“The use of tunable filters on the GTC will allow us to detect very young and active galaxies”

Interview with José Antonio de Diego

This astrophysicist from the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of México (IA-UNAM) is here within the Severo Ochoa Visitors Programme. His fields of research focus on the study of active nuclei of quasars, gravitational lenses and galaxies at high redshift. At the present time he is in charge of a technology development project, and has been named Head of the Deartment of Science Communication at the IA-UNAM. During his stay at the IAC he has collaborated with the researchers Jordi Cepa Nogué and Ángel Bongiovanni in the statistical analysis of data bases of extragalactic sources. >> Read the interview