4/2018–present MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS (H2020), Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos of the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
12/2016-03/2016 Postdoc position María de Maeztu center of excellence by the Spanish Government, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos of the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
09/2013-09/2016 Postdoc Fellow (ESA Research Fellowship in Space Science), European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
7/2010-09/2013 Postdoctoral position (in project European Research Council under ERC-StG grant GALACTICA-24027, granted to Prof. Dr. Amina Helmi), Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
1/2010-6/2010 Research contract (in project Contribución al desarrollo científico y tecnológico de la misión Gaia), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1/2006–12/2009 Becaris Generalitat (PhD fellowship from the Generalitat de Catalunya), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
10/2005–12/2005 Becària IEEC (PhD fellowship of the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1/2005–6/2005 Beàcria Collaboració (starting research grant for bachelor students of Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Education
Ph.D., Physics, 30th April 2010, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Thesis: Moving groups as imprints of the non-axisymmetric components of the Milky Way, Advisers: Prof. Dr. Francesca Figueras, Dr. Octavio Valenzuela, Committee: Prof. Dr. L. Aguilar, Prof. Dr. S. Feltzing, and Dr. P. L. Hammersley
Master, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics, 5ft September 2007, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Thesis: Moving groups: Are they dynamical streams?, Advisers: Prof. Dr. Francesca Figueras, and Dr. David Fernández
Bachelors Degree, Physics, 21th July 2005, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Memberships & Participation in space missions and surveys
Member of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) of the Gaia mission: Coordination Unit 9 (CU9)
Member of the WEAVE Science Team in the Galactic Archaeology group; science case, and survey design –collaboration mainly with B. Famaey (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbroug, France), V. Hill (Observatoire de la Vote d’Azur), co-coordinator of Disk Kinematics group
Member of the RAVE collaboration
Member of the Gaia-University of Barcelona research team (2005–2010, 2016-present)
Member of the Sociedad Española de Astronomia
Member of the Red Española para la explotacion cientifica de Gaia (REG)
Member of the Faculty Council of the Scientific Support Office of ESA (SRE-S) in charge of the scientific research activities and exchanges among SRE-S scientists, and support to the SRE-S management such as in funding allocation (2014–2016)
Member of the Gaia Archive Preparation (GAP, affiliated member) (2011–2013)
Member of the Gaia-ESO Survey, survey design for disk stars
Participation in the Gaia Research for European Astronomy /Training (GREAT) (2009)
Member of the Gaia beta testers group (tests of the Gaia archive)
Mentoring
Supervised PhD thesis
“The Dynamical Effects of the Bar on the Galactic Thin and Thick Disks”, Giacomo Monari, University of Groningen, September 2014, (co-supervised with Dr. A. Helmi)
"Substructure in the phase space of the Galaxy with Gaia”, Pau Ramos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, ongoing (co-supervised with Dr. F. Figueras)
Supervised Master thesis
“Young Local Associations with Gaia”, Nuria Miret, Universitat de Barcelona, June 2017
“Applying the Treamaine-Weinberg method for deriving pattern speeds with Gaia”, Marta Reina, Universitat de Barcelona, July 2016, (co-supervised with Dr. F. Figueras)
Supervised Bachelor thesis
“Detection of Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies in the halo of the Milky Way with the new catalogues HSOY & GPS1”, Laura Rotger, Universitat de Barcelona, June 2017
"The velocity-metallicity correlation in simulations", Marc Grau, Universitat de Barcelona, Desembre 2017
Supervised high school projects
"Bringing Gaia data to high-school students: determination of the dark matter content in the Galaxy", Francesc Raga Batlle, Institut Gallecs, Mollet del Vallès, Gener 2018
Other mentoring
Taniya Parikh, ESA Stagiaire, June-August 2014, “Gaia performance for open clusters”, ESA
Taniya Parikh (Masters student), June-July 2015, “Gaia performance for open clusters II”, ESA
Santi Roca Fabrega (PhD student), 2013, “A novel method to bracket the corotation radius in galaxy disks: vertex deviation maps”, University of Groningen
Collaborations
Pau Ramos, Merce Romero-Gomez, Francesca Figueras, Roger Mor (ICCUB, Spain)
Amina Helmi (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands)
Santi Roca-Fabrega (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Cecilia Mateu
DPAC consortium (mainly David Katz, Ronald Drimmel, Celine Reylé, George Seabroke, Caroline Soubiran, Carine Babusiaux, Paola Di Matteo, Eloisa Poggio, Annie Robin, Dafydd Evans)
Jos de Bruijne, Timo Prusti (ESTEC, The Netherlands)
Luis Aguilar (Instituto de Astronomia de la UNAM Ensenada, Mexico)
Carlo Manara (European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany)
Octavio Valenzuela, Barbara Pichardo, Edmundo Moreno (Instituto de astronomia de la UNAM Mexico DF, Mexico)
Giacomo Monari (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam AIP, Potsdam, Germany)
Anthony Brown (Observatory of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Taniya Parikh (Univ. of Portsmouth, UK)
Sebastian Hidalgo, Antonio Aparicio (IAC, Spain)
Kazi Rygl (Instituto di Radioastronomia, Italy)
Steven Rieder (RIKEN AICS, Japan)
Lucie Jilkova, Carmen Martinez-Barbosa (Observatory of Leiden)