Staff | Username @ing.iac.es | Post | Publications | Research interests |
Richard Ashley | rashley | Staff Observer | ADS | White dwarfs and compact binary objects |
Marc Balcells [web] | director | Director ING | ADS | Galaxy evolution at low and high redshift. Galaxy transformations through interactions and mergers. Bulges of disk galaxies. |
Chris Benn [web] | crb | Head of Astronomy | ADS | Broad-absorption-line quasars, exoplanets. |
Lilian Domínguez | ldp | Observing Support Scientist | ADS | Evolution of galaxies at intermediate redshift: bulges and disks of disk galaxies, early-type galaxies. |
Cecilia Fariña | cf | Observing Support Scientist | ADS | Massive stars and massive star formation. Young stellar populations. Star-forming regions. |
Emanuel Gafton | ega | Software Engineer | ADS | Numerical relativity, high-performance computing, tidal disruptions and black hole accretion |
Florencia Jiménez | fjimenez | Observing Support Assistant and Staff Observer | ADS | Low-mass star-forming galaxies at different redshifts |
Emilie Lhomé (on leave of absence) | elhome | Optical Engineer | ADS | Optical instrumentation for astronomy, wide-field spectroscopy, nulling interferometry, exoplanets, characterization of historic instruments |
Eduardo Mantero | emantero | Observing Support Assistant and Staff Observer | ADS | Galaxy evolution, dust extinction on galaxies, novas and Solar System. |
Javier Méndez [web] | jma | Scheduler, Service and Override Manager, Astronomy Computing, PR Officer, Librarian | ADS | Planning public communication in research organisations; type-Ia SN companions; historical type-Ia SNe; type-Ia SNe and cosmology. |
Lara Monteagudo | lara | Observing Support Assistant | ADS | Star formation history in the Large Magellanic Cloud. |
Neil O'Mahony | nom | Optical Engineer | ADS | Optical turbulence, DIMMs, wavefront sensing, optical testing, adaptive optics and astronomical filters |
Yeisson Osorio | yo | Staff Observer | ADS | Stellar atmospheres structure and high resolution stellar spectroscopy |
Fiona Riddick | fiona | Observing Support Assistant | ADS | Brown dwarfs in star-forming regions. |
Ian Skillen | wji | Senior Support Astronomer | ADS | Exoplanets, distance scale. |
Jure Skvarč | jure | Software Engineer | ADS | Astronomical instrumentation and software, telescope control systems, robotic telescopes, adaptive optics, minor planets, comets. |
Lucía Suárez | lsuarez | Optical Engineer | ADS | Chemical abundances in stars with and without planets. |
Ovidiu Vaduvescu [web] | ovidiuv | Observing Support Scientist | ADS | Dwarf galaxies, near Earth asteroids, data mining and surveys, education and public outreach, astronomical observatories. |
Students | Username
@ing.iac.es | Home institution | ING supervisor | Research interests |
Freya Barwell | fbarwell | University of Sheffield, UK | | Dark matter and dark matter detection techniques, gravitational lensing. |
Ross Dobson [web] | rdobson | University College London | | Exoplanet discovery and characterization, asteroseismology of host stars, machine learning, astronomical instrumentation and software. |
Kiran Jhass | kjhass | University of Sheffield | | |
James Munday | jmunday | University of Warwick, UK | | I am a PhD student researching the most compact binary star systems in the Milky Way. My focus is towards double white dwarf binaries with orbital periods ranging from 10 hours to a mere 5 minutes. |
Judith Santos | jsantos | University of La Laguna, ES | Javier Méndez | Star Formation History of the Milky Way, galaxy formation and evolution and public outreach |
Jacobus Hendrikus Terwel | jhterwel | University of Dublin, Ireland | | Supernovae Type Ia, Ia-CSM, peculiar supernovae, Cosmology |
Kellie de Vos | kdevos | University of Nottingham, UK | | |