Graduate Theses on VVV:

30 PhD from 2012 to 2025
  1. Francesco Mauro, 2012, Univ. de Concepcion, Chile. “Massive Huge-Field PSF-fitting Photometry of Galactic Stellar Clusters with the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea ESO Survey”. Advisor: Doug Geisler
  2. Oscar González, 2013, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen, Germany. “Unfolding the Galactic Bulge”. Advisor: Marina Rejkuba
  3. Sandra Greiss, 2014, Univ. Hertfordshire, UK.“Exploring the final stages of stars in our Milky Way using large sky surveys”. Advisor: Danny Steeghs
  4. Eliade Lima, 2014, Univ. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. “Probing embedded star clusters in the HII complex NGC 6357 with VVV”. Advisor: Charles Bonato
  5. Leo Huckvale, 2014, Univ. Manchester, UK. “Difference Imaging Analysis for VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea”. Advisor: Eamonn Kerins
  6. Carlos Contreras Peña, 2015, Univ. Hertfordshire, UK. “Extreme Variables in Star Forming Regions”. Advisor: Phil Lucas
  7. Leigh C. Smith, 2015, Univ. Hertfordshire, UK. “Near-Infrared Proper Motion Surveys”. Advisor: Phil Lucas
  8. Juan Carlos Beamin, 2015, Univ. Catolica, Chile. “Characterization of high proper motion stars and brown dwarfs from the VVV survey and WISE mission”. Advisors: Dante Minniti, Valentin Ivanov, Manuela Zoccali
  9. Sergio Vásquez, 2017, Univ. Catolica, Chile. “Structure, Kinematics and Metallicity of the Galactic Bulge”. Advisors: Manuela Zoccali, Ivo Saviane
  10. Claudio Navarro-Molina, 2017, Univ. de Valparaiso, Chile.  “A variability study of the stellar population of the Galactic center”. Advisors: Jura Borissova, Marcio Catelan.
  11. Francisco Surot Madrid, 2018, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen, Germany. “Mapping the stellar age of the Milky Way Bulge with the VVV Survey”. Advisor: Elena Valenti
  12. Karina Rojas Olate, 2018, Univ. de Valparaiso, Chile. “Strong gravitational lensing as a probe of structure from small to large scale”. Advisor: Veronica Motta.
  13. Laura Baravalle, 2018, Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.  “Objetos extensos en el relevamiento VVV (Vista Variables in the Via Lactea)”. Advisor: Maria Victoria Alonso
  14. Caddy Cortes Santana, 2019, Univ. de Concepcion, Chile. “Search for Exoplanetary Transits in the Galactic Bulge”. Advisors: Dante Minniti, Sandro Villanova, Christian Moni Bidin
  15. Gergely Hajdu, 2019, Univ. Catolica, Chile. “Structure of the Obscured Galactic Disk with Pulsating Variables”. Advisors: Márcio Catelan, Eva K. Grebel 
  16. Juan Bautista Cabral, 2019, Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. “Analysis and design of astrophysical data mining processes on multiple epoch photometric catalogs”. Advisors: Pablo Granitto, Sebastian Gurovich
  17. Felipe Gran, 2020, “Unleashing the Proper Motions: Revolution in the Inner Galaxy”. Univ. Catolica, Chile. Advisor: Manuela Zoccali, Ivo Saviane
  18. Laura Donoso, 2020, Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.  “Galaxias con nucleos activos en grandes relevamientos”. Advisor: Maria Victoria Alonso
  19. María Gabriela Navarro, 2021, Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Italy and Univ. Andres Bello, Chile.  “Microlensing events and RR Lyrae in the Galactic center”. Advisors: Dante Minniti, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta
  20. Everton Botan, 2021, Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil “Identificação de estrelas variáveis no VVV e investigação de estruturas no bojo Galáctico”. Advisor: Roberto K. Saito 
  21. Fatemeh Nikzat, 2021, Univ. Catolica, Chile. “LPVs in the Inner Regions of the Milky Way”. Advisor: Marcio Catelan
  22. Javier H. Minniti, 2021, Univ. Catolica, Chile. “Using Classical Cepheids to Study the Far Side of the Milky Way Disk” Advisor: Manuela Zoccali
  23. Andrea Mejias, 2022, Univ. Andres Bello, Chile. “M Dwarfs in The VVVX Survey: A Census of Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Free Floating Planets in The Southern Galactic Plane”. Advisor: Dante Minniti
  24. Nicolás Medina Peña, 2022, Univ. de Valparaiso, Chile.  “Characterization of the variability of young stellar sources in star-forming regions across the Galaxy”. Advisor: Jura Borissova
  25. Elisa Rita Garro, 2023, Univ. Andres Bello, Chile.  “The globular cluster systems of the Milky Way and the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy”. Advisors: Dante Minniti, Jose Fernandez Trincado
  26. Alonso Luna, 2023, Univ. Andres Bello, Chile.  “Search for hypervelocity stars in the Galactic bulge”. Advisors: Dante Minniti, Marina Rejkuba, Tommaso Marchetti
  27. Casmir Oluabuchukwu Obasi, Oct 2023, Univ. Andres Bello, Chile. “Unveiling enigmatic low luminosity Galactic clusters, and the Circinus galaxy globular cluster system”. Advisors: Matias Gomez, Dante Minniti
  28. Daniela Galdeano, Oct 2023, Univ. Nacional de San Juan, Argentina.  “Develando galaxias y estructuras de galaxias detrás de la región central de la Vía Láctea”. Advisors: Georgina Coldwell, Sol Alonso
  29. Ingrid Vanessa Daza Perilla, Dec 2023, Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.  “Análisis automático de grandes volúmenes de datos astronómicos con mensajeros múltiples”. Advisor: Marcelo Lares
  30. Verena Wolff, 2024, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in cooperation with the Thüringer Landessternwarte in Tautenburg, Germany. “Radiative transfer modeling of outbursts of massive young stellar objects”. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Bringfried Stecklum, official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Artie Hatzes. Committee: Alexander Krivov, Katharina Schreyer, Markus Roth, Ralph Neuhäuser and Reinhard Meinel. Thesis: https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00061402
    Paper: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240510427W/abstract

MSc

1. Alejandra Rojas, 2013
“Búsqueda de contrapartes de fuentes de alta energía usando el survey infrarrojo VVV y espectroscopía óptica en CTIO”
Advisors: Dante Minniti, Nicola Masetti

2. Francisco Javier Peñaloza Sanchez,  2013
“Determinacion de abundancias químicas en los cúmulos globulares 2MASS GC02 y Mercer5”
Advisors: Jura Borissova and Radostin Kurtev

3. Felipe Gran, 2015
“Outer Bulge RR Lyrae stars in the VVV Survey”
Advisors: Dante Minniti, Roberto Saito, Manuela Zoccali

4. Vicente Villanueva, 2015
“Parallaxes with the VVV”
Advisor: Radostin Kurtev

5. Nicolás Medina, 2016
Advisor: Jura Borissova

6. Katherine Montenegro Armijo, 2018
Blue Horizontal Branch Stars using the VVV Survey
Advisor: Dante Minniti

7. Matías Chijani, 2019
“A New Galactic Bulge Globular Cluster from the VVV Survey”
Advisor: Dante Minniti

8. Roberto Kammers, 2019
Mapeando o disco da Via Láctea com estrelas gigantes vermelhas
Advisor: Roberto Kalbusch Saito
Comisión:
Roberto Kalbusch Saito, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
João Carlos Xavier, Instituto Federal Catarinense-Campus Rio do Sul
Antônio Nemer Kanaan Neto, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

9. Marcos da Maia Vicente Júnior, 2019
Buscas por trânsitos planetários ao redor de estrelas anãs M da região do bojo galáctico
Advisor: Prof. Roberto Kalbusch Saito
Comisión:
Roberto Kalbusch Saito, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Rubens Tadeu Delgado Duarte, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Daniel Ruschel Dutra, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

10. Ellen Carolinie Gomes e Silva, 2019
Buscas por anãs brancas na região do disco galáctico
Advisor: Roberto Kalbusch Saito
Co-Supervisor: Antônio Nemer Kanaan Neto
Comisión:
Roberto Kalbusch Saito, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Raymundo Baptista, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Fábio Rafael Herpich, Universidade de São Paulo