Welcome to the PLAGA website!
We are a research group lead by Jorge Cuadra at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) in Viña del Mar, but with some research students based at other universities in Chile. We work on different topics in Astrophysics, with a focus on numerical simulations of the Galactic Centre, planet formation, and other accreting systems (see Publications).
We are part of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Physics + Astro group.
Our work on accreting black holes and their environment is carried out as part of the Millennium Nucleus for Transversal Research and Technology to explore Supermassive Black Holes (TITANS), funded by the Iniciativa Científica Milenio. We are also grateful for funding from different ANID and UAI programmes.
News
01 Nov 2025Astor Sandoval joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher at UAI. Welcome, Astor!
20 Feb 2025G Granda-Muñoz et al published their paper on the magnetic field orientation in dense clouds
02 Dec 2024UAI has postdoctoral positions open! (Now closed)
19 Nov 2024TITANS has a postdoctoral position open! (Now closed)
12 Nov 2024M Vergara defended succesfully his dissertation. Congratulations!
30 Oct 2024M Sucerquia et al published their paper on the missing rings around Solar System moons
18 Oct 2024A Scherer & J Cuadra published their paper on multiwavelength Galactic center gamma-rays from a unified cosmic-rays model
01 Oct 2024J Cuadra received the Award for the Greatest Impact in Scientific Research at UAI
01 Aug 2024C Ordenes-Huanca et al published their paper on the kinematics and infrared variability of the star-forming complex NGC 6357