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Scientific Background

I started my research career at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC, Canary Islands, Spain), where I obtained a Master's degree in Astrophysics under the supervision of Juan Betancort, with a Master's thesis framed within the field of theoretical cosmology.

 

Subsequently, I received a Ph.D. from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA), where I worked under the supervision of Francisco Prada. My thesis,  entitled Galaxy Evolution with Large-Scale Galaxy Redshift Surveys, is a compendium of different works within the field of galaxy evolution. During my Ph.D., I enjoyed research visits of several months to UC Berkeley, Stanford and LBNL (Berkeley). After defending my thesis, I accepted a 1-year post-doctoral contract at the IAA, which was devoted to the BOSS survey. In August 2012, I moved to Utah, after accepting an offer from Adam Bolton.

 

Check out my CV down there for more information.

The Utah SDSS group standing in front of the SDSS Telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New MExico (USA). From left to right: Adam Bolton, Vivek Mariapan, Kyle Dawson, Julian Bautista, myself and Tim Hutchinson.

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Galaxy evolution with massive cosmological surveys

 

1998 - 2004

University of La Laguna - IAC (Spain)

BSc in Physics and Astrophysics

Stellar Population Synthesis for BOSS galaxies

Halo-galaxy connection in massive cosmological surveys

Statistical methods applied to future cosmological surveys 

2004 - 2006

Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC, Spain)

Master in Astrophysics 

2006 - 2011

Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia (IAA, Spain)

Ph.D. in Astrophysics

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