Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, MD, USA — since Jan 2014
Assistant Astronomer (tenure track) (AURA)
Circumstellar disks; solar & extra-solar planetary systems; interplanetary dust; dynamical simulations; extrasolar "comets"; infrared observations; science policy
Ph.D., Astronomy; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA — 2004
Signatures of Planets in Circumstellar Debris Disks, Directed by Renu Malhotra.
M.Sc., Astronomy; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA — 2000
Infrared and Millimetric Study of the Young Outflow Cep E, Directed by A. Noriega-Crespo.
Licenciatura, Physics; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain — 1998
Five-year program. Specialty: Fundamental Physics.
The Johns Hopkins University, Physics & Astronomy, Baltimore, MD, USA — Sep 2014-Aug 2016
Associate Research Scientist
Spanish National Research Council, Centro de Astrobiología, Spain — Oct 2008-Dec 2013
Ramón y Cajal Fellow (tenure-track)
Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA — Jan 2005-Jun 2014
Visiting Research Collaborator — Oct 2008-Jun 2014
Michelson Fellow — Sep 2005-Oct 2008
Lyman Spitzer Fellow — Jan 2005-Oct 2008
Max Plank Institute fur Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany — Sep 2004 - Dec 2004
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Arizona, Astronomy Department, Tucson, AZ, USA — Oct 1998-Aug 2004
Research Assistant — May 2001-Aug 2004 and May 1999-Aug 2000
Teaching Assistant — Aug 2000-May 2001
College of Science Fellow — Oct 1998-May 1999
Visiting Fellow; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences — 2009
University of Cambridge (UK).
Ramón y Cajal Fellowship; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas — 2007
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain).
Michelson Fellowship, NASA-Michelson Science Center-Caltech — 2005
(brought to Princeton University).
Lyman Spitzer Fellowship, Princeton University — 2004
Department of Astrophysical Sciences.
Gerad P. Kuiper Memorial Award; University of Arizona — 2004
Department of Planetary Sciences.
College of Science Fellowship; University of Arizona — 1998
Department of Astronomy.
Vicepresident and founding member of the Spanish Association for the Advancement of Science (since 2018).
Governing Board member of Euroscience (2012-2014).
Governing Board member of Real Sociedad Española de Física (2011-2014).
Promoter of the science advocacy platform Carta por la Ciencia (2011-2015).
Founder and former spokeperson of the science advocacy platform Investigación Digna (2010-2015).
Activities include: