Bio
Present Position: Senior Staff Astronomer
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2021-23 Ascription to the IAA 1999-21 Senior Staff Astronomer, IAC 1994-99 GTC 10m Project Scientist, Tenerife, Spain 1991-94 Head, Research Division, IAC, Tenerife, Spain 1989-91 Research Staff Astronomer, IAC, Tenerife, Spain 1987-89 Assoc. Professor (Tenured), U. Complutense, Madrid, Spain 1985-87 Scientific Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany 1983-85 Fullbright Scholar, U. of California San Diego, USA 1983-84 Physics Instructor, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, USA 1979-83 Research Assistant, U. of California San Diego, USA 1977-79 del Amo Foundation Fellow, U. of California San Diego, USA 1976-77 Teaching Assistant, U. Complutense, Madrid, Spain RESEARCH ACTIVITIES More than 150 research papers and invited lectures in Astrophysics Main areas of interest: Active Galaxies, Star-formation in galaxies, Instrumentation, The high-z Universe PI of a Consolider-Ingenio grant “First Science with the GTC” (5.5M€, MICINN, Spain) Co-Investigator of ISOPHOT, a space instrument flown by the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). Editor, Instrumentation for Large Telescopes, 1997 Cambridge Univ. PressTitle of Talk
“ IAU. The IUA is more than the eye sees”
Abstract
"how the IAU works, and how the IAU is organized as well as its activities”