About me

Hello! Welcome to my personal webpage. I am Miguel Vioque and since March 2026 I have been working as Staff Astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany.

Born in Sevilla (Spain), I completed my bachelor’s degree in Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and at the University of Calgary (Canada). I obtained my master’s degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In October 2020, I received my PhD from the University of Leeds (UK), where I studied and characterized the intermediate- to high-mass star formation regime using data from the Gaia mission, spectroscopy, and machine learning techniques. During my PhD, I had the privilege of completing an 18-month secondment at the European Space Agency (ESAC) in Madrid and the adjacent Centre for Astrobiology.

After my PhD, I moved to Chile for three years with an ALMA Fellowship at the Joint ALMA Observatory, which allowed me to complete over 200 observing shifts at the ALMA telescope. In January 2024, I moved to Germany with an ESO Fellowship. Currently, at ESO, I am part of the User Support Department, and I dedicate 50% of my time to providing scientific support for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) CRIRES, X-Shooter, MUSE, and KMOS instruments, as well as contributing to the testing and implementation of large language models (LLMs) for ESO User Support. I also record videos for ESO's tutorial YouTube channel.

My research interests focus on star and planet formation. I study the accretion mechanisms of forming stars and the evolution of their dust and gas disks. This is key to understanding how planets form in these disks. I am also interested in the clustering and environmental properties of forming stars. My technical expertise is varied, covering different techniques and a broad wavelength range. In particular, I have worked with Gaia astrometry, optical and infrared spectroscopy and photometry, mm-wavelength interferometry, and high-contrast imaging. I find machine learning techniques very useful in my research, which I often apply to large-scale surveys.

Science keywords: star formation, Herbig Ae/Be stars, T Tauri stars, young stellar objects, pre-main sequence accretion, clusters and associations, Galactic structure, protoplanetary and debris disks, planet formation, variable stars, emission-line stars, Be stars.

Technical keywords: UV to mid-IR spectroscopy and photometry, astrometry, Gaia, ALMA, VLT, machine learning, statistics, big data, large-scale surveys, mm/sub-mm interferometry, high-contrast imaging.

You can find my list of publications here.

Curriculum Vitae

You can download my complete CV here.

You can download my PhD thesis here.

Recent highlights

In Zallio, Vioque, et al. (accepted for publication in A&A Letters), we benchmark pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using stellar masses dynamically estimated by fitting a parametric model to ALMA observations of the 12CO emitted by the protoplanetary disks in the Upper Scorpius star forming region. Models with a moderate-to-low fraction of cold stellar spots most accurately reproduce the dynamical stellar masses. When stellar dynamical mass priors are considered in HR diagram fitting, the median age of a single source can change up to 25%. These results provide strong empirical constraints for testing and developing evolutionary models of pre-main sequence stars.
In Vioque et al. (2026, Astronomy & Astrophysics), we present a Gaia astrometric analysis aimed at detecting stellar and sub-stellar companions within the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks (commonly referred to as 'transition disks'). Cyan shaded areas indicate companion location. We compare the companion detection rates in these systems with those in other populations to investigate the origin of large inner dust cavities.
In Ribas, Vioque, et al. (2025, Nature Astronomy), we combined Gaia astrometry with multi-band ALMA observations to detect a gas-giant planet close to the forming young star MP Mus.
In Vioque et al. (2025, The Astrophysical Journal), part of the 12-paper AGE-PRO collaboration release, we analysed ALMA dust-continuum observations of 30 protoplanetary disks across three star-forming regions using visibility fitting. We determined disk geometries and dust-disk radii, identifying substructures in half of the sample. Our results show an increased prevalence of pressure dust traps and large inner cavities (transition disks) at later evolutionary stages. Notably, 80% of resolved Class I disks in Ophiuchus exhibit dust substructures, demonstrating their early emergence. Additionally, we detected a spiral in IRS 63, indicative of gravitational instability in this massive disk.
In Delfini, Vioque, et al. (2025, Astronomy & Astrophysics), we performed the first all-sky homogeneous analysis of young stellar object (YSO) accretion within 500 pc using Gaia DR3 XP spectra, identifying many previously undetected low-accretion sources. We derived an accretion timescale of 2.7±0.4 Myr, finding that the fraction of accreting YSOs declines from 70% at 2 Myr to 2.8% at 10 Myr.

Publications

Please find the link to my publication record in ADS here.

Refereed publications

  1. Chevalier E., Zhang K., Vioque M., Kurtovic N. T., Pinilla P., Miley J. M., Deng D., Carpenter J. M., Agurto-Gangas C., Sierra A., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). Formaldehyde (H2CO) emission and its links to disk properties, accepted for publication in ApJ
  2. Yao J., Zhang K., Banzatti A., Bajaj N. S., Pascucci I., Miley J., Blake G. A., Salyk C., Carpenter J. M., Pinilla P., Cieza L. A., Vioque M., Molecular Similarity and Water Diversity in Coeval Binary Disks: JWST/MIRI Observations of Sz 65 and Sz 66, accepted for publication in ApJ
  3. Wilner D. J., Lovell J. B., Andrews S. M., Vioque M., Long F., Matrà L., A λ = 1.3 millimeter Survey for Disks around Herbig Be Stars, accepted for publication in ApJ
  4. Colmenares M. J., Bergin E. A., Zhang K., Blake G. A., Pontoppidan K. M., Anderson A. R., Carr J., Dahl E., Najita J., Williams J., Salyk C., Kaeufer T., Narang M., Pascucci I., Tabone B., Cieza L., Vioque M., Houge A., Krijt S., Arabhavi A., Rosotti G., Carpenter J., Long F., Pinilla P., Kanwar J., Raul E., Mauco K., Miley J., Waggoner A., JWST/MIRI Hydrocarbon and Water Absorption in the Wind of a Young Disk: Signatures of Pebble Drift and Carbon Grain Sublimation, 2026, ApJ, 1002, 176
  5. Ricciardi G., Zagaria F., Miotello A., Manara C. F., Rosotti G., Zallio L., Andrews S., Booth R., Carpenter J., Cleeves I., Facchini S., Guzmán V. V., Toci C., Vioque M., Wilner D., Williams J., Compact CO emission and no evidence of radial drift. ALMA observations of the faintest planet-forming disks in Lupus, accepted for publication in A&A
  6. Mendigutía I., Campbell-White J., Montesinos B., Maldonado J., Fullana-García L., Mirouh G. M., Meeus G., Vioque M., Sicilia-Aguilar A., Zapatero-Osorio M. R., Villaver E., Kahar R., Lithium and evolution of intermediate-mass T Tauri and Herbig stars. Rotation, accretion and planets, accepted for publication in A&A
  7. Zallio L., Vioque M., Andrews S. M., Empey A., Rosotti G. P., Miotello A., Manara C. F., Carpenter J. M., Deng D., Kurtovic N. T., Law C. J., Longarini C., Paneque-Carreño T., Teague R., Villenave M., Yen H-W, Zagaria F., Benchmarking pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using disk-based dynamical stellar masses, 2026, A&A, 708, L1
  8. Garufi A., Ginski C., Benisty M., Vioque M., Winter A., Huang J., Manara C. F., Dominik C., Planet-forming disks and their environment across regions and time from the full NIR census, accepted for publication in A&A
  9. Ping J., Anania R., Pinilla P., Vioque M., Survival of protoplanetary disks in Upper Scorpius from population synthesis models with external photoevaporation, 2026, A&A, 709, A6
  10. Luo L., Pinilla P., Pulgarés C., Pérez L. M., Vioque M., Kurtovic N. T., Sierra A., Agurto-Gangas C., Anania R., Carpenter J., Cieza L. A., Deng D., Miley J., Pascucci I., Rosotti G. P., Tabone B., Zhang K., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Constraints on disk turbulence, fragmentation velocity, and inner pebble fluxes, accepted for publication in MNRAS
  11. Ji T., Serna J., Herczeg G. J., Takasao S., Walter F. M., Chen Y., Armeni A., Johnstone D., Eislöffel J., Fang M., Matt S. P., Siwak M., Venuti L., Vioque M., Dai L., The mass distribution of clumpy accretion onto the nearby young star TW Hya, 2026, ApJ, 998, 300
  12. Mallaney P., Banzatti A., Salyk C., Pascucci I., Pinilla P., Najita J., Pontoppidan K. M., Krijt S., Blake G. A., Tabone B., Kaeufer T., Zhang K., Long F., Huang J., Rosotti G. P., Öberg K. I., Colmenares M. J., Lay A., Cieza L. A., Cleeves I. L., Williams J., Xie C., Vioque M., Narang M., Ballering N. P., Kim M., JDISCS Collaboration, Protoplanetary disk cavities with JWST-MIRI: a dichotomy in molecular emission, 2026, ApJ, 998, 255
  13. Vioque M., Booth R. A., Ragusa E., Ribas Á., Kurtovic N. T., Rosotti G. P., Penoyre Z., Facchini S., Garufi A., Manara C. F., Huélamo N., Winter A., Pérez S., Benisty M., Mendigutía I., Cuello N., Penzlin A. B. T., Castro-Ginard A., Teague R., Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks, 2026, A&A, 705, A238
  14. Zallio L., Rosotti G. P., Vioque M., Miotello A., Andrews S. M., Manara C. F., Carpenter J. M., Empey A., Kurtovic N. T., Law C. J., Longarini C., Paneque-Carreño T., Teague R., Villenave M., Yen H-W, Zagaria F., The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region, 2026, A&A, 705, A49
  15. Miley J. M., Kennedy G. M., Ribas Á., Macias E., Carpenter J., Vioque M., Luhman K., Haworth T., Weber P., Perez S., Zurlo A., Resolving the large exoKuiper belt of the HD 126062 debris disc and extended gas emission in its vicinity, 2025, A&A, 703, A235
  16. Alaguero A., Ménard F., Cuello N., Ribas Á., Viscardi E., Macías E., Vioque M., Miley J., Probing dust and grain growth in the optically thick circumbinary ring of V892 Tau, 2025, A&A, 703, A210
  17. Pinilla P., Sierra A., Kurtovic N. T., Anania R., Andrews S., Carpenter J., Guerra-Alvarado O., Long F., Marino S., Vioque M., Zhang K., Observational Constraints on Evolution of Dust Disc Properties in Upper Scorpius, 2025, MNRAS, 543, 2723
  18. Krijt S., Banzatti A., Zhang K., Pinilla P., Kaeufer T., Bergin E. A., Salyk C., Pontoppidan K., Blake G. A., Long F., Huang J., José Colmenares M., Williams J., Houge A., Narang M., Vioque M., Lambrechts M., Cleeves L. I., Öberg K., JDISCS collaboration, Cosmic cascades: How disk substructure regulates the flow of water to inner planetary systems, 2025, ApJL, 990, L72
  19. Ribas Á., Vioque M., Zagaria F., Longarini C., Macías E., Clarke C. J., Pérez S., Carpenter J., Cuello N., de Gregorio-Monsalvo I., A young gas giant and hidden substructures in a protoplanetary disk, 2025, Nature Astronomy, 9, 1176
  20. Miley J., Pérez L. M., Agurto-Gangas C., Sierra A., Trapman L., Vioque M., Kurtovic N. T., Pinilla P., Pascucci I., Zhang K., Anania R., Carpenter J., Cieza L. A., Deng D., González-Ruilova C., Rosotti G. P., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., TorresVillanueva E., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO) XII: Extreme mm variability in an Upper Scorpius Class II disc, 2025, ApJ, 989, 11
  21. Trapman L., Vioque M., Kurtovic N. T., Zhang K., Rosotti G. P., Pinilla P., Carpenter J., Cieza L. A., Pascucci I., Anania R., Agurto-Gangas C., Deng D., Miley J., Pérez L. M., Sierra A., Tabone B., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., González-Ruilova C., TorresVillanueva E., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XI. Beam-corrected gas disk sizes from fitting 12CO moment zero maps, 2025, ApJ, 989, 10
  22. Vioque M., Kurtovic N. T., Trapman L., Sierra A., Pérez L. M., Zhang K., Curone P., Rosotti G. P., Carpenter J., Tabone B., Pinilla P., Deng D., Pascucci I., Miley J., Agurto-Gangas C., Cieza L. A., Anania R., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., González-Ruilova C., TorresVillanueva E., Kuznetsova A., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): X. Dust substructures, disk geometries, and dust-disk radii, 2025, ApJ, 989, 9
  23. Anania R., Rosotti, G. P., Gárate M., Pinilla P., Vioque M., Trapman L., Carpenter J., Zhang K., Pascucci I., Cieza L. A., Sierra A., Kurtovic N. T., Miley J., Pérez L. M., Tabone B., Hogerheijde M. R., Deng D., Agurto-Gangas C., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., González-Ruilova C., TorresVillanueva E., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VIII. The impact of external photoevaporation on disk masses and radii in Upper Sco, 2025, ApJ, 989, 8
  24. Tabone B. Rosotti G. P., Trapman L., Pinilla P., Pascucci I., Somigliana A., Alexander R., Vioque M., Anania R., Kuznetsova A., Zhang K., Pérez L. M., Cieza L. A., Carpenter J., Deng D., Agurto-Gangas C., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., Sierra A., Kurtovic N. T., Miley J., González-Ruilova C., TorresVillanueva E., Hogerheijde M. R., Schwarz K., Toci C., Testi L., Lodato G., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VII. Testing accretion mechanisms from disk population synthesis, 2025, ApJ, 989, 7
  25. Kurtovic N. T., Gárate M., Pinilla P., Zhang K., Rosotti G. P., Anania R., Pascucci I., Tabone B., Trapman L., Carpenter J., Cieza L. A., Deng D., Vioque M., Pérez L. M., Agurto-Gangas C., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., Sierra A., Miley J., González-Ruilova C., Torres-Villanueva E., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VI. Comparison of Dust Evolution Models to AGE-PRO Observations, 2025, ApJ, 989, 6
  26. Trapman L., Zhang K., Rosotti G. P., Pinilla P., Tabone B., Pascucci I., Agurto-Gangas C., Anania R., Carpenter J., Cieza L. A., Deng D., González-Ruilova C., Hogerheijde M. R., Kurtovic N. T., Kuznetsova A., Miley J., Pérez L. M., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., Schwarz K., Sierra A., TorresVillanueva E., Vioque M., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): V. Protoplanetary gas disk masses, 2025, ApJ, 989, 5
  27. Agurto-Gangas C., Pérez L. M., Sierra A., Miley J., Zhang K., Pascucci I., Pinilla P., Deng D., Carpenter J., Trapman L., Vioque M., Rosotti G. P., Kurtovic N. T., Cieza L. A., Schwarz K., Hogerheijde M. R., Anania R., Tabone B., TorresVillanueva E., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., González-Ruilova C., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): IV. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Upper Scorpius Star-forming Region, 2025, ApJ, 989, 4
  28. Deng D., Vioque M., Pascucci I., Pérez L. M., Zhang K., Kurtovic N. T., Trapman L., TorresVillanueva E., Agurto-Gangas C., Carpenter J., Pinilla P., Gorti U., Tabone B., Sierra A., Rosotti G. P., Cieza L. A., Anania R., González-Ruilova C., Hogerheijde M. R., Miley J., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., Ruaud M., Schwarz K., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): III. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Lupus Star-forming Region, 2025, ApJ, 989, 3
  29. Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., González-Ruilova C., Cieza L. A., Zhang K., Trapman L., Pinilla P., Pascucci I., Pérez L. M., Deng D., Agurto-Gangas C., Carpenter J., Tabone B., Rosotti G. P., Sierra A., Anania R., Miley J., Schwarz K., Vioque M., Kurtovic N. T., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): II. Gas and Dust in the Ophiuchus Star-forming Region, 2025, ApJ, 989, 2
  30. Zhang K., Pérez L. M., Pascucci I., Pinilla P., Cieza L. A., Carpenter J., Trapman L., Deng D., Agurto-Gangas C., Sierra A., Kurtovic N. T., Ruíz-Rodriguez D. A., Vioque M., Miley J., Tabone B., González-Ruilova C., Anania R., Rosotti G. P., TorresVillanueva E., Hogerheijde M. R., Schwarz K., Kuznetsova A., The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): I. Program Overview and Summary of First Results, 2025, ApJ, 989, 1
  31. Arulanantham N., Salyk C., Pontoppidan K., Banzatti A., Zhang K., Öberg K., Long F., Carr J., Najita J., Pascucci I., Colmenares M. J., Xie C., Huang J., Green J., Andrews S. M., Blake G. A., Bergin E. A., Pinilla P., Vioque M., Dahl E., Raul E., Krijt S., JDISCS Collaboration, The JDISC Survey: Linking the physics and chemistry of inner & outer protoplanetary disk zones, 2025, AJ, 170, 67
  32. Delfini L., Vioque M., Ribas Á., Hodgkin S., Star formation and accretion rates within 500 pc as traced by Gaia DR3 XP spectra, 2025, A&A, 699, A145
  33. Ragusa E., Lodato G., Cuello N., Vioque M., Manara C. F., Toci C., The likelihood of not detecting cavity-carving companions in transition discs – A statistical approach, 2025, A&A, 698, A102
  34. Radley I. C., Oudmaijer R. D., Vioque M., Dodd J. M., A Photometric Comparison of B and Be stars using Gaia DR3, 2025, MNRAS, 539, 1964
  35. Anania R., Winter A., Rosotti G., Vioque M., Zari E., Pantaleoni González M., Testi L., A novel method to estimate the FUV flux and a catalogue for star-hosting discs in nearby star-forming regions, 2025, A&A, 695, A74
  36. Stapper L. M., Hogerheijde M. R., van Dishoeck E. F., Vioque M., Williams J. P., Ginski C., Intermediate mass T Tauri disk masses and a comparison to their Herbig disk descendants, 2025, A&A, 693, A286
  37. Long F., Pascucci I., Houge A., Banzatti A., Pontoppidan K. M., Najita J., Krijt S., Xie C., Williams J., Herczeg G. J., Andrews S. M., Bergin E., Blake G. A., Colmenares M. J., Harsono D., Muñoz-Romero C. E., Li R., Lu C. X., Pinilla P., Wilner D. J., Vioque M., Zhang K., JDISCS collaboration, The First JWST View of a 40-Myr-old Protoplanetary Disk: the late-stage carbon-rich phase, 2025, ApJL, 978, L30
  38. Sierra A., Pérez L. M., Agurto-Gangas C., Miley J., Zhang K., Pinilla P., Pascucci I., Trapman L., Kurtovic N., Vioque M., Deng D., Anania R., Carpenter J., Cieza L. A., González-Ruilova C., Hogerheijde M., Kuznetsova A., Rosotti G. P., Ruiz-Rodriguez D. A., Schwarz K., Tabone B., TorresVillanueva E. E., Hints of planet formation signatures in a large-cavity disk studied in the AGE-PRO ALMA Large Program, 2024, ApJ, 974, 102
  39. Messias H., Guerrero A., Nagar N., Regueiro J., Impellizzeri V., Orellana G., Vioque M., HI content at cosmic noon - a millimeter-wavelength perspective, 2024, MNRAS, 533, 3937
  40. Alaguero A., Cuello N., Ménard F., Ceppi S., Ribas Á., Nealon R., Vioque M., Izquierdo A., Miley J., Macías E., Price D. J., V892 Tau: A tidally perturbed circumbinary disc in a triple stellar system, 2024, A&A, 687, A311
  41. Mendigutía I., Lillo-Box J., Vioque M., Maldonado J., Montesinos B., Huélamo N., Wang J., Gas and not dust: migration of TESS/Gaia hot Jupiters may be halted by magnetospheres in protoplanetary disks, 2024, A&A Letters, 686, L1
  42. Lillo-Box J., Morales-Calderón M., Barrado D., Balsalobre-Ruza O., Castro-González A., Mendigutía I., Huélamo N., Montesinos B., Vioque M., The AstraLux-TESS high-spatial resolution imaging survey. Search for stellar companions of 215 planet candidates from TESS, 2024, A&A, 686, A232
  43. Miley J. M., Carpenter J., Booth R., Jennings J., Haworth T. J., Vioque M., Andrews S., Wilner D., Benisty M., Huang J., Perez L., Guzman V., Ricci L., Isella A., High-resolution ALMA observations of compact discs in the wide-binary system Sz 65 and Sz 66, 2024, A&A, 682, A55
  44. Dodd J. M., Oudmaijer R. D., Radley I. C., Vioque M., Frost A. J., Gaia uncovers difference in B and Be star binarity at small scales: evidence for mass transfer causing the Be phenomenon, 2024, MNRAS, 527, 3076
  45. Shoko J., Trager S. C., Dalton G. B., and et al. (with Vioque M.), The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation, 2024, MNRAS, 530, 2688
  46. Vioque M., Cavieres M., Pantaleoni González M., Ribas Á., Oudmaijer R. D., Mendigutía I., Kilian L., Cánovas H., Kuhn M., Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects, 2023, AJ, 166, 183
  47. Grant S. L., Stapper L. M., Hogerheijde M. R., van Dishoeck E. F., Brittain S., Vioque M., The Mdot–Mdisk relationship for Herbig Ae/Be stars: a lifetime problem for disks with low masses?, 2023, AJ, 166, 147
  48. Pascucci I., Skinner B. N., Deng D., Ruaud M., Gorti U., Schwarz K. R., Chapillon E., Vioque M., Miley J., Large Myr-old Disks Are Not Severely Depleted of Gas-phase CO or Carbon, 2023, ApJ, 953, 183
  49. France K., Arulanantham N., Maloney E., Cauley P. W., Ábrahám P., Alcalá J. M., Campbell-White J., Fiorellino E., Herczeg G. J., Nisini B., Vioque M., The Radial Distribution and Excitation of H2 around Young Stars in the HST-ULLYSES Survey, 2023, AJ, 166, 67
  50. Arulanantham N., Gronke M., Fiorellino E., Gameiro J. F., Frasca A., Green J., Chang S. J., Claes R. A. B., Espaillat C., France K., Herczeg G. J., Manara C. F., Venuti L., Ábrahám P., Alexander R., Bouvier J., Campbell-White J., Eislöffel J., Fischer W. J., Kóspál A., Vioque M., Lyα Scattering Models Trace Accretion and Outflow Kinematics in T Tauri Systems, 2023, ApJ, 944, 185
  51. Guzmán-Díaz J., Montesinos B., Mendigutía I., Kama M., Meeus G., Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Villaver E., Relation between metallicities and spectral energy distributions of Herbig Ae/Be stars. A potential link with planet formation, 2023, A&A, 671, A140
  52. Iglesias D. P., Panić O., van den Ancker M., Petr-Gotzens M., Siess L., Vioque M., Pascucci I., Oudmaijer R. D., Miley J., X-shooter survey of young intermediate-mass stars - I. Stellar characterization and disc evolution, 2023, MNRAS, 519, 3958
  53. Oudmaijer R. D., Jones E. R. M., Vioque M., A census of post-AGB stars in Gaia DR3: Evidence for a substantial population of Galactic post-RGB stars, 2022, MNRAS Letters, 516, L61-L65
  54. Mendigutía I., Solano E., Vioque M., Balaguer-Nuñez L., Ribas Á., Huélamo N., Rodrigo C., Gaia EDR3 comparative study of protoplanetary disk fractions in young stellar clusters, 2022, A&A, 664, A66
  55. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Wichittanakom C., Mendigutía I., Baines D., Panić O., Iglesias D., Miley J., Pérez-Martínez R., Identification and spectroscopic characterization of 128 new Herbig stars, 2022, ApJ, 930, 39
  56. Koumpia E., de Wit W.-J., Oudmaijer R. D., Frost A. J., Lumsden S., Caratti o Garatti A., Goodwin S. P., Stecklum B., Mendigutía I., Ilee J. D., Vioque M., The first interferometric survey in the K-band of massive YSOs. Hot dust, ionised gas, and binarity at au scales, 2021, A&A, 654, A109
  57. Marcos-Arenal P., Mendigutía I., Koumpia E., Oudmaijer R. D., Vioque M., Guzmán-Díaz J., Wichittanakom C., de Wit W. J., Montesinos B., Ilee J. D., K-band GRAVITY/VLTI interferometry of "extreme" Herbig Be stars. The size-luminosity relation revisited, 2021, A&A, 652, A68
  58. van den Ancker M. E., Gentile Fusillo N. P., Haworth T. J., Manara C. F., Miles-Páez P. A., Oudmaijer R. D., Panić O., Petit dit de la Roche D. J. M., Petr-Gotzens M. G., Vioque M., First detection of a disk free of volatile elements around a young A-type star: A possible sign of collisions between rocky planets, 2021, A&A Letters, 651, L11
  59. Guzmán-Díaz J., Mendigutía I., Montesinos B., Oudmaijer R. D., Vioque M., Rodrigo C., Solano E., Meeus G., Marcos-Arenal P., Homogeneous study of Herbig Ae/Be stars from spectral energy distributions and Gaia EDR3, 2021, A&A, 650, A182
  60. Panić O., Haworth T. J., Petr-Gotzens M. G., Miley J., van den Ancker M., Vioque M., Siess L., Parker R., Clarke C. J., Kamp I., Kennedy G., Oudmaijer R. D., Pascucci I., Richards A. M. S., Ratzka T., Qi C., Planet formation in intermediate-separation binary systems, 2021, MNRAS, 501, 4317
  61. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Schreiner M., Mendigutía I., Baines D., Mowlavi N., Pérez-Martínez R., Catalogue of new Herbig Ae/Be and classical Be stars: A machine learning approach to Gaia DR2, 2020, A&A, 638, A21
  62. Wichittanakom C., Oudmaijer R. D., Fairlamb J. R., Mendigutía I., Vioque M., Ababakr K. M., The accretion rates and mechanisms of Herbig Ae/Be stars, 2020, MNRAS, 493, 234
  63. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Baines D., Mendigutía I., Pérez-Martínez R., Gaia DR2 study of Herbig Ae/Be stars, 2018, A&A, 620, A128

Miscellaneous

An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations of disks and planet formation

In this manuscript, led by Nicolás T. Kurtovic, we describe the first 15 years of ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks and planet formation: link to manuscript here.

From this manuscript, this video shows all protoplanetary disks resolved with ALMA as of February 2026, ordered by physical size. Best watched with the volume on!

And this video shows the location of all protoplanetary disks observed with ALMA as of February 2026, ordered by observing date. Also best watched with the volume on!

Historical overview of star formation and Herbig Ae/Be stars

I wrote this (very) brief overview of the history of star formation and Herbig Ae/Be stars for the introduction of my PhD thesis. Those interested in the history of science might find it worth-reading. I compiled literature information and nothing in it is original research.

Conference talks and seminars

If we met at some point, it might have been in one of the below meetings!

  1. 2025 – Multiplicity in Young Stars (Copenhagen, Denmark): On the use of Gaia astrometry to indentify companions in Young Stars
  2. 2024 – Deep Learning IndabaX: Ethical AI Horizons, Navigating the Impact and Future of AI Across Diverse Sectors (Kampala, Uganda): Talk and workshop – Mapping Billions of Stars with Gaia and Other Space Telescopes
  3. 2024 – Spanish Astronomical Society Meeting (Granada, Spain): AGE-PRO: The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks
  4. 2024 – First meeting: The birth of solar systems (PLANETS) COST Action (Torun, Poland): AGE-PRO: The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks
  5. 2024 – European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Padova, Italy): Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects
  6. 2024 – European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Padova, Italy): AGE-PRO: The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks
  7. 2024 – Star Formation across cosmic scales: Machine Learning insights and applications (Budapest, Hungary): Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects
  8. 2024 – Seminar (Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, US): On the Galactic population of Herbig stars
  9. 2024 – Invited talk, Stellar-MADE ERC Winter Meeting (Grenoble, France): Herbig Ae/Be stars, brainstorm and discussion
  10. 2023 – Seminar (Côte d'Azur Observatory, Nice, France)
  11. 2023 – Seminar (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
  12. 2023 – Seminar (University of Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile): On the distribution of massive forming stars in the Galaxy
  13. 2023 – Seminar (Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy): Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects
  14. 2023 – Seminar (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy): Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects
  15. 2023 – Gaia XPloration: Discovery and measurement with low-resolution spectroscopy (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom): Clustering properties and Galactic distribution of intermediate and high-mass YSOs using Gaia DR3 and unsupervised machine learning
  16. 2022 – Accretion/Ejection Processes in Star Formation: In Theory and in Practice (ESO, Santiago, Chile): Accretion on populations of intermediate and high-mass YSOs
  17. 2022 – Seminar (Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva): On the distribution of massive forming stars in the Galaxy
  18. 2022 – Seminar (Spanish Group of Massive Stars, online): The dearth of O-stars close to the ZAMS. Link with the measured accretion rates in high-mass YSOs
  19. 2022 – XV Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (La Laguna, Spain): A new perspective on the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  20. 2022 – European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Valencia, Spain): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation with machine learning
  21. 2022 – From Stars to Galaxies II. Connecting our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  22. 2022 – Seminar (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  23. 2022 – Joint Observatories Kavli Science Forum (ESO, Santiago, Chile): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  24. 2021 – Machine Learning in Astronomy, from classical to physics-informed (virtual workshop): Member of the discussion session and of the round table
  25. 2021 – Seminar (Núcleo Milenio for Planet Formation, Valparaíso, Chile): Finding new forming high-mass stars
  26. 2021 – Invited talk, Workshop en ciencia de datos (Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile): Machine learning en astronomía y resolución de problemas con muchas incógnitas
  27. 2020 – Seminar (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): Catalogue of new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars. A Machine Learning approach to Gaia data
  28. 2020 – Seminar (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile): Catalogue of new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars. A Machine Learning approach to Gaia data
  29. 2020 – Seminar (ESO, Santiago, Chile): Catalogue of new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars. A Machine Learning approach to Gaia DR2
  30. 2019 – Seminar (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia): Machine Learning techniques in Astronomy
  31. 2019 – The UX Ori Type Stars and Related Topics (St. Petersburg, Russia): New UX Ori type candidates detected using Gaia DR2 and Machine Learning
  32. 2019 – Seminar (ESAC, Madrid, Spain): New Herbig Ae/Be and Classical Be candidates using Gaia and Machine Learning
  33. 2019 – Workshop: Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy (ESO, Garching, Germany): New catalogue of Pre-Main Sequence objects using AI
  34. 2019 – Gaia’s view of Pre-Main Sequence Evolution (Leeds, UK): New catalogue of Pre-Main Sequence objects using Gaia
  35. 2018 – Seminar (Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain): Machine Learning Algorithms and its applications to Astronomy
  36. 2018 – A Revolution in Stellar Physics with Gaia and Large Surveys (Warsaw, Poland): Gaia Study on the Formation of Intermediate Mass Stars
  37. 2018 – Spring Symposium: The 21st Century H-R Diagram: The Power of Precision Photometry (STScI, Baltimore, USA): Gaia Study on the Formation of Intermediate Mass Stars
  38. 2018 – Seminar (Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain): Gaia study of Herbig Ae/Be stars
  39. 2017 – Star Cluster Formation: Mapping the First Few Myrs (Madrid, Spain): Herbig Ae/Be stars with TGAS parallaxes in the HR diagram
  40. 2017 – Seminar (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): Herbig Ae/Be stars with TGAS parallaxes in the HR diagram