My name is Sergio Scarano Jr, professor at Universidade Federal de
Sergipe/Brazil and researcher in Extragalactic
Astronomy. I worked as Resident Astronomer at SOAR
Telescope during three years and I completed my Post-Doc at University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil,
where I graduated in Physics and then I got the Master's and the
Ph.D. in Astrophysics. At the moment I do research on Galactic and Extragalactic
Astronomy, particularly on bars and arms of spiral galaxies. My research
interests are the effects of the spiral structure on the chemical
abundance, the velocity fields and rotation curves of spiral galaxies. Besides, I study the
connection between the chemical evolution of spiral galaxies and the
star formation rate induced by the spiral arms. As a consequence of
these works I investigate questions related to fundamental parameters of
galactic disks as their spatial orientation and warps. Observational and theoretical approaches are used to conduct these
studies. I have experience in Optic and Radio observations
as well I have some skills on writting codes for simulations
and data reduction.
I am PI of several proposes approved for observations at SOAR,
GEMINI,
OPD and
GMRT telescopes, with projects that
include photometry, spectroscopy and aperture synthesis of spiral
galaxies. I also investigate the chemical evolution in compact groups of
galaxies. Earlier I was involved with Instrumentation in Physics at the Particle and Intrumentation Laboratory (LIP-USP), where I worked with mass spectroscopy
of biomolecules using PDMS
and MALDI techniques. Concerning the Instrumentation for Astronomy
I collaborated in the first mechanical projects
of SIFS
spectrograph, which is being commissioned at SOAR telescope. In parallel
I worked in SIFS data reduction software. After this I got
involved with the software group of the Brazilian Tunable Filter Imager (BTFI),
which is also under commissioning at SOAR.