S&C Episode: Beatriz Villarroel Astronomical Investigator (VASCO Project)

Beatriz Villarroel is a Postdoctoral researcher (Nordic Fellow), Stockholm University, Sweden Affiliated researcher with Instituto de Astrof ́ısica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain Principal Investigator of the "Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" project (VASCO).

The VASCO project "aims at finding astro-physically interesting mismatches between historical sky surveys: ‘Which object flickered out from our celestial radar?’, ‘Which locations hint at astronomical spectacles to discover?’."

You can learn more about the VASCO project at: https://vasconsite.wordpress.com/blog/.

You can learn more about the Galileo Project at: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/people/biatriz-villarroel-phd

She works with Dr. Avi Loeb on the Galileo Project.

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