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Membership Number: | 3466 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Senior Research Scientist, Instituto de Física Fundamental (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) (Madrid)
- 2012 - present Visiting Professor, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (University of Barcelona)
- 1994 - 2012 Associate Professor, University of Barcelona
- 1992 - 94 Research Associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA, USA)
- 1992, 04-07 Postdoctoral fellowship, Institut d'Astrophysique (Paris, France)
- 1990 - 91 Graduate scholarship, European Southern Observatory (Garching, Germany)
- 1988 - 90 Graduate scholarship, University of Barcelona
Fields of Scholarship
- Cosmology
- Supernovae
- Dark energy
- Hubble constant
- Cosmic distances
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Gruber prize for Cosmology (as a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project)
- 2002 Award for excellence in scientific research (Government of Catalonia)
- 1992 Extraordinary Ph.D. prize (Univ. of Barcelona)