Scientific and Academic Positions
05/2024 - Present: Postdoctoral researcher, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
11/2023 - 04/2024: IEEC contract (PhD fellowship of Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
11/2020 - 11/2023: FI-SDUR grant (PhD fellowship from the Generalitat de Catalunya), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
07/2019 - 09/2019: Research Collaboration grant, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
01/2019 - 06/2019: Research fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
07/2018 - 09/2018: Internship, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
10/2017 - 03/2018: Internship, ALBA synchrotron, Barcelona, Spain
07/2017 - 08/2017: Internship, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
02/2017 - 06/2017: Internship, Institute of Material Science of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
06/2016 - 07/2016: Internship, Institute of Material Science of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Education
Ph.D., Physics, 8th April 2024, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Thesis: Dynamical characterisation of the Magellanic Clouds with Gaia data and the KRATOS simulation, Advisers: Prof. Dr. Mercè Romero Gómez, Prof. Dr. Xavier Luri, Committee: Prof. Dr. G. Clementini, Prof. Dr. E. Vasiliev, and Prof. Dr. Francesca Figueras. Summa Cum Laude.
Postgraduate on Data Science and Big Data, 30th June 2020, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Master, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics, 22nd June 2019, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Thesis: An X-ray census of highly accreting black holes in SDSS quasars, Advisor: Dr. Kazushi IwasawaBachelor Degree, Physics, 30th June 2018, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Thesis: The role of the Sommerfeld enhancement in dark matter physics, Advisor: Dr. Federico Mescia
Memberships and Participation in space missions and surveys
Member of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) of the Gaia mission: Coordination Unit 9 (CU9)
Member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) collaboration
Member of the Magellanic Clouds Survey (S9, 1001MC) in 4MOST
Member of the Galaxy Group research team at the Lund University
Former member of the GaiaUB research team
Member of the Sociedad Española de Astronomia (SEA)
Member of the Red Española para la explotacion cientifica de Gaia (REG)
Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)
Mentoring
Supervised Bachelor thesis
"Unveiling the 3D structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud", Jan Struck, Universitat de Barcelona, June 2023
(co-supervised with Dr. Xavier Luri)"Machine learning classifier for the Large Magellanic Cloud using Gaia EDR3 data", Arnau Muros, Universitat de Barcelona, June 2022
(co-supervised with Dr. Xavier Luri)
Other mentoring
2022 - 2023: ICCUB PhD meetings representative University of Barcelona, Spain
2021 - 2023: ICCUB DEIC mentoring of the Master program, University of Barcelona, Spain
Teaching
2020 - 2023: Lecturer of Galactic Astronomy at “Universitat de l’Experiència”, University of Barcelona, Spain
2020 - 2023: Lecturer of Astronomy and Observational Astronomy, University of Barcelona, Spain
Outreach
2023 - 2024: Collaboration with Joana Burd, fine arts PhD student, to sonify the KRATOS simulations, merging scientific data and art
2022: Awarded in the 1st Tesimarató (Three Minute Thesis contest) of the Physics Faculty of the University of Barcelona
2020 - 2024: Active member of the outreach section of the Institute of Cosmos Science, University of Barcelona, Spain
Collaborators
Mercè Romero-Gómez, Xavier Luri, Teresa Antoja, Marcel Bernet, Chervin Laporte, Eduard Masana (ICCUB, Spain)
Laurent Chemin (Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Santi Roca-Fàbrega (Lund Observatory, Sweden)
Paul J. McMillan (University of Leicester, UK)
Paul Adamczyk (Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile)
Alfred Castro-Ginard (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands)
Danny Horta, David Nidever (Center for Computational Astrophysics, New York, USA)
Maria-Rosa Cioni (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik, Potsdam, Germany)
Publications
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