Dante Minniti

Dante Minniti is an astronomer born in Santa Fe, Argentina on December 1, 1962. He has devoted his career to the study of stellar populations, stellar evolution, globular clusters, galaxy formation, gravitational microlensing, exoplanets and astrobiology. He has been member of the SuperMACHO Team since 2001 and leader of the VVV Survey along with Phil Lucas since 2006 and of its extended version, the VVVX Survey. He has also fostered new scientists, supervising 14 PhD students, 11 Master Students and 17 Postdocs. He is Full Professor and Director of the Astronomy Institute at Andrés Bello National University (UNAB), Chile.

He has published more than 550 papers in peer reviewed journals, yielding an H-index of 85, with more than 27.000 citations.

His non refereed publications include 18 papers in 'The Messenger' (ESO) since 1995, such as 'Behind the Scenes of the Discovery of Two Extrasolar Planets: ESO Large Programme 666' dedicated to the hunt of sub-stellar objects (exoplanets and brown dwarfs), stretching the limits of what was possible with the VLT by 2006, started the planet hunting for many promising candidates from OGLE. 76 publications on the American Astronomical Society, (1992 to 2014), 43 Telegrams on The Astronomer's Telegram (2006–2021), 37 publications on the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 34 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union such as 'Stellar variability in the VVV survey: overview and first results' 2014, 'Massive infrared clusters in the Milky Way' 2017, 'The SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey' 2005 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 2004 , Issue IAUS225 , July 2004, pp. 357 – 362.

He also has written books for the general public such as 'Mundos Lejanos' (Ediciones B Chile, 2007 ISBN 9563040392, 9789563040395), 'Vistas de la Galaxia' along with Joyce Pullen and Ignacio Toledo   and 'Nuevos Mundos' along with Juan José Clariá (ISBN 9789876022941), in addition to editing a number of specialised books. He is active in outreach activities, such as public talks and press interviews. Provided by Wikipedia