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Markus Rabus

Contact information:

Departamento de Matemática y Física Aplicadas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, Concepción, Chile

• Diplomado en Innovación en la enseñanza de la Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería, Humanidades y Matemáticas, LASPAU Harvard University
  • Date: Oct. 2021

• Doctor en Física/Astrofísica (Ph. D. Physics/Astrophysics), Universidad de La Laguna
  • Date: Oct. 2009
  • Doctoral Thesis: Estudio de planetas extrasolares por el método de tránsitos
  • Advisors: Dr. H. J. Deeg, Dr. J. A. Belmonte

• M. Sc, Applied Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Rutgers University
  • Date: Aug. 2005
  • Master’s Thesis: Rapid Thermal Processing of Silicon Wafers with Emissivity Patterns
  • Advisor: Prof. Nuggehalli M. Ravindra

• Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur, University of Kempten
  • Date: Feb. 2003

• Assistant Professor, Departamento de Matemática y Física Aplicadas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile (2021 to present)
• Associate Specialist / TESS Scientist, University of California Santa Barbra, Las Cumbres Observatory, CA, USA (2018 to 2021)
• Support Astronomer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile & Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany (2013 to 2018)
• 3-yr. FONDECYT fellowship, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2011 to 2014)
• PUC Postdoctoral fellow, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2009 to 2011)
• EARA Early Stage Training Secondment Stay, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France (2007 to 2008)
• Ph. D. student, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Canary Island, Spain (2005 to 2009)

• EARA Marie Curie – (EST) doctoral fellowship, European Association for Research in Astronomy (2005 to 2008)
• Fulbright Grant, Fulbright Commission, Germany (2004 to 2005)
• Provost Scholarship, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (2004 to 2005)

(As of 2022, Nov. 12 from NASA ADS)
• Number of refereed publications: 146
• Number of total citations: 7427 (with only ~7% self-citations)
• h-index: 39
• tori-index: 3.4

A discontinuity in the T_eff-radius relation of M-dwarfs
Rabus M., Lachaume R., Jordán A., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484, 2674 (2019), Citations: 33

HATS-11b AND HATS-12b: Two Transiting Hot Jupiters Orbiting Subsolar Metallicity Stars Selected for the K2 Campaign 7
Rabus M., Jordán A., Hartman J. D., et al.
The Astronomical Journal 152(4):88-101 (2016), Citations: 19

A cool starspot or a second transiting planet in the TrES-1 system?
Rabus M., Alonso R., Belmonte J. A., et al.
Astronomy and Astrophysics 494(1) (2009), Citations: 73

Transit timing analysis of the exoplanets TrES-1 and TrES-2
Rabus M., Deeg H. J., Alonso R., Belmonte J. A., Almenara J. M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics 508(2) (2009), Citations: 37

Towards reliable uncertainties in IR interferometry: the bootstrap for correlated statistical and systematic errors
Lachaume R., Rabus M., Jordán A., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484, 2656 (2019), Citations: 7

• Kickstarter grant KSP-6 "Assessing Crowded Field Photometry measured with the Rubin Pipeline", Co-PI (USD 15,000 assigned from a total of USD 30,000)
• Kickstarter grant KSP-7 "DECam DDF Undergrad Research", Co-PI (USD 8,830 assigned from a total of USD 29,820)
• Fondecyt Postdoctoral 2012 CLP 20,800,000

• Member of the Rubin Observatory User Committee
• Peer-reviews for „Astronomy & Astrophysics” und „Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society”
• NASA review panels chair and member
• TVS roadmap section editor and chapter author
• Rubin Observatory commissioning liaison for the TVSSC
• Organizing Committee Astronomy on Tap (AoT) Santa Barbara
• Speaker at LSST PCW 2019, Tucson
• Speaker at TVS-SMWLV Workshop 2019, Delaware
• Participant LSST TVS Survey Strategy Proposal Preparation Workshop 2018, Lehigh
• Seminars Organizing Committee
  Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain, April 2008 – Sept. 2009
• Local Organizing Committee
  ARENA Workshop: “Telescope and instrumentation robotization at Dome C”, March 26 – 29 2007, Puerto Santiago, Tenerife, Spain

Languages: German (native), English (fluent), Spanisch (fluent)

Computer skills:

Python (including Jupyter notebooks) - excellent

Rubin pipeline - advanced

Github workflow - advanced

Docker container - intermediate

SQL / NoSQL - intermediate

C++ - intermediate

Apache Spark - basic

Apache Airflow - basic