Ricardo López Valdivia

Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM
Postdoctoral fellow

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I was born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. I studied my M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica in Mexico.

From 2017 to 2021, I was a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin working with the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) team.

Since Octuber 2021, I am a postdoc at the Instituto de Astronomía of the UNAM working with the star formation group.

My research interests lie within the stellar physics field, some included topics are:

Currently, I am working on the characterization of young stellar objects through high-resolution infrared spectra obtained with APOGEE.