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PROFESIONAL SITUATION |
I am a full professor at 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 am a member of Centro de Investigacion Avanzada en Fisica Fundamental (CIAFF) and also a research associate of the Center for Computational Simulation (CCS)
TEACHING DUTIES |
I have taught the following undergraduate courses during the past years
Cosmology
II (Physical Cosmology)
Introduction
to Computational Methods.
I am currently teaching an undergraduate course for 2nd
year Physics
degree on COMPUTATION
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 was involved in
the MSc Program in
Astrophysics, a joint academic program of the two
main Public Universities of Madrid (UCM
and UAM) that, unfortunately, has
come to an end in 2012. Since 2006-2007 I
am teaching a graduate course in
Computational
Astrophysics
and galaxy formation.
Since 2013, the Master in
Astrophysics at UAM has merged with the
Master in Theoretical Physics. I am teaching in two of the
master courses: Computational Astrophysics and Advanced Cosmology, in
which I am the coordinator.
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
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My main research interest is Cosmological
Numerical Simulations..
I am currently involved in several international collaborations
to perform Grand Challenge cosmo simulations at different scales:
from the Local Universe to the Universe at high-z:
THE JUBILEE PROJECT
THE MULTIDARK PROJECT
THE MUSIC PROJECT
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 CURIE-HighZ PROJECT
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 and
other european supercomputers from PRACE
consortium .
Some nice animations from
high-resolution cluster SPH
simulations using entropy-conserving version of the parallel code
GADGET: click
here
If you are interested in my research work, you
can
take a look at my publication
list from
Here are the links to some of my old
(vintage) presentations
You can get the postscript files of my first
lectures on numerical simulations (15+ years ago)
given
at the two Summer Schools about Cosmological
Numerical Simulations
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
PERSONAL INTERESTS
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