Manufacturing the elements of life: massive stars

Supervisors: Miriam García García y Francisco Najarro

M. Lorenzo earned her Physics degree in 2018 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2019, she obtained a Master’s degree in Astrophysics offered by the same University. In 2020, she did a traineeship at the European Space Agency, involved in analysing high-resolution spectra taken with Herschel/HIFI to study outflows in protoplanetary nebulae and young planetary nebulae. In that same year, she obtained a Master’s degree in Data Science from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

Currently, M. Lorenzo carries out her doctoral thesis focused on the characterization of massive stars with low-metal content. Through the analysis of medium-resolution spectroscopy taken by the largest terrestrial telescopes, GTC and VLT, she will detect OB-type stars in Local Group galaxies with low metallicity and will determine their stellar parameters. This study will bring us closer to better understanding the physics of the first stars of the Universe.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4526-2018