Vídeo «Somos RAICEX #LaUnionHaceLaCiencia»


A principios de julio se ha hecho pública la nueva web de RAICEX, la entidad que engloba a las 18 asociaciones de científicos españoles en el extranjero. El objetivo global de RAICEX es generar una voz única que, respetando la independencia de cada asociación, englobe en un foro común a los científicos e investigadores españoles en el exterior.

También se ha publicado un vídeo de casi 5 minutos donde varios representantes de varias asociaciones de RAICEX de todos los continentes dan su punto de vista sobre lo que significa ser parte de RAICEX, bajo el lema «Somos RAICEX #LaUnionHaceLaCiencia».

Entre estos representantes está nuestro socio, el astrofísico y divulgador científico Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University), quien participó grabando un vídeo desde uno de sus lugares de trabajo, el Telescopio Anglo-Australiano. También se incluyen algunas escenas de sus timelapses astronómicos.


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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.