Visita del arquitecto Borja Frutos Vázquez


El pasado 24 y 25 de octubre tuvimos el placer de recibir en Sídney al investigador y arquitecto español Borja Frutos Vázquez dando una charla en el Instituto Cervantes y otra en la Australian Graduate School of Urbanism en UNSW (Sídney, NSW).

Borja Frutos Vázquez trabaja actualmente en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja – CSIC, donde realiza su investigación en construcciones medioambientales, comportamientos térmico y acústico, y protección de radón.

El tema de las charlas fue «Medio Ambiente y Sostenibilidad en las Ciudades«.

Resumen: La arquitectura, como disciplina técnica de pensamiento y de desarrollo de propuestas y modelos de habitar, está estrechamente unida al concepto de medio ambiente. En la charla se trataron temas como el impacto que tiene la arquitectura (el ruido, la vibración, la calidad del aire) y el consumo de energía que supone el proceso constructivo.


Angel.Lopez-Sanchez

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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.