New Multi-Object Spectrograph for the VLT,
The Messenger, 180, 10 - 17
>> AbstractI. P. Breda, P. Papaderos, J. M. Gomes, J. M. Vílchez, B. Ziegler, M. Hirschmann, L. S. M. Cardoso, P. Lagos, F. Buitrago, 2020,
Stellar age gradients and inside-out star formation quenching in galaxy bulges,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635, 7
>> AbstractS. N. Reis, F. Buitrago, P. Papaderos, I. Matute, J. Afonso, S. Amarantidis, I. P. Breda, J. M. Gomes, A. Humphrey, C. Lobo et al. (including: S. Lorenzoni, C. Pappalardo, A. Paulino-Afonso, T. C. Scott), 2020,
Structural analysis of massive galaxies using HST deep imaging at z < 0.5,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 634, 26
>> Abstract