The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/38734 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation
Author: López Gonzaga, Noel
Title: The structure of the dusty cores of active galactic nuclei Issue Date: 2016-04-12
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Curriculum vitæ
“No estudio por saber más, sino por ignorar menos.”
“I don’t study to know more, but to ignore less.”
— Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
I was born on July 11, 1986 in Nezahualcoyotl, Estado de México, in México. In 1998, we moved to Wageningen, The Netherlands where I attended middle school and part of high school. After almost five years in The Netherlands, we returned to México where I completed high school.
In 2009, I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM). After graduation, I began my Master’s degree in Astronomy at UNAM with Dr. William H. Lee Alardin. During my time there, I did research in theoretical Astrophysics, specifically on the study of the dynamics of accretion disc around compact objects. I completed my Master’s thesis, “Dynamics of accretion disks: Effects of self-gravity and viscosity” in 2011 and graduated with honors.
In November 2011, I moved to The Netherlands and began my doctoral research at Leiden Observatory, working with Prof. dr. Walter Jaffe. My project gave me the opportunity to work with the Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chili, where I participated in the acquisition of observations using the infrared inter- ferometric instrument MIDI. My thesis work has focused on analyzing and modeling infrared interferometric data of Active galactic nuclei. During my PhD, I presented my work at international conferences in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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List of Publications
Published
Revealing the large nuclear dust structures in NGC 1068 with MIDI/VLTI López-Gonzaga, N., Jaffe, W., Burtscher, L., Tristram, K. R. W., & Meisen- heimer, K. 2014, A&A, 565, A71
Mid-infrared interferometry of Seyfert Galaxies: Challenging the Standard Model
López-Gonzaga, N.& Jaffe, W. 2015, A&A, in press
Mid-infrared interferometry of 23 AGN tori: On the significance of polar- elongated emission
López-Gonzaga, N., Burtscher, L., Tristram, K. R. W., Meisenheimer, K.
& Schartmann, M. 2016, A&A, in press
Submitted
The dormant mid-infrared environment of the Seyfert Type II NGC1068 López-Gonzaga, N., Bauer, F., Tristram, K. R. W., Asmus, D., Burtscher, L., Marinucci, A., Matt, G., Stern, D. & Harrison, F. A. 2016, submitted to A&A
In preparation
Properties of the dusty clouds of AGNs
López-Gonzaga, N., Jaffe, W. & Schartmann, M., in prep
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Acknowledgements
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
It has been an honor for me to had the opportunity to work at Leiden Observatory for the last four and a half years. I feel very lucky to have come to The Netherlands, but more lucky to have met great persons. This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance, help and encouragement of many people and therefore I would like to write a few words to express my gratitude to them.
I would like to thank all my co-authors and close collaborators who have provided me with helpful comments and brought new ideas to improve my thesis. Klaus, Konrad and Marc, it was always a pleasure to work with you and you substantially contributed to the work presented here. Leonard, your support, help, and ideas were fundamental to this thesis and its completion. I am very thankful for all the talks that we had and I appreciate all the times that you took parts of your weekends to discuss and read my drafts. I learned a lot working along your side and I hope we have more collaborations in the future. To all the members of the MIDI Science group thanks a lot for the feedback and interesting questions. Xander, your suggestions, guidance and motivation were of great help to finish the thesis. Thank you for keeping me in the right path.
I would like to acknowledgement CONACyT for all the support they have pro- vided me during my master and PhD, without them my career in science would not have been possible.
Susana, I would like to thank you for supporting and encouraging me during our stay in The Netherlands. Without your constant love and support I would have not been able to succeed in completing this thesis. Your personality, courage and commitment are admirable. You have been my source of inspiration during all these years.
My parents are the greatest example that I have in my life. I have always looked up to their accomplishments and aimed to match them. Thank you for introducing me to the world of science and for helping me to reach all my goals. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to them. Sacni and Aaron, thank you for always being ready to
sister and brother. Thank you to my grandparents for all their love and for teaching me the value of hard work. To my in-laws, who gave me a warm welcome since I met them. I know it was not easy for them to see Susana leave and so I am grateful for their motivation and thoughts.
A big thanks to all the people at the Leiden Observatory for making it a unique and multicultural professional environment. The observatory in Leiden will always have a special significance for me. Tjarda and Carmen, you were the first two persons that I met at the observatory and our friendship has grown much since then. I am very happy to have shared many important moments together and I am sure we will share even more in the future. It is an honor for me to have you as my paranymphs.
Lucie, thank you for always being such a nice person with us and for motivating us to do new things. I will always remember the excellent dinners that you organized.
Guilherme, it was always great to have a chat with you and I learned a lot from you during your stay in Leiden. I am very happy we met you. Thank you to my office mates over the years, Julia, Willem, Mayuresh, Alex, Dan. It was great to talk to you and I wish you all the best in your future.
My stay in The Netherlands would not have been as great as it was without all the amazing persons that I met. Davide, Simona, Jose, Martha, Liliana, Ainil, Yuri, Emilio, Silvia, Paula, Edwin, Tjibaria, Gráinne, Santiago, Alan, Heather, Marco, Matia, Irene, Alex, Thomas, Carl, Tiffany, and Kateryna, I am very thankful for all the great chats and reunions that we had. Over the past years, I had the pleasure of getting to know some wonderful people, both in and out of the university. Thanks to my non-astronomer friends Rosa, Marlen, Jeroen, Ysabel, Jessica, Alexandra, Fred, Angela, Sven, Marlene, Wouter for all the wonderful times that we spend together.
A special thanks to Alexa Jaffe-Klusman for opening the doors of her house to us. We will always remember the first Dutch New year that we spend together.
We enjoyed all the times that we had dinner together and we are very thankful for providing us with one very important Mexican tool, el molcajete. Virginia, you have been a wonderful person with us and I am thankful for all your support. Thank you for reading and correcting my thesis. Karen and Luis, I am very thankful to you for supporting me during my first months in The Netherlands.
My gratitude to all my advisors, friends and teachers from the past, who continue to have a strong impact on me.
