
Francisco Förster
Astroinformatics Laboratory
Investigador Asociado
PhD in Astronomy, University of Oxford, UK (2009)
B.Sc. Astronomy, Universidad de Chile (2004)
B.Sc. Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Chile (2004)
Astrophysics of transient phenomena
Image processing / pattern recognition
Data analysis
Biography
Director of MAS - Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (2024)
Founding director of ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events)
Fondecyt Initiation into research Fellow 2013-
Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2013
PPARC-STFC scholarship 2004-2009