FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS (most recent first)
- Marie Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship. Project: “TraNSLate: Tracing galaxy evolution with Nuclear Structures in Late-type galaxies” (grant N. 101108180, Horizon Europe research and innovation program from the European Commission, call: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01) – 181152.96 €
- Visitor Program for (colloquium) invited speakers (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, Netherlands) – ~620€
- Macquarie University Visitor Program, Sydney, Australia – 1000 AUD ~ 630 €
- “Sign Up! Career building 2023” Training Program for Leadership (19 excellent early-career scientists selected out of 64 Max Planck institutes), Max Planck Society (MPG, Munich, 11/2022) ~ 2500€
- MPIA performance bonus for the role of Equal Opportunity Officer (MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany, 24/11/2022) – 1100 €
- IAU (International Astronomical Union) grant, General Assembly XXXI and IAU Symposium #373 (02/08/2022 – 11/08/2022) – 529 €
- MPIA performance bonus for the role of Equal Opportunity Officer and as a member of the MPIA Resilience Working Groups (MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany, 21/10/2021) – 1500 €
- La Caixa – Severo Ochoa International Fellowship for doctoral studies (Barcelona, Spain, 28/06/2016) – ~100000 € (a four-year grant).
- Summer Grant in Technological Development – IAC, Instrumentation Division. Project: “Modeling and characterization of EMCCD cameras used in adaptive optics, from a known stochastic model. Validation with real images.” Supervisor: Dr. H.M. Chulani (01/07/2014 – 30/09/2014) – 2160€
- External stage – IAC, Instrumentation Division. Project: “Participation in the design and execution of the test and calibration plan of a pixel prototype of the future instrument TGI for QUIJOTE”. Supervisor: Dr. R. Hoyland (01/11/2013 – 31/12/2013)
- Two Collaboration grants of one year – Scientific and Technological Centers of the University of Barcelona (CciT-UB), Unit of Nanometric Techniques. Supervisors: Dr. J. Díaz, Dr. G. Oncins (01/02/2011 – 31/01/2013) – ~12000 €
- European Commission Future Capital grant – Fundación Escuela de solidaridad, (Atarfe, Granada, Spain). Project: “Renewable-energy workshops for adults and children: construction and installation by the general public of solar cookers, toys, and devices” (01/10/2005 – 30/06/2006) – 5000€
AWARDED OBSERVING TIME (most relevant first)
- “Uncovering the origin of thick disks with MUSE”, P.I. Pinna F., ESO-VLT program 098.B-0662 (subm. 31/03/2016), 9 hours of MUSE observations (oversubscription factor: 18.9 in P98) – about 80k€ worth.
- “GECKOS:Turning galaxy evolution on its side with deep observations of edge-on galaxies”, Co-I (P.I. Van de Sande J.), ESO-VLT large program 1110.B-4019 (subm. 25/03/2022), 317 hours of MUSE observations – equivalent to about 2540k€ worth.
- “Exploring nuclear star cluster formation in late-type dwarf galaxies”, Co-I (P.I. Fahrion K.), ESO-VLT program 0108.B-0904 (subm. 25/03/2021), 25 hours of MUSE observations – equivalent to about 200k€ worth.
- “Nuclear-star-cluster formation in late-type galaxies: spatially resolving their stellar populations with MEGARA”, Co-I (P.I. García-Lorenzo B.), ENO-GTC program 75-GTC68/22B (subm. 04/04/2022), 25 hours of MEGARA observations – equivalent to about 25k€ worth.
- “Revealing the formation of Nuclear Star Clusters in spiral galaxies with MEGARA”, Co-I (P.I. García-Lorenzo B.), ENO-GTC program 53-GTC51/22A (subm. 04/10/2021), 25 hours of MEGARA observations – equivalent to about 25k€ worth.
- “VST Early-type Galaxy Survey (VEGAS): the Eridanus supergroup of galaxies”, Co-I (P.I. Iodice E.), ESO-GTO program 0106.A-0549 (subm. 23/04/2020), 4.5 night in visitor mode and 55.9 hours in service mode with OmegaCAM – equivalent to about 300k€ worth.
- “Using LIRIS to determine the role of shocks in unexpectedly transitioning galaxies”, Co-I (P.I. Lisenfeld U.), WHT program 28-WHT8/17A (subm. 03/10/2016), 3 nights with LIRIS – equivalent to about 30k€ worth.