Jesús Serra Foundation Visiting Researchers Programme
The IAC has been chosen by the Jesús Serra Foundation to participate in its “Visiting Researchers Programme” in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions. Each year, the programme supports a two or three months stay at the IAC for a few visiting professors of international prestige. These long visits allow, first, to deepen the scientific relationship between the host research group and the visiting researcher, and secondly, to initiate new lines of action based on the generation of new scientific interests.
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Researchers who have visited the IAC under this program are listed below.
Juan Usón
Stay at the IAC: 01/10/2015 al 12/12/2015
Research line: Cosmology and Astroparticles
Prof. Juan Usón will give a Severo Ochoa-Fundación Jesús Serra seminar at the IAC on November 3rd 2015.
Prof. Usón is Associate Scholar & Lecturer in the Physics Department at Princeton University.
Paul Cally
Stay at the IAC: 30/04/2015 to 28/06/2015 
Research line: Solar Physics
Prof. Prof. Paul S. Cally will give a Severo Ochoa-Jesús Serra Foundation seminar at the IAC.
Dr. Cally is currently full Professor of Solar Physics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), position he has held since 2003.
France Allard
Stay at the IAC: 15/01/2015 to 15/02/2015 
Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics
Prof. Allard gave a Severo Ochoa-Jesús Serra Foundation seminar at the IAC on January 29th 2015, entitled “Very Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Gas Giant Exoplanets”.
France Allard is currently Director of Research at the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon - École Normale Supérieure (CRAL-ENS, France), position she has held since 2008.
Guillermo Tenorio Tagle
Stay at the IAC: 15/10/2014 to 15/01/2015.
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Prof. Tenorio-Tagle gave a Severo Ochoa-Jesús Serra Foundation seminar at the IAC on January 22nd 2015, entitled On the origin of the absorption and emission line components in the spectra of PHL 293B.
Tenorio-Tagle is full Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE, Puebla - Mexico), a position he has held since 1998.
Tsevi Mazeh
Stay at the IAC: 19/10/2014 to 18/12/2014 
Research line: Planetary Systems
Prof. Tsevi Mazeh gave a Severo Ochoa-Jesús Serra Foundation seminar at the IAC on December 2nd 2014, entitled The exo-planet obliquity as a fingerprint of planetary formation and evolution - Surprising clue from stellar rotational photometric modulations of Kepler transiting planets.
Tsevi Mazeh is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Tel Aviv University (Israel), where he has served as researcher and lecturer since 1979.
Bruce Elmegreen
Stay at the IAC: 25/10/2014 al 16/11/2014
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Prof. Elmegreen gave a Severo Ochoa-Fundación Jesús Serra seminar at the IAC on November 12th 2014, entitled On the origin of Exponential Radial Profiles in Disk Galaxies.
Dr. Bruce Elmegreen works in the Physical Sciences Department of the Research Division of IBM (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA). He joined IBM in 1984 after holding a faculty position at Columbia University.
Debra M. Elmegreen
Stay at the IAC: 25/10/2014 to 16/11/2014
Research line: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Prof. Elmegreen gave a Severo Ochoa-Fundación Jesús Serra seminar at the IAC on November 1st 2014, entitled Transitions from Clumpy to Smooth Galaxies over Cosmic Time
Debra M. Elmegreen is Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell Chair at the Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York (U.S.A.).
