Curriculum Vitae:

Bruno Dias is a professor at the Institute of Astrophysics, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Chile, with 46+ refereed publications (2010-2023). Bruno got a PhD from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil in 2014, including an ESO studentship, which gave him two prizes for best thesis at the same university. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University, UK and Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, besides being awarded an ESO fellowship. He has been an independent researcher of the Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile. His main research line is on stellar populations of the Milky Way and Local Group galaxies, in particular studying their star clusters. Bruno is the PI of the VISCACHA survey that is the project with more accumulated nights at SOAR telescope, using adaptive optics to obtain deep and spatially resolved photometry of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, and spectroscopic follow-up with GMOS/Gemini. The big goal of VISCACHA is to trace the past chemo-dynamical history of the Magellanic Clouds using their star cluster population as well as to analyse the internal structure, kinematics and stellar populations within individual clusters. Among his main personal objectives, Bruno wishes to produce high-level science with Latin America astronomers, which is evident with the VISCACHA team of about 40 members in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, México, and 12 VISCACHA or VISCACHA-related refereed papers since 2019 and growing, as well as active research grants in Chile, Brazil, and fund raising for scientific meetings. Bruno also created the ESO Python Boot Camp and gave the first steps to move ESO Paranal systems to Python. Bruno co-created, directed and taught in the Diplomado en Astronomía General at UNAB, the only in Chile. Bruno is also a member of the VVVX, SDSS-V, SPLUS survey teams, and MOSAIC/ELT science team. Last but not least, he is the current president of Chilean Astronomical Society (2023-2024) and president of the IAU-NCA in Chile, working to develop Astronomy in Chile, which hosts more than 50% of the global collecting area from ground-based telescopes.