Jesús Gallego Maestro is Full Professor (Catedrático) at Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica (FTA) of the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
Coordinator of the GUAIX research group (UCM group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation), currently holds the position of Deputy Director of the Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica.
Member of IPARCOS, the UCM Institute of Particle and Cosmos Physics.
Member of the Spanish Astronomical Society SEA, the European Astronomical Society EAS, the American Astronomical Sociey (AAS) and the International Astronomical Union IAU.
Jesús Gallego graduated in Physics in 1989 and obtained a Ph.D. in Physics in 1995 (specialty Astrophysics), obtaining the UCM Extraordinary Ph.D. Prize. After a stay as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lick Observatory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he returned to the UCM, first as an assistant lecturer and later, as a professor. In 2018 he became Full Professor (catedrático).
He has 132 articles published with referee (ADS) and an h-index of 42 (Google Scholar). Gallego has more than 200 contributions to international congresses and he has been a referee of international journals (ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, and A&A). Jesús Gallego has been the director of 10 doctoral theses and an extensive list of dissertations, research works, and TFMs.
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He is the Spanish representative on the Board of the MOSAIC instrument for the future Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). He is also UCM representative on the Board of the TARSIS instrument for the 3.5m telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory CAHA.