Primer «Research Bites» en Canberra

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El 17 de Marzo del 2016 la delegación en ACT de la Asociación de Investigadores Españoles en Australia-Pacífico (SRAP-IEAP) organizó el primer Research Bites en Canberra. El evento tuvo lugar en el Centre for European Studies (ANU, Australian National University) y estuvo organizado por Marina Trigueros (Cariboo Design) y Mar Racionero (Research School of Economics-ANU), ambas miembros de la SRAP-IEAP.

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Mas de 20 científicos españoles se reunieron para hablar sobre sus investigaciones. Hubo 6 fantásticas charlas. La tarde fue muy interesante e interactiva. Desde plantas a ranas pasando por super ordenadores, los siguientes tópicos fueron discutidos:

  1. César Espada: Deputy Head of Mission (Embassy of Spain in Canberra). Felicitó a la SRAP-IEAP y explicó el evento de la Embajada española que la misma noche condecoró a Pablo Fernández Peñas con la Medalla al Orden Civil.
  2. Sergio León-Naval: Senior Lecturer (School of Physics-University of Sydney). Introducción sobre la SRAP-IEAP.
  3. Hugo Alonso Cantabrana: Postdoctoral Fellow (ANU-Research School of Biology- ARC Centre of Excellence in Translational Photosynthesis). On the way to a C4 supercharged rice. The C4 rice Project.
  4. Elena Martín Ávila: Postdoctoral Fellow (ANU-Research School of Biology- ARC Centre of Excellence in Translational Photosynthesis). Rubisco and its main role in CO2 photosynthetic assimilation.
  5. Pablo Rozas Larraondo: High Performance data analyst at National Computational Infrastructure. Providing Australian researchers with high-end computing services.
  6. Marta Vidal García: PhD candidate (ANU-Research School of Biology- Evolutionary biology & Ecology of reptiles and amphibians). Morphological evolution in Australian frogs.

 

1st Research Bites Canberra

Primer «Research Bites» de la SRAP-IEAP en Canberra, Australia. Crédito: Ángel R. López-Sánchez

Desgraciadamente no hubo tiempo suficiente para que todo el mundo pudiera dar una charla sobre su trabajo, sin embargo no hay que preocuparse ya que se van a organizar más Research Bites.

Enhorabuena a todos los participantes del primer Research Bites de la asociación SRAP-IEAP en Canberra!

El evento terminó corriendo hacia la ceremonia de entrega de la Medalla al Orden Civil a Pablo Fernández Peñas en la residencia del embajador de España.

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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.