Ricardo Amorín
Astrophysicist
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) Glorieta de la Astronomía S/N, Granada E-18008, Spain H+34-655-940706 TSkype: ricamorin B[email protected] http://www.iaa.es/~amorin
CURRICULUM VITÆ, December 2012
Personal Data
Place of Birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Citizenship Dual (Argentine and Spanish)
Languages Spanish (mother tongue), English (written, read and spoken)
Current Position
October 2008 -Present
Consolider-GTC Postoctoral Fellowship. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC). Granada, Spain
Education
October 2008 Ph.D. Physics, Sobresaliente, Summa Cum Laude, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Universidad de La Laguna (ULL). La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain.
Dissertation Topic: “The Host in Blue Compact Galaxies” Advisors: Dr. Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón & Dr. J. Alfonso L. Aguerri
July 2005 Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (M.Sc.), Astrophysics.,A (9/10), Instituto de As-trofísica de Canarias (IAC), Universidad de La Laguna (ULL). Canary Islands, Spain.
Dissertation Topic: “2D Modelling of the Underlying Stellar Host in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies”. Advisor: Dr. Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón
October 2003 Licenciado (B.Sc.), Astronomy., With Honors,(GPA 8.55/10), Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad de La Plata (UNLP). La Plata, Argentina.
Dissertation Topic: “Studying the Radio Continuum Emission of Two HIIRegions and its Stellar Content”. Advisors: Dr. Cristina Cappa & Prof. Virpi Niemela
Honors & Awards
October 2008 Consolider-GTC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain.
October 2003 IAC Doctoral Fellowship,Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain.
Advisor: Dr. Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón (IAC)
Fall 2003 J. V. González Prize, (Highest distinction awarded to University students by La Plata City Council, Buenos Aires-Argentina.).
Summer 2003 Fellowship of the Argentine Astronomy Society for outstanding undergradu-ate students, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad de La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Advisor: Prof. V. S. Niemela (UNLP)
2000-2001 Introductory Research Grant for undergraduate students (Beca de Capac-itación Laboral), Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad de La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1999-2000 Introductory Research Grant for undergraduate students (Beca de Capac-itación Laboral), Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad de La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Advisor: Lic. R. Perdomo (UNLP)
Main Research Interests
. Galaxy evolution — Dwarf galaxies — Starbursts at low and high redshift — Structural, dynamical and chemical properties of metal-poor star-forming galax-ies—Interstellar medium—Large multiwavelength surveys
Reseach Grants Awarded (as co-I)
•Consolider-Ingenio GTC “First Science with the GTC”, PI: J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa. Founded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (CSD2006-00070) (e5,5 M ; 2006-2012)
•Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía:“Star Formation History and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments” (FQM-7058 PI). PI: Dr. J. Iglesias-Páramo (IAA-CSIC, Spain). Founded by the Andalusian regional goverment (e265,193 ; 2012-2015).
•ESTALLIDOS Coordinated Project “Estallidos y su Huella en la Evolución Cósmica de las Galaxias” (AYA2010-21887-C04-01), PI: Prof. J. M. Vílchez IAA-CSIC, Spain. Plan Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica. Co-founded by the Span-ish Ministry of Education and Culture and European Development Founds (FEDER) (e 242,811 ; 2011-2013)
•Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía:“Galaxias y Cosmología”(TIC 114/2010). PI: Dr. J. Masegosa (IAA-CSIC, Spain). Founded by the Andalusian regional goverment (e28,604 ; 2010-2012).
•ESTALLIDOS Coordinated Project “Starbursts in Galaxies II” ( PNAYA2007-67965-C03). PI: Dr. Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón. Plan Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica. Founded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (e326,337 ; 2008-2010) •ESTALLIDOS Coordinated Project “Starbursts in Galaxies I”(
PNAYA2004-08260-C03). PI: Dr. Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón. Plan Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica. Founded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (e275,000 ; 2005- 2007) •Acciones Integradas Hispano-Alemanas (IAC, Spain-AIP, Germany) “The Star
Forming Galaxy Population in the Local Universe and Beyond”(HA2006-0032). PI: N. Caon. Founded by Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (e 11,300 ; 2006-2007)
Research Projects Membership
•Consolider-Ingenio GTC: Coordinated international project aimed at carrying out the first science with the GTC, PI: J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa (IAC, Spain).(http://www. iac.es/consolider-ingenio-gtc/)
•ESTALLIDOS: Coordinated international project focused on the theoretical and obser-vational study of starbursts, and their impact on the galaxies hosting them. PIs: J. M. Vílchez (IAA-CSIC, Spain), Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón (IAC, Spain), M. Mollá (CIEMAT, Spain). (http://estallidos.iac.es/estallidos/)
•EMIR (GTC) Associate Science Team (EAST): Composed by different groups in-volved in the scientific explotation of EMIR Guarateed Time, PI: F. Garzón (IAC, Spain) •AVOCADO: An international collaboration aimed at establishing firm conclusions on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. PI: R. Sánchez-Janssen (ESO, Chile). Co-Is include P. Papaderos (CAUP), M. Huertas-Company (Paris), M. Mollá (Madrid) and others
•PORTO. Small international collaboration aimed at studying the formation history of extremely metal-deficient star-forming galaxies. PI: J. Sánchez Almeida (IAC, Spain). Co-Is include Bruce and Debra Elmegreen (USA), P. Papaderos and Filho (Porto), Y.
Committee Activities
•Member of the “Gran Telescopio Canarias Users Committee (GTC-GUC)” (2010)
Organization of Scientific Meetings
•LOC in “Metals in 3D: New insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy”. Granada, Spain. April 2012
•SOC/LOC in “IX Workshop Estallidos”. Granada, Spain. April 2012 •SOC in "First AVOCADO Workshop”. Paris, June 2011
•SOC/LOC in “VIII Workshop Estallidos”. Salobreña, Spain. 2010
•SOC/LOC in “First Miniworkshop Estallidos with Integral Field Units”. IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain. 2009
Conferences, Workshops & Schools Attendance
October 2012 V Consolider-GTC Meeting, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (Talk).
June 2012 Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, USA (Talk).
April 2012 Metals in 3D: New insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy, Granada, Spain (LOC).
November 2011 IV Science with the GTC Meeting, La Palma, Spain (Talk).
September 2010 JENAM 2010 Symposium Dwarf Galaxies: Keys to Galaxy Formation and Evo-lution, Lisbon, Portugal (Talk).
July 2010 Guillermo Haro Workshop for Advanced Astrophysical Reasearch: “Compact super star clusters, birth, evolution, and feedback”, INAOE Tonanzintla, México (Invited Talk).
June 2010 “A Universe of Dwarf Galaxies”, CRAL-IPNL Lyon, France (Poster).
February 2009 II Workshop of the RIA about the ALMA Project, IAA-CSIC Granada, Spain (Talk).
May 2008 The NEON 3D Spectra School, AIP, Potsdam, Germany.
October 2007 “Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks”, Vatican Observatory, Rome, Italy (Poster).
April 2007 “Pathways through an Eclectic Universe”, Playa La Arena, Tenerife, Spain (Poster).
August 2006 IAU XXVIth General Assembly: Symposia 235 and 237, Prague, Chzech Republic (Poster).
December 2005 XI Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (LARIM), Pucón, Chile (Poster).
December 2005 Latin American Astronomy Summer School, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile (Poster).
September 2005 V IRAM Observing School 2005, Pradollano-Granada, Spain (Poster).
November 2004 IV IRAM Millimiter Interferometric School 2004, IRAM Grenoble, France (Poster).
November 2003 XV Canary Island Winter School of AstrophysicsPayload and Mission Definition in Space Sciences”, Puerto de La Cruz, Spain.
From 2003 to 2012
Seven different Workshops of the Coordinated Project: Starburst in Galaxies,
Tenerife (IAC), Madrid (CIEMAT,CAB), and Granada (IAA-CSIC), Spain, (Talks, LOC).
Invited Talks - Seminars - Colloquia
August 2012 “Rapidly assembling star-forming galaxies at late cosmic epochs” , IRAP-CNRS, Toulouse, France.
May 2011 “The Extreme Properties of the Green Pea Galaxies: New Hints from GTC Observations”, CAUP-UP, Porto, Portugal.
July 2010 “Green Pea Galaxies”, in Guillermo Haro Workshop for Advanced Astrophysical Reasearch: “Compact super star clusters, birth, evolution, and feedback”, INAOE Tonanz-intla, México.
January 2009 “The Host of Blue Compact Galaxies”, in VI Workshop of the Estallidos Collaboration: “Formación de Investigadores e impacto académico”, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Selected Media Coverage
December 2010 CONSOLIDER-GTCLa galaxia que se confundió con un guisante”,http://www.iac. es/consolider-ingenio-gtc/.
September 2010 JENAM 2010,Astronomers unveil the mysteries of "Green Pea" galaxies at JENAM con-ference in a victory for citizen science,http://www.jenam2010.org.
Observational Experience and Approved Telescope Proposals
•21cm spectroscopy. Effelsberg 100-m telescope, Germany. PI: M. Filho. 60 Hrs (2012) •Optical 2D spectroscopy VIMOS/VLT. PI: A. Monreal-Ibero. 23 hr (P89, 2012) •Optical 2D spectroscopy GMOS/GEMINI. PI: G. Hägele. 6 Hrs (2012)•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 10.4-m GTC/OSIRIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: J. Sanchez Almeida, 4 hrs. (2012)
•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 4-m WHT/ISIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI:R. Amorín. Four nights (March 2012)
•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 4-m WHT/ISIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI:R. Amorín. Two nights (July 2011)
•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 10.4-m GTC/OSIRIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: J. Vilchez, 10 hrs. (2011)
•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 10.4-m GTC/OSIRIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: R. Amorín. 8 hrs. (2010-2011)
•Optical Imaging and Long Slit Spectroscopy. 10.4-m GTC/OSIRIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI:R. Amorín. 9 hrs. (2010)
•Radio 21 cm emission line imaging. Giant Metrowave Radio Telescope (GMRT), Pune, India. PI: R. Sánchez-Janssen 10 hrs. (May 2010)
•NIR Narrow Band Imaging. 3.5-m TNG/NICS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: P. Papaderos. Three nights (December 2009)
•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 3.5-m TNG/DOLORES, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: R. Romano. Three nights (October 2009)
•Millimiter (CO) Spectroscopy. 30-m Telescope IRAM. Pradollano-Granada, Spain. PI: R. Amorín. 60 hours (2006)
•NIR Imaging. 2.4-m NOT/ALFOSC, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: N. Caon. Three nights (2004)
•Optical Long Slit Spectroscopy. 4-m WHT/ISIS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: N. Caon. Two nights (2005)
•NIR Narrow and Broad Line Imaging. 3.5 TNG/NICS, ORM La Palma, Spain. PI: R. Amorín. Two nights (2004)
•Optical CCD Imaging/Photometry and Low Resolution Long Slit Spectroscopy. CASLEO 2.4-m Telescope, El Leoncito-San Juan, Argentina (Co-observer). PI: V. S. Niemela. 5 nights (2002)
•Optical CCD Imaging. 0.80-m Telescope, La Plata Observatory, Argentina (Co-Observer). PI: E. F. Lajús. More than 15 nights (2002-2003)
•Global Positioning Satelite (GPS) Campaign Survey, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Ar-gentina. PI: R. Perdomo & Dr. Daniel Del Cogliano. More than 10 days (1999-2001).
Computer Skills - Miscellaneous
Codes GALFIT, FOCAS, STARLIGHT, VO Tools
Miscellaneous Astronomical Internet Databases and Public Surveys (e.g. SDSS, COSMOS, HST, ESO)
Teaching Experience
•Teaching Assistant, “General Astronomy”. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Ge-ofísicas (UNLP), Argentina. 2002-2003
•Teaching Assistant, “Admission Course of the Astronomy Degree”. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas (UNLP), Argentina. 2003
Academic Service
•Student Representative to the Government of the National University of La Plata, Ar-gentina. 2000
•Student Representative to the Faculty of Astronomy and Geophysics (UNLP), Argentina. 2001
Referees / Professional References
Head of Team Prof. Jose Manuel Vílchez,Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía, S/N, E18088 - Granada, Spain, [email protected].
+34-958-230-569
Collaborator PD Dr. Polychronis Papaderos,Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP-UP), Rua das Estrelas 4150-762 Porto, Portugal, [email protected].
+351-226-089-839
PhD Advisor Dr. Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón,Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Vía Láctea S/N, E-38200, La Laguna, Spain, [email protected].
+34-922-605-231
Collaborator Dr. Enrique Pérez-Montero,Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía, S/N, E18088 - Granada, Spain, [email protected].
+34-958-230-623
PhD Co-Advisor Dr. J. Alfonso L. Aguerri,Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Vía Láctea S/N, E-38200, La Laguna, Spain, [email protected].
