Guillermo Tenorio Tagle
Stay at the IAC: 15/10/2014 to 15/01/2015 
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Prof. Tenorio-Tagle gave a Severo Ochoa-Jesús Serra Foundation seminar at the IAC on January 22nd 2015, entitled On the origin of the absorption and emission line components in the spectra of PHL 293B.
Tenorio-Tagle is full Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE, Puebla - Mexico), a position he has held since 1998.
He obtained his Ph.D. at the Victoria University of Manchester (UK) in 1975. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute of Astrophysics in Munich (Germany) and at the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Geneva, Switzerland). He returned to the Max-Planck Institute of Astrophysics as head of the Interstellar Matter group, position held for almost nine years (1980 - 1989). Later, he became an invited Professor at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Tenerife, Spain) until February 1996. He was then awarded the Professorship Chair from the BBV-Foundation at the University of Cambridge (UK) where he was hosted at the Institute of Astronomy, for two years (1996 - 1998).
Prof. Tenorio-Tagle is a world recognized expert on Interstellar Matter, Star Formation and the Feedback from Massive Stars.
While staying at the IAC, Prof. Tenorio-Tagle has collaborated primarily with the "Estallidos" group, led by Casiana Muñoz Tuñón. The central theme of this collaboration is star formation and the physics that takes place during the formation of young, coeval and massive clusters, as in the so-called "stellar super clusters" (SSCs), or during violent starbursts in galaxies at high redshift. The specific objectives of the stay as a visiting researcher are:
- Discuss several results on the hydrodynamics of the material reinserted into massive and young SSCs.
- Perform a detailed comparison between observations of HII galaxies and evolutionary models that have been generated by the group of Prof. Tenorio-Tagle in Mexico.
- Collaborate on proposals for observing time, both with the GTC and the GTM, with the intention of having specific data of the gas phases that make up low metallicity galaxies.
