Public Outreach

Public talk about the wonders of the Universe as part of the International Festival of Social Innovation (FiiS 2017) in Santiago, Chile.
Video chat to students for "Superheroes del IEA", from ESO-Santiago (Chile) to Institutos Educacionales Asociados (IEA), Caracas (Venezela).
Video link from Paranal Observatory to XX Festival de Astronomia, Villa de Leyva, Boyaca (Colombia). A summary video of the event can be found here.
Made a ahort video for #Chilemiratucielo 2015
Astronomy & Cosmology courses aimed at school teachers for: Astromania in Santiago (Chile), and Escuelas de Invierno/Verano at Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
"Fiesta de la Ciencia" at Museo Interactivo Mirador, Santiago, Chile
Congreso Astronomico Escolar del Bio Bio, organizado por Embiggen, Explora, Coronel, Chile
Astronomy Public Lecture Series, University of Nottingham, UK

Community

Collaborator of the astronomy portal REDEM (Red Educativa Mundial / Word Educational Network). See my latest article for REDEM about galaxies here (in spanish)
Currently helping with the construction of a radio telescope at Observatorio Roan Jase, Cajon del Maipo, Chile

March 2018: Appearance in the German Travel documentary "Chile´s North" by Slashy Productions.
In August 2017 we published a paper in Nature reporting the previously unknown connection bewteen ram-pressure stripping and the central supermassive black holes of galaxies. The discovery caught the attention of many news sites, including: ESO news, Scientific American, Phys.org, Space.com, New Scientist, TrendinTech, University of Melbourne, and several other english-language sites, as well as Chilean, Mexican, Italian, and Spanish press releases.
An interview for Diario 2001's 44 Aniversario celebrating Venezuelans succeeding abroad.
In April 2017 we published a paper reporting the discovery of an early-type jellyfish galaxy (Sheen et al. 2017) that got the attention of several science news sites: Phys.org, iu4.com, sciencetimes.com, AAS Nova. The article was also reviewd in french, and in korean in this article and this video.
In January 2017 I talked to many news agencies, newspapers and TV channels in Chile about Jellyfish Galaxies and the GASP project. This was part of a Media Day organized by SOCHIAS. Here are some of the resulting articles (in spanish): Ultimas Noticias, La Tercera, Entorno Inteligente
An interview for the ESO journal The Messenger (issue 166, page 68, Dec. 2016)
An interview for a Venezuelan blog
An interview for the exhibition "Retratos de Independencia" by by John Perivolaris
An interview for a Venezuelan newspaper

Talking to Tele13 @ Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile (2017)

Talking to kids at Institutos Educacionales Asociados in Caracas, Venezuela via skype (2017)

Giving a tour inside the VLT to physics students from Antofagasta, Paranal Observatory, Chile (2017)