Anuncio del «2nd Australia – Spain Research Forum: Light»


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.

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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.