Elisa Rita Garro
PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Short Bio
I am currently research fellow
at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
in Vitacura, Chile.
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I obtained my Ph.D. in 2023
at the Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile.
I am a very active person, a food enthusiast and constantly looking for new stimuli.
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Image credit: © Elisa Rita Garro
Research Interests
Keep track of new globular cluster candidate in the Milky Way: 36 (Garro et al. 2024)
I am mainly interested in the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. In particular, I study globular clusters, since they are the oldest objects in our Galaxy (as well as in external galaxies), so they can help us answer still open questions, such as: how did the Milky Way form? If hierarchically, how many accretion events have it experienced? What kind of stellar populations reside within our Galaxy? What was the chemical evolution of our Galaxy and its Globular Cluster System? Are globular clusters tracers of merger events?
Latest
Publications
2025
Stay tuned!
2024
VVVX survey dusts off a new intermediate-age star cluster in the Milky Way disk
Garro, Minniti, Alonso-García, et al. A&A, 688, L3 (2024)
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Over 200 globular clusters in the Milky Way and still none with super-Solar metallicity
Garro, Minniti, Fernández-Trincado A&A, 687, A214 (2024)