Date and place of birth: 19th September 1973 at Bilbao, Spain
Nacionality: Spanish
Current position: Profesor titular (Assistant professor), Applied Physics Department, Engeneering School, Universidad del País Vasco.
Education:
- PhD in Astrophysics, Universidad del País Vasco, November 2000.
Dissertation title: Dynamics of the large-scale storms in the atmospheres of Jupiter
and Saturn.
Dissertation director: Agustín Sánchez-Lavega.
Awarded with Sobresaliente Cum Laude por unanimidad.
- Master Thesis titled: The renormalization group and the Abraham-Lorentz equation ,
Universidad del País Vasco, September 1996.
Masther thesis director: Iñigo Luis Eguskiza.
- Degree in Physics by the Universidad del País Vasco, July 1996
(Speciality in solid state physics).
Computer Skills:
- Programming: Fortran77, IDL, Matlab
- Use of standard mathematic packages: Mathematica, Matlab.
- Operative Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris
- Large experience in the use and design of numerical methods
Languages:
- Fluent in Spanish (native language), English, and French.
Scholarships and fellowships obtained:
- Scholarship from Universidad del País Vasco January 1996-September1996.
- Pre-doctoral fellowship from Gobierno Vasco January 1997-September 2000.
Developed at Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
- Post-doctoral fellowship from Gobierno Vasco January 2001-September 2002.
Developed at Laboratorie Cassini, Observatorie de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
- Post-doctoral Poincaré fellowhip from the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, October 2002-December 2002.
- Post-doctoral reincorporation fellowship from Gobierno Vasco January 2003-September 2005.
- Teaching assistant at the University of the Basque Country (General Physics for Engeneers) November-December 2005.
- Ramón y Cajal Research contract from the Spanish Ministery of Science (MEC), January 2006-December 20009.
- Assistant professor (internship), Engeneering School, University of the Basque Country, January 2010-February 2011.
Research interests:
- Meteorology of the atmospheres of the giant planets, storm dynamics,
extrasolar giant planets and their atmospheric structure.
- Dynamics of the middle atmosphere of Venus.
- Protoplanetary disks and early solar system evolution. Planetesimal formation.
Professional Societies:
- American Astronomical Society AAS, 1998
- Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, DPS, 1998-
- Sociedad Española de Astronomía, SEA, 1998-