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Institute of Space Sciences Annual Report 2016 Institute of Space Sciences Annual Report 2016 An institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas(CSIC). Affiliated with the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC). Contents 1 About us 5 1.1 What is the Institute of Space Sciences?...................................5 1.2 New Director..................................................5 1.3 New Manager..................................................6 1.4 Internal structure and governance of the Institute..............................6 1.5 International Advisory Committee......................................7 1.6 Development of protocols for internal operations..............................7 2 Personnel 9 2.1 List of personnel................................................9 2.2 Visitors..................................................... 10 2.3 Personnel summary............................................... 12 3 Scientific Summary 13 3.1 Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences............................ 13 3.2 Department of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics............................ 14 3.3 Advanced Engineering Unit.......................................... 15 4 Some research highlights of this year 17 5 Missions and experiments 21 6 Publications summary 39 7 Publications Impact 41 8 Active projects in 2016 43 9 Appendix: Publication List 45 10 Other institutional activities 69 10.1 Ongoing & Completed Masters and Doctoral thesis............................. 69 10.2 Teaching & the Masters of Astrophysics and Cosmology.......................... 71 10.3 Outreach activities............................................... 72 10.4 Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics..................................... 73 10.5 Seminars Summary............................................... 73 10.6 Awards to our personnel............................................ 73 11 Competitive Funding Summary 75 12 Appendix: Seminars List 77 13 Appendix New projects in 2016 79 14 Appendix Active projects in 2016 81 3 Institute of Space Sciences 4 Chapter 1 About us 1.1 What is the Institute of Space Sciences? The Institute of Space Sciences pertains to the "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas”(the Spanish National Research Council, usually called CSIC). CSIC is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe, and is formally depending on the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Secretary of State for Research, De- velopment and Innovation. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress. Its institutes drive CSIC's research (about 120 in total, in all areas of sciences), which are spread across all the autonomous regions, and its more than 15000 staff, of whom more than 3000 are staff researchers and more than 3000 are doctors. CSIC has about 6% of all the staff dedicated to Research and Development in Spain, and they generate approximately 20% of all scientific production in the country. The Institute of Space Sciences is a new breed of research centers. It was officially created on January 17, 2008 (BOE #15, 3507, Orden ECI/4063/2007, of December 27, 2007), based on a proposal made about a decade before by the Governance of CSIC (Acta#11,11/99). The Institute of Space Sciences articulates the CSIC participation in the confederation of independent institutes affiliated with the "Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya" (IEEC). This is a non-for-profit foundation, founded inFebruary 1996, whose Board of Trustees includes, in addition to the CSIC, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Univer- sitat de Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Aut`onomade Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat Polit`ecnicade Catalunya (UPC). Our Institute thus benefits from the interaction and collaboration with both the larger CSIC structure and the Catalan community and government. The Director of the Institute of Space Sciences is at once, co-Director of IEEC Foundation. The association of the Institute of Space Sciences with both CSIC and IEEC is reflected in our acronym (IEEC-CSIC). In 2015, the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) moved to a new facility located at the campus of the Uni- versitat Aut`onomade Barcelona. This building (property of CSIC and built on purpose for our Institute) has 3500 square meters of useful space, distributed in laboratories and offices. 1.2 New Director Founding Director Prof. Jordi Isern stepped down on February 2016 after years of service. Under his directorship the Institute was founded, and grew from just a handful researchers, scattered in different locations, to a strong group of staff and dozens of engineers and postdocs, all under the same roof. The impact of Prof. Isern in the development of the Institute has been enormous, and all staff is grateful for his efforts and leadership. From March 2016, Prof. Isern has been succeeded by ICREA Prof. Diego F. Torres. Prof. Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1973) where he obtained a doctorate in physics (Cosmology and astrophysics of extended gravitational theories) by the National University of La Plata. He is a member of the Institute since 2006, when he arrived after several years of research at Princeton University and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, among others institutions, and became Director after being Head of its Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences. His research focuses on compact objects and galactic cosmic rays, pulsars, its nebulae, and the origin of cosmic rays. Diego Torres' research has been awarded the Shakti Duggal Prize in Physics Cosmic Rays of the International 5 Institute of Space Sciences 6 Union of Physics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Sr. Visiting Professorship of the Academy of Sciences of China, among other distinctions. 1.3 New Manager Former Manager Isabel Molt`ostepped down on September 2016, after years of service. She was essential for the Institute's transition from a newborn child back in 2000 to the large research infrastructure that it is today. All staff is grateful for his efforts and help and for the countless hours of work beyond the call of her duty. From November 2016, Ms. Angels Benet has succeeded Ms. Molt`o.Ms. Benet comes to our Institute after being Deputy Manager at the Institute of Materials Sciences in Barcelona, also a CSIC Institute. 1.4 Internal structure and governance of the Institute The organization chart of the Institute is shown in the Figure below. The Director's Office is chaired by the ICE Director, and composed by the Deputy Director and the Manager of the Institute. The Assistant to the Director supports the functioning of this office. The Institute Board is composed and functions following CSIC regulations. The Institute has two Departments and one Technical Unit. These 3 bodies are: • APS: Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences • CFP: Department of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics • AEU: Advanced Engineering Unit Each of these bodies (simply called Departments) have a Head. Research groups are part of these departments. According to the Institute's tradition and the approved internal regulations, all members with contracts of an initial duration of 5 years or more are considered senior Institute's members. All committees in the organization chart are executive. They are there to 'act' according to their guidelines, and to implement instructions given by their immediate upper level in the organization. Heads of Department (Committee members) are expected to be in office for a period of 4 (2) years. Our White Book for the institute's operations (available to all members, and produced in 2016) detail functioning roles, working guidelines, membership, responsibilities, procedures to implement recurrent actions, typical meetings cadence for each body, typical timescales to respond to predictable requests, etc. It also details our decision-making protocol as well as others for outreach activities, workspace allocation, teaching activities, laboratories operation, etc. The executive team is currently (3/2016-3/2020) formed by • Director: Diego F. Torres • Deputy Director: Ignasi Ribas Institute of Space Sciences 7 • Head of the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Department (APS): Josep Miquel Girart • Head of the Cosmology and Fundamental Physics Department (CFP): Enrique Gazta~naga • Head of the Advanced Engineering Unit (AEU): Josep Colom´e • Administrative Manager: Angels Benet • Assistant to the Director: Noem´ıCort´es The Institute Board is composed by the Director, Deputy Director, Manager and Heads of Department plus two working-force representatives and functions following CSIC regulations. In the period in the period 4/2016-4/2018, these representatives are Cristina Manuel y Josep M. Trigo. Current members of the commissions (4/2016-4/2018) are as follows: • Computing: Pablo Fosalba (chair) + Mart´ınCrocce + Josep Sanz • Workspace: Francisco Castander (chair) + Manager • Outreach: Laura Tol´os(chair) + Emma de O~na+ Ricard Casas • ICE Life: Nanda Rea (chair) + Carlos F. Sopuerta + V´ıctorMat´ın • Teaching: Aldo Serenelli (chair) + Margarita Hernanz + Llu´ısGesa 1.5 International Advisory Committee The International Advisory Committee of the Institute of Space Sciences has been formed in 2016 , and is currently (2016-2020) composed by • Karsten Danzmann, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Director. Expert on Gravita- tional Waves physics, is Director of the Division of Laser
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