GUAIX member Cristina Cabello attended the J-PAS RIA Workshop: ‘The Universe in 56 colours: science with the first J-PAS data’ held in Teruel from 2 to 4 December, and gave a talk entitled Studying the properties of low-mass galaxies at z ∼1. How can J-PAS be useful here? This research surveys the Extended Groth Strip…
The regional government of the Comunidad de Madrid has awarded two research projects for Young Researchers to GUAIX members Dr. Bililign T. Dullo and Dr. Santi Roca-Fàbrega, both Captación de Talento fellows in the group. The amount awarded is over 90 k€ to support their research on the process that drive galaxy formation, from the…
GUAIX member Dr. Sergio Pascual and Dr. Eva Besadas visited the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Garching to attend the Instrument Control Systems Seminar for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The participation in this seminar is a further step in the effort being made by the GUAIX group to be at the head of…
ACTION is looking for new and ongoing citizen science projects related to any form of pollution in Europe and worldwide. Successful applicants will receive €20,000 to help deliver a six-month pilot with the help of the ACTION team. The funding can be spent on salaries, equipment, consumables, travel, subcontracting to other entities, and indirect expenditure…
The researchers Sara Cazzoli and Laura Hermosa have visited this week the department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics, for a scientific collaboration involving IFU data from the new MEGARA instrument with professors Africa Castillo and Armando Gil de Paz. Dr. Sara Cazzoli is researcher at the IAA (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía) and she was…
“The nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322” Bil Dullo attended the ‘SKA in Spain’ meeting at Granada this week with a talk about “The nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322”. His contribution showcased best strategies to exploit synergies from a large sample of high-resolution, multi-wavelength data, including from HST (optical and infrared) and…
Are you a researcher interested in carrying out your research in Madrid? The GUAIX Group is interested in supporting your application to the MSCA Individual Fellowships Calls. Our group can provide support in the preparation phase of the MSCA-IF grants. GUAIX coordinates the efforts and activities of UCM researchers in the following fields: Development and…
ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons visits the Faculty of Physical Sciences Xavier Barcons visited the Complutense University on Friday 5 April, invited by IPARCOS and he gave a talk, entitled ESO: Building and operating the most powerful ground-based telescopes. Barcons explained to a room full of researchers and students how is the day to day…
On January 21, the Faculty of Physics hosted the presentation day of IPARCOS (Instituto de Física de PARtículas y del COSmos), an institute that, according to its current director, Fernando Arqueros, “works in particle physics as well as astrophysics, cosmology and advanced instrumentation and applications”. The GUAIX Group is one of the five groups…
Dr. Bililign Dullo, member of the GUAIX group, in collaboration with other researchers of the group published in the prestigious journal ApJ an article about the spiral galaxy NGC 7025. Disky bulges in spiral galaxies are commonly thought to form out of disk materials (mainly) via bar-driven secular processes. They are structurally and dynamically…