Francisco Förster ASTROINFORMATICS LABORATORY
Investigadores Asociados

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)

University
Universidad de Chile
Fundamental Research
Ciencia de Datos
Applied Research
Astroinformatics Laboratory

Research Interests

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