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About me

Hmm, some words about me… I come from from the north coast of Spain, from Asturias. A green wet quite-cold region full of great places, food and drinks. Who said “morriña”? Yes. Mi childhood passed between 3 places. Schooldays in the town on Gijón, weekends at my father´s village, (La Corrada) and my mother´s village (Canfrias). And when I say village I actually mean hamlet.

My mother tells me that when I was around 5 years old I was going home with her from the playground when I saw a poster announcing a conference about starts. I asked her to read it loud for me, and to her surprise I had to explained her: “Don’t you yet know that I want to be a researcher of stars?”. The day after she gave me a children book about stars and explained me that if I wanted to be so I should know that they are called astronomers. Of course I could not understand a thing of the book, but that’s how it all began.

Some years later my father gave me the telescope that belonged to my grandfather. He was a science type. 15 minutes later I managed to slip it over the window while watching the forest of a nearby mountain. That was the last telescope I owned. I did receive one after that for Christmas. But I turned it back because I felt  it was too expensive for me.

Now I work using the finest most expensive solar telescopes in the world, from ground, on a space mission, satellites or rockets. That is quite a change. And quite a travel for me as well. After high school I was sure I wanted to do Astrophysics, so I went to the best place in Spain, Canary Island. I came back home after one week. I was just too young. It was around that time that I joined AEGEE and discovered a world (actually a Europe) of places and people. Alongside I did Physics at Oviedo and then came back 4 years later to Canary Island to finish my degree with a busy year of Astrophysics. Then came the opportunity to make my Thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, in the heart of Germany. And so I did, during 3 great years.

After the PhD  I moved to Washington DC to work at the Naval Research Laboratory, with a position as Research Assitant Profesor at the George Mason University. If you want to know more about my work or cv, use the links above. I can honestly say that I consider myself as a person with curiosity, endless curiosity about everything. It happens that I tend to like and remember better things about science and astrophysics. And I love to explain them to other people, to share the knowledge.If you want to know more about me you can check my flickr, you tube or my personal blog.

Some time ago I found a phrase I like:

The last sentence in my PhD thesis is the most important one, and it says the following:

Disfruten de la vida

Picture of everything I knew, felt, loved, learnt, ... in 2007.