Outreach

University of Maryland Undergraduate Mentoring Program (PHYS 299B)

2015 - Jesse Coldsmith and Samuel Harris. Research Project: "The Infrared Connection between Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies". PHYS 299B is a research course that involves freshman students in the physics department at University of Maryland as part of the new Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives in Physics program

2014 - Joey Gallagher and Myles Poole. Research Project: "Jets from Super-Massive Black Holes". PHYS 299B is a research course that involves freshman students in the physics department at University of Maryland as part of the new Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives in Physics program

Supervised Research

2014 - 2015

Undergraduate Thesis Advisor

Yaherlyn Diaz, Licentiate Physics. Thesis: "The Far-Infrared SED of Quasars". University Simón Bolívar. Caracas, Venezuela

2010 - 2011

Master thesis advisor

Mariela Martínez-Paredes, M. Sc. 2011. IVIC. Caracas, Venezuela. Thesis: "Constraining the AGN contribution in a sample of Seyfert galaxies: photoionization modeling"

Public Outreach

2015, 2016, 2018. Science fair judge at the Washington Latin Public Charter School, Washington DC.

Public outreach includes regular participation in radio show interviews in various Venezuelan radio stations: MAGICA 99.1, EXITOS 99.9 (Cesar Miguel Rondon, Anna Vaccarella). Press interview with Venezuelan newspaper "El Universal" and IVIC press, promoting the field of astronomy.