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2026

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D-Index
91
Citations
31818
World Ranking
2170
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Physics in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Beatriz Barbuy is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has a significant research presence primarily in the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly output spans areas such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Geophysics.

Their main topics of research encompass stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, astro and planetary science, astronomical observations and instrumentation, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, as well as astronomical and nuclear sciences.

Recent scientific contributions include the following papers:

  • The Milky Way bar and bulge revealed by APOGEE and Gaia EDR3, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XXIII. Proper-motion Catalogs and Internal Kinematics, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • An Updated Small Magellanic Cloud and Magellanic Bridge Catalog of Star Clusters, Associations, and Related Objects, 2020, The Astronomical Journal
  • The VISCACHA survey - IV. The SMC West Halo in 8D, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • CAPOS: The bulge Cluster APOgee Survey, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent collaborators include:

  • D. Minniti
  • S. O. Souza
  • José G. Fernández-Trincado
  • Ángeles Pérez-Villegas
  • C. Chiappini

Throughout their career, Beatriz Barbuy has worked extensively on both observational and theoretical aspects of galactic and stellar astronomy, particularly contributing knowledge relevant to galactic structure and star cluster studies.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, they were named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • First stars V - abundance patterns from C to Zn and supernova yields in the early galaxy

    R. Cayrel;E. Depagne;M. Spite;V. Hill

  • The Stellar Populations of Galaxies

    B. Barbuy;A. Renzini

  • The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey

    G. Gilmore;S. Randich;M. Asplund;J. Binney

  • VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way

    D. Minniti;P. W. Lucas;J. P. Emerson;R. K. Saito

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • The extreme r-element rich, iron-poor halo giant CS31082-001: Implications for the r-process site(s) and radioactive cosmochronology

    V. Hill;B. Plez;R. Cayrel;T. C. Beers

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview of the Project and Detection of Multiple Stellar Populations

    G. Piotto;G. Piotto;A. P. Milone;L. R. Bedin;J. Anderson

  • A library of high resolution synthetic stellar spectra from 300nm to 1.8 micron with solar and alpha-enhanced composition

    P. Coelho;B. Barbuy;J. Melendez;R. Schiavon

  • First stars VI - Abundances of C, N, O, Li, and mixing in extremely metal-poor giants. Galactic evolution of the light elements

    M. Spite;R. Cayrel;B. Plez;V. Hill

  • Vvv dr1: the first data release of the milky way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared eso public survey vista variables in the via lactea

    R. K. Saito;M. Hempel;D. Minniti;D. Minniti;P. W. Lucas

  • First stars. I. The extreme r-element rich, iron-poor halo giant CS 31082-001 - Implications for the r-process site(s) and radioactive cosmochronology

    V. Hill;B. Plez;R. Cayrel;T. C. Beers

  • Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay.

    R. Cayrel;V. Hill;T. C. Beers;B. Barbuy

  • Age and Metallicity Distribution of the Galactic Bulge from Extensive Optical and Near-IR Stellar Photometry

    Manuela Zoccali;Alvio Renzini;Sergio Ortolani;Laura Greggio

  • First stars VI - Abundances of C, N, O, Li, and mixing in extremely metal-poor giants. Galactic evolution of the light elements

    M Spite;R Cayrel;B Plez;V Hill

  • A library of high resolution synthetic stellar spectra from 300 nm to 1.8 μm with solar and α-enhanced composition

    P. Coelho;B. Barbuy;J. Meléndez;R. P. Schiavon

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters – IX. The Atlas of multiple stellar populations

    A. P. Milone;G. Piotto;A. Renzini;A. F. Marino

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview of the Project and Detection of Multiple Stellar Populations

    Giampaolo Piotto;Giampaolo Piotto;Antonino Milone;Luigi Bedin;J. Anderson

  • Near-coeval formation of the Galactic bulge and halo inferred from globular cluster ages

    Sergio Ortolani;Alvio Renzini;Alvio Renzini;Roberto Gilmozzi;Gianni Marconi

  • The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

  • The metal content of bulge field stars from FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra - I. Stellar parameters and iron abundances

    M. Zoccali;V. Hill;A. Lecureur;A. Lecureur;B. Barbuy

Frequent Co-Authors

Dante Minniti
Dante Minniti Andrés Bello University
Alvio Renzini
Alvio Renzini National Institute for Astrophysics
Manuela Zoccali
Manuela Zoccali Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Timothy C. Beers
Timothy C. Beers University of Notre Dame
Bertrand Plez
Bertrand Plez University of Montpellier
Piercarlo Bonifacio
Piercarlo Bonifacio Université Paris Cité
Jorge Melendez
Jorge Melendez Universidade de São Paulo
Paolo Molaro
Paolo Molaro National Institute for Astrophysics
Ricardo P. Schiavon
Ricardo P. Schiavon Liverpool John Moores University
Doug Geisler
Doug Geisler University of La Serena

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