IAC Staff Outgoing Visits
Promoting staff exchange has been the IAC policy in the past 20 years. About 5% of the Severo Ochoa Programme funding will be spent on mobility of IAC permanent and RyC researchers, to make visits (typically of one month duration) to top-level international research institutions facilitating a sustained collaboration with other research groups and increasing the links between the IAC and foreign experts.
Carme Gallart
Dates of the visit: 02/07/2015 to 30/07/2015.
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Institution visited: Royal Observatory of Edinburgh (UK).
Dr. Gallart is collaborating with Prof. Annette Ferguson and Dr. Edouard Bernard on the study of the stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds and in M33.
Almudena Prieto Escudero
Dates of the visit: 15/01/2015 to 18/04/2015.
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Institution visited: Max-Planck Institute fuer Extreterrestriche Physik (MPE), in Garching and Munchen Universitatssternwarte (LMU), in Munchen, (Germany).
Dr. Prieto collaborates with Prof. A. Buckert, Prof. K. Dolag, Dr. M. Schartmann at MPE &LMU, and with Dr. X. Mazzalay at MPE on accretion processes in the centre of the nearest galaxies.
Jorge Casares Velázquez
Dates of the visit: 21/07/2014 to 18/08/2014.
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Institution visited: University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
Dr. Casares collaborates with Profs. R. Fender, P. Podsiadlowski and Dr. T. Muñoz-Darias on the study of accreting compact stars in interacting binaries. The results have been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) and The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).
Héctor Socas Navarro
Dates of the visit: 25/06/2014 to 30/07/2014.
Research line: Solar Physics
Institution visited: High Altitude Observatory (Boulder, EEUU).
Dr. Socas is collaborating with Dr. Rebecca Centeno, and Dr. Alfred de Wijn on the study of the long-term evolution of solar active regions as seen by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager at SDO.
Carlos Gutierrez de la Cruz
Dates of the visit: 03/03/2014 to 02/06/2014.
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Institution visited: University of Toronto and University of York (Toronto, Canada).
Dr. Gutierrez collaborated with Prof. D. S. Moon, at the Univ. Toronto, on the study of Ultra Luminous X-ray sources and with Prof. Marshall McCall, at the Univ. York, on the structure known as Local Sheet. Some results have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Arturo Manchado Torres
Dates of the visit: 03/10/2013 to 10/11/2013.
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Institution visited: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) - Ensenada (Mexico).
Dr. Manchado collaborated with Dr. Guillermo García Segura at the IA-UNAM on magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations on the formation of shells around post-AGB stars and PNe. The results have been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Jesús Falcón Barroso
Dates of the visit: 25/07/2013 to 12/09/2013.
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Institution visited: Mt Stromlo Observatory, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia).
Dr. Falcón collaborated with Dr. Ken Freeman at the Mt Stromlo Observatory on the development of an innovative technique to recover simultaneously the 2D dynamics and stellar populations to constrain scenarios for the secular evolution of galactic bulges. The results are still in preparation for publishing.
Ignacio Trujillo Cabrera
Dates of the visit: 13/10/2012 to 15/12/2012.
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Institution visited: Royal Observatory of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Dr. Trujillo collaborated with Dr. James Dunlop at the ROE in the discovery and characterization of stellar halos in distant galaxies. The results were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Garik Israelian
Dates of the visit: 27/07/2012 to 22/09/2012.
Research line: Exoplanets and Solar System
Institution visited: Byurakan Observatory (Armenia).
Dr. Israelian collaborated with Dr. Areg Mickaelian at the Byurakan Observatory in order to start a long term observational compaign to search planets around young stars and giant stars.
