I am a Chilean astronomer from Santiago de Chile. In 2019, I obtained my PhD in Astronomy at Universidad de Chile. Between 2019 and 2021, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Millennium Institute for Astrophysics (MAS); then, in November 2021, I moved to Garching, Germany, to work as a Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Since March 2024, I have worked as a User Support Astronomer at ESO. I am also a member of the ALeRCE broker, one of the official brokers for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory legacy survey of space and time (LSST). My main research interests are the study of transients and variable objects in the universe, particularly Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and the application of statistical and machine learning techniques to astronomical data sets.

Education

• PhD in Astronomy, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile [2013 - 2019]

• Bachelor's Degree in in Astronomy, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile [2008 - 2013]

Work Experience

• User Support Astronomer, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany [March 2024 - present]

• Assistant Faculty Astronomer, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany [March 2024 - present]

• ESO Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany [November 2021 - February 2024]

• FONDECYT Fellow, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile [April 2020 - October 2021]

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Inria Chile, Santiago, Chile [December 2020 - August 2021]

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile [May 2019 - April 2020]

• ESO Student, European Southern Observatory, Vitacura, Chile [April 2018 - March 2019]

• Visitor student, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Beijing, China [March 2017 - June 2017]

• Visitor student, Penn State University (PSU), State College, USA [January 2017 - February 2017]

• Email: paula.sanchezsaez@eso.org

• Phone: +49 89 3200 6580

• Address: European Southern Observatory (ESO), Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany