Jairo Mendez-Abreu

Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

Education.

Ph.D. Astrophysics. Univ. of Padova (Italy) co-tutorship with Univ. of La Laguna (Spain). 2004-2008. DOWNLOAD

My thesis, Structure and Dynamics of the Central Regions of Disc Galaxies, investigated the interplay between structural components present in the central regions of disc galaxies, namely bulges and bars. It presents the development of GASP2D (my 2D photometric decomposition code) and the first detection of a peanut-shaped bulge in a face-on galaxy.
Degree in Physics, with speciality in Astrophysics. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain). 1999-2003

Research Experience.

Research Fellow. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. Spain. 2017 -

I am the PI of the group 'Galaxy Evolution in Galaxy Clusters'.
Research Fellow. School of Physics and Astronomy. Univ. of St Andrews. UK. 2013-2016

As a member of the SEDmorph team, I was leading the 2D photometric decomposition of both a sample of low- and high-redshift galaxies extracted from the CALIFA and CANDELS (the latter actually represents the Ph.D. thesis of my student J. Argyle), respectively, to establish links among the properties of the stellar structures with cosmic time.
Juan de la Cierva Fellow. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. Spain. 2012-2013

This fellowship allowed me to pursue my independent research about the joint evolution of bulges and bars. I studied the role of environments on bar formation finding a bimodal effect depending on galaxy mass.

CONSOLIDER-GTC Fellow. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. Spain. 2008-2012

I actively participated in fostering the early scientific exploitation of the GTC 10.4m telescope (Spain). I became an expert on scanning tomography by using the tunable filters. This incursion into the instrumental side of astronomy led to a technical publication and motivated my current participation in several instrumental projects

Major Collaborations and Instrumentation Projects.

The Origins of Galaxy Bimodality: SEDmorph.
Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey: CALIFA
A deep VIMOS survey of the CANDELS fields: VANDELS
Fossil Group Origins: FOGO
Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources: SHARDS
A deep VIMOS surveys of CANDELS fields:VANDELS
Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey: CANDELS
GTC/MEGARA: Optical IFU and Multi-Object Spectrograph designed for the 10.4m GTC, La Palma.
GTC/EMIR: Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph designed for the 10.4m GTC, La Palma.
WHT/WEAVE: Wide Field, Multi-Object Spectrograph proposed for the 4.2m WHT, La Palma.