List of Severo Ochoa Visitors
Enhancing existing networks of international research collaborations between the IAC staff and renowned researchers of other leading research institutions is one of the main goals of the Severo Ochoa mobility program. We are offering a SO Senior Visitor Programme at IAC for group leaders and senior staff from centers of major international relevance to visit the IAC from 1 to 12 months. Here you can find a list of the researchers who joined this programme.
Juan Ruiz Alzola
Stay at the IAC: 01/09/2015 to 30/11/2015
Prof. Juan Ruiz Alzola will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at IAC on 29 November 2015, entitled Can we leverage astrophysical technology in Medical Applications?
He is Associate Professor in Signal Theory and Communications at the University of las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain.
Evan Skillman
Stay at the IAC: 21/09/2015 to 16/10/2015
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Prof. Evan Skillman is giving a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on October 1 2015 entitled "Dwarf Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe".
He is currently director of the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Minnesota.
Maria Lugaro
Stay at the IAC: 14/07/2015 to 14/08/2015
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Dr. Lugaro is giving a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on July 30th 2015, entitled “The last asymptotic giant branch star”.
She is currently a Momentum project leader of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Konkoly Observatory in Budapest (Hungary), and holds an adjunt position at the Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA) at Monash University in Melbourne (Australia).
Sergio Colafrancesco
Stay at the IAC: 26/06/2015 to 11/07/2015.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Currently Prof. Colafrancesco is Full Professor in radio astronomy and DST/NRF SKA Research Chair in the Wits School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg – South Africa).
Almudena Alonso Herrero
Stay at the IAC: 15/06/2015 to 12/07/2015
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Alonso Herrero gave a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on June 17th 2015, entitled Understanding the obscuring torus and the nuclear star formation of AGN using GTC/CanariCam observations.
Currently Dr. Alonso-Herrero is a National Research Council staff scientist at Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA) in Santander.
Santi Cassisi
Stay at the IAC: 18/05/2015 to 27/06/2015
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Currently Dr. Cassisi is a researcher ("Primo Ricercatore") at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Osservatorio Astronomico di Terano.
Ortwin Gerhard
Stay at the IAC: 15/04/2015 to 28/04/2015.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Ortwin Gerhard is Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching, Germany)
Fernando Atrio Barandela
Stay at the IAC: 04/03/2015 to 29/03/2015.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Dr. Atrio will give a Seminar at the IAC on 2015 March 19th entitled Probing the Dark Flow signal in WMAP 9 yr and PLANCK cosmic microwave background maps.
Currently Dr. Atrio is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universitity of Salamanca (Spain).
Guillermo Tenorio Tagle
Stay at the IAC: 15/01/2015 to 15/04/2015.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Tenorio-Tagle is full Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica (INAOE, Puebla - Mexico).
Klaus Galsgaard
Stay at the IAC: 23/11/2014 to 21/12/2014.
Research line: Solar Physics
Dr. Galsgaard will give a Seminar at the IAC on December 4th 2014 entitled Data driven modelling of outflow from active regions.
Dr. Klaus Galsgaard is an Associated professor at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
Stephane Courteau
Stay at the IAC: 17/11/2014 to 16/12/2014
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Prof. Stéphane Courteau will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on November 25th 2014, entitled Puzzles in the Scaling Relations of Spiral Galaxies.
Stéphane Courteau is a Full Professor and Graduate Chair in the Dept of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen's University (in Kingston, Ontario, Canada).
Alberto Rodríguez Ardila
Stay at the IAC: 11/11/2014 to 10/12/2014
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Dr. Rodríguez Ardila will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on December 9th 2014, entitled FeII emission in active galactic nuclei: results from NIR Spectroscopy.
Currently Dr. Rodríguez Ardila is researcher at the Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (Itajubá, Brazil) and professor at the Graduate Program in Astronomy at the Universidade Federal de Itajubá.
Gustavo Bruzual Alfonzo
Stay at the IAC: 10/11/2014 to 28/02/2015
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Dr. Bruzual will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on December 18th 2014, entitled Bridging Gaps in Stellar Population Synthesis.
Currently Dr. Bruzual is Investigador Titular at the Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (CryA) in the Morelia Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and professor at the UNAM Graduate Program in Astrophysics.
Alfred De Wijn
Stay at the IAC: 18/10/2014 to 15/11/2014
Research line: Solar Pyhsics
Dr. De Wijn gave a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on October 28th 2014, entitled The COSMO Chromosphere and Prominence Magnetometer.
Currently Dr. De Wijn is a Project Scientist II at the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder (Colorado, USA).
Adam Burgasser
Stay at the IAC: 15/09/2014 to 13/12/2014
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Prof. Burgasser will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on October 2nd 2014, entitled A Spectral Library for Characterizing the Coldest Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets.
Currently Dr. Burgasser is Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Physics of the University of California San Diego (U.S.A.).
Ortwin Gerhard
Stay at the IAC: 15/09/2014 to 25/09/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Prof. Gerhard will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on September 23th 2014, entitled The New Milky Way Bar and Peanut Bulge.
Dr. Ortwin Gerhard is Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching, Germany)
Georges Meynet
Stay at the IAC: 04/07/2014 to 01/08/2014
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Prof. Meynet gave a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on July 10th 2014, entitled Massive star evolution along the cosmic history: from first stars to the birth of the Solar System.
Currently Dr. Meynet is full professor at the Astronomy Department (Geneva Observatory) of the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
Enrique Pérez Montero
Stay at the IAC: 01/07/2014 to 31/07/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Pérez Montero will give a Severo Ochoa Seminar the IAC, on July 3rd 2014 entitled Deriving model-based chemical abundances in ionized gaseos nebulae.
Dr. Enrique Pérez-Montero is tenure scientist in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC in Granada (Spain).
Ignacio Ferreras
Stay at the IAC: 01/07/2014 to 28/07/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Ferreras is a Reader in Astrophysics at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London.
Lucio Piccirillo.
Stay at the IAC: 26/05/2014 to 20/06/2014.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Dr. Piccirillo gave a Severo Ochoa Seminar at the IAC on 2014 June 12th entitled
How to beat Heisenbergs uncertainty principle.
Dr. Lucio Piccirillo is currently both, professor of Radioastronomy Technology at the School of Physics and Astronomy and member of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, at the University of Manchester (U.K.).
Adam Bolton
Stay at the IAC: 04/05/2014 to 17/5/2014 and 15/06/2014 to 05/07/2014
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Dr. Bolton will give a Severo Ochoa seminar at the IAC on July 1st 2014, entitled The Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Galaxy Demographics.
Adam Bolton is a member of the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City (U.S.A.).
Pablo G. Pérez González
Stay at the IAC: 24/04/2014 to 17/05/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Pérez González will give a Severo Ochoa Seminar at the IAC entitled Reconstructing the formation of massive galaxies from their SHARDS on 2014 May 15th.
Dr. P. G. Pérez González is currently full professor at the Astrophysics Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Mª Dolores Rodríguez Frías
Stay at the IAC: 03/02/2014 to 30/06/2014.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Dr. Rodríguez Frías gave a Severo Ochoa Seminar at the IAC on June 19th 2014 entitled The JEM-EUSO Space Mission for the Extreme Universe: Frontier Astroparticle Physics @ ZeV energy range from Space.
Dr. M. D. Rodriguez Frias is currently Faculty at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain).
Barry Madore
Stay at the IAC: 02/02/2014 to 22/2/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Madore gave two seminars at the IAC, on 2014 February 13th and 18th, entitled respectively The Hubble Constant: Relieving the Tension and Cognitive Astrophysics: A View from Nowhere.
Dr. Madore works as Senior Research Associate at the Carnegie Observatories (Carnegie Institution for Science).
Elena Pancino
Stay at the IAC from 01/02/2014 to 01/03/2014
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Dr. Pancino gave a seminar at the IAC on 2014 February 6th: The Gaia mission
Currently Dr. Pancino is a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna.
Nataliia Shchukina
Stay at the IAC: 20/01/2014 to 28/03/2015.
Research line: Solar Physics
Dr. Schukina will give a Seminar at the IAC on 2015 February 5th, entitled Solar composition as a reference for stars.
Dr. Shchukina has developed her career as a researcher at the Main Astronomical Observatory (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Currently she is the Head of the Solar Physics Department at MAO and Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine.
Peter B. Stetson
Stay at the IAC: 15/01/2014 to 23/2/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Dr. Stetson is Principal Reseach Officer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada and adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada.
Kameswara Rao Neelamraju
Stay at the IAC: 19/01/2014 to 04/04/2014.
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Dr. Rao gave a Seminar at the IAC on 2014 April 1st entitled R Coronae Borealis stars and their dust.
Currently Dr. Rao is senior professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore (India).
Fernando Atrio Barandela
Stay at the IAC: 09/01/2014 to 06/03/2014.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Dr. Atrio gave a Seminar at the IAC on 2014 February 27th entitled Searching for Missing Baryons with WMAP and PLANCK.
Currently Dr. Atrio is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universitity of Salamanca (Spain).
Manuela Zoccali
Stay at the IAC: 04/01/2014 to 12/2/2014.
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Dr. Zoccali gave a Seminar at the IAC on 2014 January 7th entitled The Milky Way Bulge.
Dr. Zoccali is a Profesor at the Instituto de Astronomia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Leticia Carigi
Stay at the IAC: 30/11/2013 to 04/01/2014.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Currently Dr. Carigi is a full professor at the Institute of Astronomy (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico). In 2010 she got the UNAM Award "Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz".
Dr. Cariggi gave a Seminar at the IAC on 2013 December 12th entitled M33 as a galaxy example that connects the evolution of big and dwarf galaxies in the Local Group.
Eduardo Martín Guerrero
Stay at the IAC: 03/12/2013 to 29/01/2014.
Research line: Exoplanets and Solar System
Currently Dr. Martín is CSIC Research Professor at the Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC) in Spain and Visiting Research Professor at the University of Florida (U.S.A.)
Guillermo Tenorio Tagle
Stay at the IAC: 15/11/2013 to 15/12/2013.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Prof. Tenorio-Tagle presented at IAC his latest results on the hydrodynamics of the matter reinserted within massive and compact super stellar clusters in a Severo Ochoa seminar on November 28th 2013 entitled "Dusty supernovae running the thermodynamics of the matter reinserted by young stellar clusters"
Dr. Tenorio-Tagle is a full Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica (INAOE, Puebla - Mexico).
Santi Cassisi
Stay at the IAC: 04/11/2013 to 14/12/2013
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Currently Dr. Cassisi is a researcher ("Primo Ricercatore") at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Osservatorio Astronomico di Terano.
Lucio Piccirillo
Stay at the IAC: 08/07/2013 to 20/09/2013.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Dr. Lucio Piccirillo is currently both, professor of Radioastronomy Technology at the School of Physics and Astronomy and member of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, at the University of Manchester (U.K.).
Peter R. McCullough
Stay at the IAC: 27/05/2013 to 29/06/2013.
Research line: Exoplanets and Solar System
Prof. Peter R. McCullough currently works at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). He is the founder of the XO Project and discoverer of extrasolar transiting planets, such as XO-1b.
Yakiv Pavlenko
Stay at the IAC: 05/05/2013 to 05/06/2013.
Research line: Exoplanets and Solar System
Dr. Pavlenko gave a Seminar at the IAC on 2013 May 16th entitled Molecular Astrophysics.
Dr. has developed his career as a researcher at the Main Astronomical Observatory (MAO) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Currently he is the Chief Research Fellow of the MAO and has the official status of the Visiting Research Fellow in the University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom).
Pieter C. van der Kruit
Stay at the IAC: 23/03/2013 to 20/04/2013.
Research line: Galactic Formation and Evolution
Prof. dr P.C. van der Kruit is currently the Jacobus C. Kapteyn Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Fernando Atrio
Stay at the IAC: 19/10/2012 to 20/11/2012.
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Currently Dr. Atrio is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Universitity of Salamanca (Spain).
