Research in Australia: Webinar and interviews with Casa Asia and Fundación Consejo España-Australia

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During the last few weeks SRAP has collaborated with Casa Asia and Fundación Consejo España Australia to promote the work of Spanish researchers in Australia-Pacific and inform about the Australian research and academic system to Spanish researchers who might be interested on developing part of their work in Australia.

This collaboration was built in 2 parts:

  1. 3 short videos about Spanish researchers in Australia-Pacific, members of SRAP, talking about their work.
  2. A webinar on 17 November 2021 about the research and academic system in Australia.

Short videos with SRAP members

  1. Daniel Montesinos, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Tropical Herbarium , cuenta su experiencia como ecólogo y da consejos a futuros investigadores.

 

2. Marian Vidal-Fernández (University of Sydney)

economista laboral especializada en educación , cuenta su experiencia y da consejos a futuros investigadores.

 

 

3. Jonathan Ferrer Mestres, postdoctoral fellow (CSIRO)

postdoctoral fellow de la Organización de Investigación Científica e Industrial del Commonwealth (CSIRO) en Australia, explica la evolución de su formación desde la robótica hasta la inteligencia artificial enfocada a la preservación de ecosistemas naturales.

 

Webinar on 17 November

Welcome:

  • Amadeo Jensana, Director de Economía y Empresa, Casa Asia.
  • Vega Yubero, Directora, Fundación Consejo España Australia
  • Joaquín Valderrama, Presidente, Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific

Round table

  • Natividad Gómez Cerezo, Postdoctoral researcher, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland.
  • Carmen Salvador Palomeque, Consultant, Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific, SRAP Vice-President
  • Sofía Samper Carro, Visitor, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, SRAP Representative in Canberra
  • Sergio León Saval, Director, Sydney Astrophotonic Instrumentation Laboratory, SRAP Honorary President

Moderator:

  • Ana Fuentes, Periodista, Ex corresponsal en Asia.
Participants in the webinar: From left to right and top to bottom: Amadeo Jensana, Vega Yubero, Joaquín Valderrama, Ana Fuentes, Natividad Gómez Cerezo, Carmen Salvador Palomeque, Sofía Samper Carro and Sergio León Saval.

Participants in the webinar: From left to right and top to bottom: Amadeo Jensana, Vega Yubero, Joaquín Valderrama, Ana Fuentes, Natividad Gómez Cerezo, Carmen Salvador Palomeque, Sofía Samper Carro and Sergio León Saval.

(The link to the webinar will be upload here when it is released).

Angel.Lopez-Sanchez

About 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.