SRAP joins La Cámara, the Spanish-Australian Chamber of Commerce

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After several years of very productive and fruitful collaborations, today, 22nd October 2025, SRAP joins La Cámara, the Spanish-Australian Chamber of Commerce, as business member.

ScreenshotSRAP is the first association within RAICEX (the network of associations of Spanish Researchers and Scientists working abroad) that achieve this mark, as it aligns completely with our Pilars and Mission: strengthen collaborations in research between academy and industry.

We are already discussing events and new collaborations for 2026. Stay tuned for news and new opportunities!

We will make the public announcement of this new alliance tomorrow, during the 11th Australia-Spain Research Forum. For that, we will also share the acknowledgment and congratulations video that Inmaculada Riera, General Director of the Spain Chamber of Commerce and a huge supporter of the SRAP-La Cámara collaboration, has provided.

 

SRAP wants to express its gratitude to Rod Noel, General Manager of La Camara, and Sylvia Fernández, President of La Cámara, for making this possible.

We also want to thank the companies who have supported us since the very beginning: Navantia Australia, Indra Australia, Ferrovial Australia, Typsa Asia-Pacific, and Consystex. We are looking forward strengthening our collaborations and projects with them, as well as we will be very pleased to open new research collaborations with other industry partners.

Do not hesitate to contact the SRAP Board if you want to participate in these initiatives or if you want to know more.

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.