# José G. Funes

José Gabriel Funes, né le 31 janvier 1963 à Córdoba (Argentine) est un prêtre jésuite argentin et astronome. Il a été directeur de l’observatoire astronomique du Vatican (à Castelgandolfo) de 2006 à 2015.

## Biographie

Né le 31 janvier 1963 à Córdoba en Argentine, Jose Funes entre dans la Compagnie de Jésus le 11 mars 1985. Au terme de sa formation religieuse et sacerdotale, avec des études de théologie à l’université grégorienne de Rome, Funes est ordonné prêtre le 2 décembre 1995.
Très tôt porté vers l’astronomie il a déjà un ‘master’ en astronomie de l’université de Córdoba (Argentine) lorsqu’il entre chez les jésuites (1985). Après son ordination sacerdotale il se spécialise en astronomie à l’université de Padoue (Italie) où il obtient son doctorat en l’an 2000. Chercheur à l’observatoire astronomique du Vatican en 2000, il en devient le directeur le 19 août 2006, succédant à ce poste au père George Coyne.

## Articles scientifiques

| Auteurs | Titre | Périodique | Année |
| LAPASSET E. and FUNES J.G. | The peculiar behaviour of the photometric variability of V508 Ophiuchi. | Astrophys. Space Sci., 113, 83-87 | 1985 |
| CORSINI E.M., PIZZELLA A., FUNES J.G., VEGA BELTRAN J.C. and BERTOLA F. | The circumnuclear ring of ionized gas in NGC 3593. | Astron. Astrophys., 337, 80-84 | 1998 |
| VEGA BELTRAN J.C., ZEILINGER W.W., AMICO P., SCHULTHEIS M., CORSINI E.M., FUNES J.G., BECKMAN J. and BERTOLA F. | Mixed early and late-type properties in the bar of NGC 6221: Evidence for evolution along the Hubble sequence? | Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 131, 105-114 | 1998 |
| BERTOLA F., CAPPELLARI M., FUNES J.G., CORSINI E.M., PIZZELLA A. and VEGA BELTRAN J.C. | Circumnuclear Keplerian disks in galaxies. | Astrophys. J., 509, L93-L96 | 1998 |
| CORSINI E.M., PIZZELLA A., SARZI M., CINZANO P., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., FUNES J.G., BERTOLA F., PERSIC M. and SALUCCI P. | Dark matter in early-type spiral galaxies: the case of NGC 2179 and of NGC 2775. | Astron. Astrophys., 342, 671-686 | 1999 |
| BERTOLA F., CORSINI E.M., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., PIZZELLA A., SARZI M., CAPPELLARI M. and FUNES J.G. | The bulge-disk orthogonal decoupling in galaxies: NGC 4698. | Astrophys. J., 519, L127-L130 | 1999 |
| SARZI M., CORSINI E.M., PIZZELLA A., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., CAPPELLARI M., FUNES J.G. and BERTOLA F. | NGC 4672: A new case of an early-type disk galaxy with an orthogonally decoupled core. | Astron. Astrophys., 360, 439-446 | 2000 |
| FUNES J.G. and CORSINI E.M. | Galaxy disks and disk galaxies. (Conference highlights). | Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 112, 1510–1511 | 2000 |
| VEGA BELTRAN J.C., PIZZELLA A., CORSINI E.M., FUNES J.G., ZEILINGER W.W., BECKMAN J.E. and BERTOLA F. | Kinematic properties of gas and stars in 20 disc galaxies. | Astron. Astrophys., 374, 394-411 | 2001 |
| VENNIK J., FUNES J.G., RAFANELLI P. and RICHTER G.M. | Structure of the Seyfert 2 galaxy Mkn 955. | Astron. Gesellschaft Abstract Ser., 18, 210-210 | 2001 |
| SARZI M., BERTOLA F., CAPPELLARI M., CORSINI E.M., FUNES J.G., PIZZELLA A. and VEGA BELTRAN J.C. | The orthogonal bulge-disc decoupling in NGC 4698. | Astrophys. Space Sci., 276, 467-473 | 2001 |
| VEGA BELTRAN J.C., ZEILINGER W.W., PIZZELLA A., CORSINI E.M., BERTOLA F., FUNES J.G. and BECKMAN J.E. | Kinematics of gas and stars in 20 disc galaxies. | Astrophys. Space Sci., 276, 1201–1210 | 2001 |
| PIGNATELLI E., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., BECKMAN J.E., CORSINI E.M., PIZZELLA A., SCARLATA C., BERTOLA F., FUNES J.G. and ZEILINGER W.W. | Modeling gas and stellar kinematics in disc galaxies NGC 772, NGC 3898 and NGC 7782. | Astrophys. Space Sci. Suppl., 277, 493-494 | 2001 |
| PIGNATELLI E., CORSINI E.M., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., SCARLATA C., PIZZELLA A., FUNES J.G., ZEILINGER W.W., BECKMAN J.E. and BERTOLA F. | Modelling gaseous and stellar kinematics in the disc galaxies NGC 772, 3898 and 7782. | Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 323, 188-210 | 2001 |
| PIZZELLA A., BERTOLA F., SARZI M., CORSINI E.M., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., CAPPELLARI M. and FUNES J.G. | NGC 4672: a new case of an early-type disk galaxy with an orthogonally decoupled core. | Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital., 72, 797-800 | 2001 |
| FUNES J.G. | Kinematics of the ionized gas in the inner regions of disk galaxies. (Dissertation summary). | Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 113, 257-257 | 2001 |
| FUNES J.G., CORSINI E.M., CAPPELLARI M., PIZZELLA A., VEGA BELTRAN J.C., SCARLATA C. and BERTOLA F. | Position-velocity diagrams of ionized gas in the inner regions of disk galaxies. | Astron. Astrophys., 388, 50-67 | 2002 |
| FUNES J.G., REJKUBA M., MINNITI D., AKIYAMA S. and KENNICUTT R.C. | Star formation in the disk of NGC 5128. | American Astron. Soc. meeting, 201, #20.23 | 2002 |
| COCCATO L., CORSINI E.M., PIZZELLA A., MORELLI L., FUNES J.G. and BERTOLA F. | Minor-axis velocity gradients in disk galaxies'. | Astron. Astrophys., 416, 507-514 | 2004 |
| LEE J.C., KENNICUTT R.C., FUNES J.G., SAKAI S., TREMONTI C.A. and VAN ZEE L. | 11HUGS: The 11 Mpc H-{alpha} and ultraviolet galaxy survey. | American Astron. Soc. meeting, 205, #60.04 | 2004 |
| KENNICUTT R.C., LEE J.C., AKIYAMA S., FUNES J.G. and SAKAI S. | An H-{alpha} imaging survey of galaxies in the local 11 Mpc volume. | American Astron. Soc. meeting, 205, #60.05 | 2004 |
| KRALL C. and FUNES J.G. | H-alpha and UBR imaging of elliptical galaxies with dust lanes. | American Astron. Soc. meeting, 205, #92.04 | 2004 |
| MINNITI D., REJKUBA M., FUNES J.G. and AKIYAMA S. | Optical counterparts of X-ray point sources observed by Chandra in NGC 5128: 20 new globular cluster X-ray sources. | Astrophys. J., 600, 716-728 | 2004 |
| MINNITI D., REJKUBA M., FUNES J.G. and KENNICUTT R.C.Jr | The most exciting massive binary cluster in NGC 5128: clues to the formation of globular clusters. | Astrophys. J., 612, 215-221 | 2004 |
| VILLEGAS D., MINNITI D. and FUNES J.G. | HST photometry of the binary globular cluster Sersic 13N-S in NGC 5128. | Astron. Astrophys., 442, 437-442 | 2005 |
| GUTIERREZ C.M., ALONSO M.S., FUNES J.G. and RIBEIRO M.B. | Star formation in satellite galaxies. | Astron. J., 132, 596-607 | 2006 |
| LEE J.C., KENNICUTT R.C., FUNES J.G., SAKAI S. and AKIYAMA S. | The star formation demographics of galaxies in the Local Volume. | Astrophys. J., 671, L113-L116 | 2007 |