5º Foro de Investigación Australia-España


5 años conectando Australia y España en la investigación académica

Conferencia de la Asociación de Investigadores Españoles en Australia-Pacífico

Le invitamos a registrar su participación en el 5oForo de Investigación Australia-Pacífico que tendrá lugar en el Centre for Mental Health Research de la ANU (Cmnberra), en nombre de la Asociación de Investigadores Españoles en Australia-Pacífico (SRAP-IEAP) y la Embajada de España en Canberra.

SRAP-IEAP promueve las relaciones entre universidades e institutos de investigación entre la zona de Australia-Pacífico y España, y proporciona el apoyo necesario y los contactos a los investigadores españoles que desarrollan su investigación en Australia-Pacífico.

Este año, el foro celebra su quinto aniversario, una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre sus retos y logros a lo largo de este tiempo, además de aportar una mirada al futuro.

Dado que las plazas son limitadas, les recomendamos reservar lo antes posible.


Angel.Lopez-Sanchez

Acerca de Angel.Lopez-Sanchez

A/Prof Ángel R. López-Sánchez is an astrophysicist and science communicator working at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University (MQ). He is a recognised expert in the study of how the gas is converted into stars in galaxies and how this affects galaxy evolution. He graduated in Theoretical Physics at the University of Granada (2000) and completed his PhD Thesis in Astrophysics at the prestigious “Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias” (IAC, Spain) and the University of La Laguna (Spain) in 2006. He moved to Australia in 2007, joining CSIRO “Astronomy and Space Science” to perform radio-interferometric observations of gas-rich galaxies at the Australian Telescope Compact Array. In 2011 he joined the Australian Astronomical Observatory and Macquarie University combining instrumentation support, research, lecturing, and outreach. He was appointed as a full-time research academic at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University in May 2023. He is the president of the association of Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific (SRAP), the vice-president of the Astronomical Association of Córdoba (AAC, Spain), representative in the Andalusian Astronomy Network (RAdA), and member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Spanish Astronomy Society (SEA), and the Australian Astronomy Society (ASA). He is a globally-recognised science communicator, with visibility in Spanish and Australian printed, broadcast, and social media. He is also a passionate amateur astronomer that uses his own equipment for capturing the beauty of the Cosmos. His stunning astronomy time-lapse videos and photos have received +1/2 million views in YouTube and have been seen in TV channels in USA, Australia and Spain, science museums worldwide, and textbooks.