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Education, expertise, skills and others

 

 

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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH:
 

  • September 2021 - present, Severo Ochoa Advanced Fellow, Insituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain)

  • September 2018 -August 2021, Junior Leader 'La Caixa' fellow, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (Barcelona, Spain)

  • July 2016 -July 2018, Postdoctoral research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia)

  • 2013-2016,  Extragalactic Research Specialist Fellow, Subaru Telescope, (Hilo, USA)

  • 2008-2013, Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)

  • 2009,  M.phys. in Astrophysics, Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)

  • 2008, Degree in Physics, Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)

 

AWARDS:

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  • 2023-to present, Ramon y Cajal Fellow

  • 2021-2022, Severo Ochoa Advanced Fellow

  • 2018-2021, Junior Leader 'La Caixa' Fellowship 

  • 2018, Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (rejected for the Junior Leader)

  • 2017, SUPRA Grant for PhD student hire 

  • 2008-2012,  Scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education 

  • 2009, Mobility Exchange Grant for the European PhD mention

  • 2007-2008, Erasmus grant, Universidad de La Laguna

  • Telescope time: as PI 200h in the largest optical telescopes / as co-I > 300

 

COMMITTEES, AFFILIATIONS and COLLABORATIONS:

 

  • Board Member of La Caixa Fellows Association (2020 to present)

  • Equity and Diversity Committee Member CAS (2017-2018), ICCUB (2019-2021)

  • Seminar and Colloquium Committee Organizer Member (IAC, 2010-2012)

  • Referee of ApJ, MNRAS, Nature Astronomy

  • IAU Junior Member, SEA Member

  • Team Member of the surveys and working groups:

       RAVET, WEAVE-Steps, WEAVE-Clusters, SLUGGs, JAGGs, MAGPI, 4HS, 4MOST_Steps, MAVIS,

        INSPIRE, CATARSIS, EUCLID, CAVITY   

  • Panel Member for Ph.D. student reviews and postdoc hirings

  • Local Organizer Committee for: 

    • "Our Science Day" (Puerto de la Cruz, June 2011)

    • "2013 RAVET Meeting" (La Laguna, May 2013)

    • "Subaru Autumn School 2014" (Tokyo, September 2014)

    • "EWASS 2015 Meeting" (La Laguna, June 2015)

    • "Subaru Users Meeting 2015" (Atami, January 2016)

  • Chair and/or SOC for:

    • "The Renaissance of the low surface brightness Universe", EAS2021 Symposium, Leiden July 2021

    • "Variations in the IMF within galaxies", EAS2021 Special Session, Leiden July 2021

    • "COSMIC NUGGETS – A FEAST OF COMPACT AND MASSIVE GALAXIES ACROSS THE UNIVERSE", Sexten, January 2022

    • "4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities", ESA symposium, Barcelona April 2022

    • "The sunrise of Ultra diffuse Galaxies", Sexten June 2023

    • "A life devoted to the stellar populations", October 2023

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SUPERVISION, MENTORSHIP, and TEACHING:

 

  • Postodcs: Núria Salvador-Rusiñol (ICCUB, 2021); Elham Efthekari (IAC, from June 2023)

  • Ph.D. student: Jonah Gannon (Swinburne University Ph.D., 2019-2022, now postdoc at Swinburne University)

  • B.S thesis supervisor: Aleks Lecima (ICCUB, 2019); Claudia Soriano (UAB, 2019, Premi Sant Jordi for 'Best TFG 2020'); Pau Grèbol (UAB, 2021, Premi Sant Jordi for 'Best TFG 2021'); Javier Navarro (ULL, present); Cathaysa Perdomo (ULL, present)

  • MsC thesis supervisor: Claudia Soriano(UB 2021, Premi Sant Jordi for 'Best MsC Thesis 2021'; Pau Grèbol, ULL 2022-2023)

  • Ph.D. students mentor: Sabine Bellstedt, CAS; Leonie Chevalier, CAS; Núria Salvador, IAC)

  • Teaching: Subaru Autumn School (NAOJ, 2014); SAO Project Supervision, University of Swinburne; Practiques Astronomia Observacional (UB 2021)

 

OUTREACH

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  • Educator for Journey through the Universe (2015, 2016, Hilo, Hawaii)

  • Presenter for Astro-day (2014, Hilo Hawaii)

  • Chatea con una Astrónoma (February 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023; Spain)

  • Dia Internacional de la Dona i la Nena a la Ciencia (February 2020, Spain)

  • Outreach talks: Observatori Astronomic de Sabadell (Barcelona, 2020), Associacio Astronomica de Terrassa (Barcelona, 2020), School talk for the #100tifiques event (Barcelona, 2021, 2022), Biennal de la Ciencia i la Ciutat (Barcelona, 2021), Associacio Astronomica de Calella (Barcelona, 2021)

 

SKILLS:

 

  • Expertise in optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, both in longslit and Integral field Spectroscopy 

  • In-depth knowledge of REDUCME (Cardiel 1999) and IRAF/pyRAF data reduction packages. Proficiency with ds9 and TOPCAT and knowledge of Qtsview.

  • Stellar populations: Expertise in the SSP model predictor interpolator RMODEL (Cardiel 1999) for the stellar population parameters and state-of-the-art tools and stellar population models from the MILES group; expertise in the full-spectrum-fitting codes STARLIGHT (Cid Fernandes 2005), ULYSS (Koleva 2009), pPXF (Cappellari 2010) and STECKMAP (Ocvirk 205)

  • Morphology: Notions of GALFIT (Peng 2002, 2010)

  • Kinematics: Expertise in PPxF (Cappellari & Emsellem 2004) for the stellar kinematics and in GANDALF (Sarzi et al. 2006) for the gas kinematics

  • Background in handling databases and catalogs

  • IDL, Python and FORTRAN programming.

  • Proficiency with Mac OSX, Linux and Windows platforms and common software such as Microsoft Office and LATEX.

  • Languages: English, Spanish and Catalan (proficiency level), Italian (advanced level), German (intermediate level).

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