The IACOB project
A new era in the study of Galactic massive OB stars

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Members of the IACOB project and some external collaborators

  • Michael Adbul Masih (IAC, Tenerife, La Caixa junior leadership felllow)
  • Conny Aerts (KU, Leuven Belgium)
  • Catalina Arcos (Univ. de Valparaiso, Chile)
  • Paul Beck (TU Graz, Styria, Austria)
  • Dominic Bowman (KU, Leuven, Belgium)
  • Nikolay Britavskiy (Liège  University, Belgium)
  • Siemen Burssens (KU, Leuven, Belgium)
  • Alba Casasbuenas (NOT, La Palma, Spain, IACOB PhD student 2023-2027)
  • Norberto Castro (AIP, Potsdam, Germany)
  • Abel de Burgos (IACOB PhD student 2019-2023)
  • Sylvia Ekström (Obs. Gevène, Switzerland)
  • Gabriel Ferrero (ULP, La Plata, Argentina)
  • Roberto Gamen (ULP, La Plata, Argentina)
  • Miriam García (CAB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Artemio Herrero (IAC/ULL, Tenerife, Spain)
  • Gonzalo Holgado (IACOB PhD student 2014-2018)
  • Zsolt Keszthelyi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan)
  • Norbert Langer (UNiversität Bonn, Germany)
  • Danny Lennon (IAC, Tenerife, Spain)
  • Carlos Martínez Sebástian (IACOB PhD student 2022-2026)
  • Amparo Marco (UA, Alicante, Spain)
  • Jesús Maíz Apellaniz (CAB/INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Sébastien Martinet (Obs. Genève, Switzerland)
  • Paco Najarro (CAB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • Ignacio Negueruela (UA, Alicante, Spain)
  • Yeisson Osorio (ING, La Palma, Spain)
  • Michelangelo Pantaleoni (UCM, Madrid, Spain)
  • Jorge A. Pérez Prieto (IAC, Tenerife, Spain, main developer of the new interface of the IACOB spectroscopic database)
  • Jo Puls (USM, Munich, Germany)
  • Sara Rodriguez Berlanas (UA, Alicante, Spain)
  • Klaus Rübke (UA, Alicate, Spain)
  • Sergio Simón-Díaz (IAC/ULL, Tenerife, Spain, Principal investigator, CV )
  • John Telting (NOT, La Palma, Spain)
  • Miguel A. Urbaneja (Univeristy of Innsbruck, Austria)

Old members and collaborators

  • Melanie Godart (postdoc fellow at IAC 2015-2016)
  • Carolina Sabín-Sanjulian (Universidad de La Serena, Chile)
  • Javier Lorenzo (UA, Alicante, Spain)
  • Andreas Irrgang (Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg, Germany)
  • Rodolfo Barbá (ULS, La Serena, Chile)
  • Ricardo Dorda (IACOB Postdoc 2020-2021, IAC, Tenerife, Spain)
  • Athira Menon (Postdoc JdC 2022-2025, IAC, Tenerife Spain)

IACOB students

  • Gonzalo Holgado (PhD student 2014-2018, IAC)
  • Alberto García Díaz (Practicum student, 2016-2017, ULL)
  • Daniel Morera de Paz (Practicum student, 2018-2019, ULL)
  • Enrique García Zamora (MSc student 2018-2019, ULL)
  • Abel de Burgos (Summer student, 2018, PhD student 2019-2023, IAC)
  • José Andrés Avellaneda (BSc student, 2020-2021, ULL)
  • Jordi Eguren Brown (MSc student, 2019-2022, co-supervised, Univ. La Plata)
  • Jose Ever González Euceda (PhD student 2019- , co-supervised, Univ. Poitécnica de Valencia & Univ. Nacional Autónoma de Honduras)
  • Claudio Cuervo (MSc student 2020-2021, ULL
  • Carlos Martínez Sebástian (Summer student 2021, PhD student 2022-2026, IAC)
  • Alejandro Santos (MSc student 2021-2022, ULL)
  • Alba Casasbuenas (MSc student 2022-2023, ULL)
  • Wynonah Rebutar (BSc student 2022- , Philippines)
  • Sara Cuellar (PhD student, Univ. Valparaiso, Chile. Long term PhD stay at the IAC in 2023)
  • Carlota Méndez Lapido (BSc student, 2022-2023, ULL. Also Practicum student at the IAC in 2023)
  • Mercedes Contreras Yáñez (BSc student, Univ. Murcia. Practicum student at the IAC in 2023)
  • Armin Mang (MSc student, 2023-2024, ULL)
  • Sergio Riquelme (BSc student, Univ. Murcia. Practicum student at the IAC in 2024)