Entrevista a Ángel López-Sánchez en Spanish Sunday 4EB


Nuestro compañero, el astrofísico y divulgador científico Ángel López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University), ha sido entrevistado hoy en el programa Spanish Sunday 4EB por Álvaro Sánchez y Raquel Sánchez.

En esta entrevista, que tiene casi una hora de duración, Ángel describe su trayectoria profesional y su trabajo actual. También responde a algunas preguntas curiosas de astronomía, incluyendo a preguntas sobre la exploración de Marte.

El fichero MP3 con la entrevista está disponible en este enlace (140 Mb).

Ángel López-Sánchez (AAO-MQ) con el robot 2dF del Telescopio Anglo-Australiano. Crédito: Á.R. L.-S.


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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.