I am a permament profesor of the Departamento de Física Teórica at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid . I belong to the Grupo de Astrofísica and to the Theoretical Astroparticle Group
 
 

   I have  taught  the following  undergraduate courses during the past years

Cosmology II (Physical Cosmology)

  I am  currently teaching an undergraduate  course on

   I was also  the Coordinator of the  Doctorate Program in  Cosmology and  Astrophysics  at UAM from 2001-2006 and was  teaching a graduate course on   Large Scale Structure  and Galaxy formation.

   I am  currently  involved in the development of the new MSc Program in Astrophysics, a joint  academic  program of  the two main Public Universities of  Madrid (UCM and UAM) .  Starting 2006-2007 I am teaching a graduate course in    Computational Astrophysics

    THE CLUES PROJECT

    The main goal of the CLUES (Constrained Local UniversE Simulations) project is to provide constrained simulations of the local universe designed to be used as a numerical laboratory of the current paradigm. The simulations will be used for unprecedented analysis of the complex dark matter and gasdynamical processes which govern the formation of galaxies. 

    THE MARENOSTRUM NUMERICAL COSMOLOGY PROJECT

    MNCP is an international  collaboration  to perform grand-challenge simulations  of galaxy and structure formation in the Universe  using  the MareNostrum Supercomputer . 

• Some nice animations  from  high-resolution cluster SPH simulations using entropy-conserving version of the parallel code GADGET:  click here

•        Results from hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation in VOIDS   click here

If you want to see a video of one of our  ancient  PPM  hydrodynamical simulations click here

Here is a very nice pictureof the gas distribution for 0.5 critical density contour and temperature of the faint hot gas around the halos in a 5 Mpc box This is part of a cosmological simulation of a Cold Dark Matter model with non-vanishing cosmological constant. It is worth to look at it

You can get the postscript files of my first lectures on numerical simulations (10+ years ago) given at the  two Summer Schools  about Cosmological Numerical Simulations

• Casablanca School of Astrophysics  (1996)
• NATO ASI Summer School: "The Restless Universe" (2000)

If you are interested in my research work, you can take a look to the viewgraphs of some talks I have given about numerical simulations at the

1997 Potsdam Cosmology Workshop. "Large Scale Structure in the Universe"

1998 Aspen  Winter Workshop on  Universal Star Formation

2006  The MareNostrum Universe

2006 ESAC-GRID Workshop: Cosmological SImulations of the Universe and it computational challenges.

2007. International Conference on X-ray Surveys. Rodos Island Greece

..Or take a look to the  papers we have published on this subject:

• Description of  the model: (MNRAS, 235,256 (1997). Here is the link to this paper.
• Results of simulations with the Multiphase model:
     HYDRODYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS OF GALAXY PROPERTIES: ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
        SELF-REGULATING GALAXY FORMATION AS AN EXPLANATION FOR THE TULLY-FISHER RELATION

I am always looking for good students willing to do a PhD in numerical cosmology. There are possibilities of financial assitance through fellowships offered by the Spanish Ministry of Education (MECD) and also from European Marie Curie Training Grants.
Postdoctoral fellowships from MECD for recently graduated non-spanish doctors are also possible. These fellowship can be extended to a maximum period of 18 months. Anyone interested can contact me by e-mail