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Aura Obreja - Short Curriculum Vitae

Aura Obreja

Current position:

☆ From February 2017 to present
postdoc researcher at the USM in München.

Previous positions:

☆ From January 2016 to January 2017
postdoc researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
☆ From February 2015 to December 2015
postdoc researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany.

Education:

☆ From October 2010 to May 2015
PhD in Astrophysics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Thesis:"The Maker and the Mask: Cosmic Web and Dust Effects in the Formation and Emission of Galaxies"
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rosa Domínguez-Tenreiro & Dr. Christopher Brook
☆ From September 2008 to October 2010
MSc in Astrophysics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Thesis:"A hydrostatic photoionization model of the Orion Bar"
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ángeles Díaz and Dr. Yago Ascasibar
☆ From September 2003 to June 2008
BSc in Physics at Universitatea din Bucureşti, Romania Thesis:"Optical-potential analysis of alpha-particle scattering on 50≤A≤124 mass nuclei and incident energies <50 MeV"
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marilena Avrigeanu

Last invited and contributed talks:

☆ Invited talk
Title:"Galaxy simulations after the angular momentum catastrophe"
Focus Meeting on Galactic Angular Momentum at the IAU General Assembly, 20-22 August 2018, Vienna, Austria
☆ Contributed talk
Title:"A serendipitous analogue for Milky Way in the NIHAO sample"
CLUES Workshop 2018, 11 - 15 June 2018, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain

Selected publications:

☆ Obreja et al. 2018b, arXiv:1804.06635
Title:"NIHAO XVI: The properties and evolution of kinematically selected discs, bulges and stellar haloes"
☆ Dutton, Obreja & Macciò 2018, arXiv:1807.10518
Title:"NIHAO XVII: The diversity of dwarf galaxy kinematics and implications for the HI velocity function"
☆ Buck, Ness, Obreja et al. 2018, arXiv:1807.00829
Title:"Stars behind bars II: A cosmological formation scenario of the Milky Way's central stellar structure"
☆ Obreja et al. 2018a, MNRAS, 477, 4915
Title:"Introducing galactic structure finder: the multiple stellar kinematic structures of a simulated Milky Way mass galaxy"
☆ Zhu, van de Ven, Méndez-Abreu & Obreja 2018, MNRAS, 479, 945
Title:"Morphology and kinematics of orbital components in CALIFA galaxies across the Hubble sequence"
☆ Zhu et al. 2018, Nature Astronomy, 2, 233
Title:"The stellar orbit distribution in present-day galaxies inferred from the CALIFA survey"
☆ Buck, Macciò, Obreja et al. 2017, MNRAS, 468, 3628
Title:"NIHAO XIII: Clumpy discs or clumpy light in high-redshift galaxies?"
☆ Obreja et al. 2016, MNRAS, 459, 467
Title:"NIHAO VI. The hidden discs of simulated galaxies"
☆ Obreja et al. 2014, MNRAS, 442, 1794
Title:"The main sequence and the fundamental metallicity relation in MaGICC Galaxies: evolution and scatter"
☆ Domínguez-Tenreiro, Obreja et al. 2014, MNRAS, 439, 3868
Title:"GRASIL-3D: an Implemention of Dust Effects in the SEDs of Simulated Galaxies"

Contact me for more information

Universitäts-Sternwart München (USM)
Fakultät für Physik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Scheinerstraße 1
D-81679 München
Germany

Email: obreja at usm.lmu.de
Phone: +49 089-2180-5918