Nos complace anunciar el segundo de una serie de eventos anuales organizados por la asociación Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific – Investigadores Españoles en Australia-Pacífico . El tema elegido para el congreso de este año es Light (Luz) .
El objective de los Australia-Spain Research Forums es presentar a una comunidad amplia temas de investigación que son de especial interés a las sociedades españolas y australianas.
El 2nd Australia – Spain Research Forum: Light tendrá lugar el 12 y el 13 de diciembre de 2016 en la Macquarie University (North Ryde, Sydney, Australia). El programa está ya disponible aquí.
La inscripción es gratuita y se realiza siguiendo este enlace a EventBrite .
Visita la página web of the 2nd Australia – Spain Research Forum: Light para más información.
Acerca de Angel.Lopez-Sanchez Dr Ángel R. López-Sánchez is an astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Macquarie University (MQ) in Sydney (NSW, Australia). His research is focused in the analysis of star formation phenomena in galaxies of the Local Universe, especially in dwarf starbursts and spiral galaxies, using multi-wavelength (UV, optical, IR, radio) data. He presented his PhD Thesis at University of La Laguna and the Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain) in 2006. In 2007 he joined CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science (Sydney) with a postdoctoral position. He then joined the AAO (formerly the Australian Astronomical Observatory) and MQ in 2011. In July 2018 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer at AAO-MQ.
He has been providing instrument and observing support at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT, Siding Spring Observatory, NSW) since 2011, being the instrument scientist of several instruments: the multi-fiber spectrograph 2dF+AAOmega and the near-infrared imager and spectrograph IRIS2. He also has large experience with integral-field spectroscopy (IFS), being a very active member of the SAMI collaboration at the AAT and part of the HECTOR Science Team. He currently is the Instrument Scientist of KOALA+AAOmega at the AAT, and leads the international astronomy survey "HI KOALA IFS Dwarf and irregular galaxy Survey" (Hi-KIDS), that is getting unique, high-quality IFS data of a sample of 100 nearby dwarf and irregular galaxies for which 21cm H I interferometric data is available
He has large experience teaching undergraduate and PhD students and giving lectures and classes about Astronomy. Dr. López-Sánchez is passionate science communicator who continuously gives talks and public lectures, writes popular science articles and organizes science communication events and stargazing activities. He is very active in social media, his Twitter feed is @El_Lobo_Rayado.