Julio Chanamé joined DTM on 1 September as a Hubble Fellow, following a postdoctoral position at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He received his Master's degree in Physics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy at The Ohio State University in 2005. Stealing a term coined by others, Chanamé considers himself an observationally oriented theorist, with interests in the dynamics of stellar systems, the nature of dark matter, the formation of the Milky Way and the Local Group, and stellar structure and evolution. His current research focuses on the detailed kinematics of stars in clusters and nearby galaxies in order to study their underlying total (dark+luminous) mass distribution, as well as the many applications of wide binaries to the study of the galaxy. At DTM, Chanamé plans to investigate the properties of the dark halos surrounding the smallest known galaxies, scrutinize the motions of stars at the center of stellar clusters in search of the signature of massive black holes, and place ever more stringent limits to the mass and density of massive compact objects in the Galactic halo.