My curriculum vitae – Full CV

Current position

ESA/AURA Astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute

Past positions

January 2019 – October 2020: Staff Astronomer at W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii (USA)

September 2016 – December 2018: Postdoctoral Assistant at Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona (USA)

June 2015 – July 2016: EMIR Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

Feb. 2015 – May 2015: Postdoc fellow at Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie. Heidelberg, Germany.

Education

October 2011 – February 2015

PhD student at Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie. Heidelberg, Germany.

Subject: Physical Properties of Brown Dwarfs.

Supervisors: Prof. T. Henning, Dr. B. Goldman and Dr. S. Reffert.

2010 – 2011
Masters in Astrophysics. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain.

2005-2010
Degree in Physics. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain.

Scholarships and Rewards

2024

STScI Achievement in Astronomical Research Award

2023

• Considered one of the Most Influential Women of Castilla-La Mancha by El Español – Digital CLM 

2022

• NASA Agency Honor Award for outstanding contribution in designing, building, testing, launching, commissioning and operating JWST.
• Ramón y Cajal Fellowship 2021, Spain (rejected).
• Citizen of Honor of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Oct. 2011-Feb. 2015
IMPRS PhD fellowship, Heidelberg, Germany.

2010-2011
Trainee at ESAC, European Space Agency Center (Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid).

Subject: Analysis of gravitational microlensing events using OSIRIS on board Rosetta.

Summer 2010

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Summer Research Scholarship.

Subject: Mode-Identification of the pulsating stars in the cluster NGC 6811.

2009-2010
Scholarship from the Spanish Goverment (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) to collaborate with Física de la Tierra, Astronomía y Astrofísica department. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Subject: Construcción de una estación de detección de Bólidos en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2005-2010
Annual scholarship from the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) to complete the Degree on Physics and the Master on Astrophysics at

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005-2011.

Languages

Spanish: Mother Tongue

English: Advanced

German: Advanced

Grants (PI or co-PI): 

JWST GO 7035 (Cycle 4): 417,000$

 JWST GO 5226 (Cycle 3): 255,400$

2022 Astrophysics Data Analysis Program 2022: 246,584$ 

Students

Current:

Johns Hopkins Graduate Student: Natalia Oliveros-Gomez

Johns Hopkins Graduate Student: Jared Bull

Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Student: Kieran Manjrawala

Past:

STScI SAPS Undergraduate student: Brian Seamons

High School Student: Sienna Simms

To find further details of my published papers check my ADS