Curriculum Vitae: Name: Sebastián F. Sánchez, Phd Nationality: Spanish (UE). Birth Date: 23/12/1972. Marital Status: Married W
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Curriculum Vitae: Name: Sebastián F. Sánchez, PhD Nationality: Spanish (UE). Birth Date: 23/12/1972. Marital Status: Married with two children. Current Webpage: http://www.caha.es/sanchez/ A) Summary of the Curriculum Vitae: 1) Professional Background: a. January 2012: “Ramon y Cajal Fellow”, IAA-CSIC. Spain. b. August 2010 – December 2011: CAHA Resident Astronomer. Spain. c. May 2009- July 2010: ARAID Researcher. Spain (20% CAHA Res. Astronomer). d. July 2008 – April 2009: CAHA Resident Astronomer. Spain (*). e. October 2004-June 2008: CAHA Support Astronomer. Spain (*). f. August 2002- September 2004: Euro3D-RTN Postdoc, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP), Germany Instituto de Astrofísica de Potsdam (2002-2004). g. December 2000- June 2002: System Manager, Eremas Interactiva S.A., Spain. h. May 1999 – November 2000: Astronomical Adm. Support, ING (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes), PPARC, Spain. i. October 1998 – May 1999: Auxiliar Associated Lecturer. Modern Physics Department. Cantabria University, Spain. (*) During this period the applicant has no official time for doing research. 2) Academic Background: a. PhD in Physics, Cantabria University, June 2001. “Cum Laude “ Qualification (Honors). b. Physics Degree, Salamanca University (1990-95; High qualifications: 3.2 over 4). c. Official Pedagogical Training Certificate, Cantabria University, 1999. 3) Science Publications: a. 214 publications, with 3474 citations, H=31 (ADS, Apr. 2013). b. 128 in International peer-reviewed journals. c. Several oral and poster presentations in International conferences and Workshops. Last ones: - IAU General Assembly, Beijing, August 2012, Invited Speaker, SpS8: “The CALIFA survey, status report” - 9th AIP thinkshop, Potsdam, September 2012, Invited Speaker: “The CALIFA survey, status report”. - 3D metals in Tuscany, Abbadia di Spineto, Italy, June 2012, Invited Speaker: “The properties of the HII regions with the CALIFA data”. d. Different collaborations in Academic and Public Understanding of Science Publications. 4) Supervising experience: a. Supervision of four post-docs within the CALIFA collaboration: i. E. Mármol-Queralto and K. Viironen (2009-2010): CALIFA feasibility studies. ii. D. Mast (2009-2012): CALIFA data acquisition. iii. F. Rosales-Ortega (2011): H-II regions in face-on spirals: From PINGS to CALIFA. b. Co-supervisor of two PhD Thesis: i. Dr. J. Aceituno, defended with honors in May 2009. ii. Dr. B. Husemann, defended with honors in October 2011. Actually, under the co-supervision of onr PhDs: R. Marino (with Dr. A.Gil de Paz, UCM). c. Lecturer at different International schools in astronomy: IFS turorial (IA- UNAM, 2013), IAC Winter School, in 3D Spectroscopy (2005), and NEON school (OPTICON, 2006 and 2010). d. Training of several PhD students and early in the reduction and analysis of 3D spectroscopy data. 5) Science projects: a. Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field spectroscopy Area Surrey –CALIFA- (PI). The widest project so-far using IFS. It will sample a representative sample of 600 galaxies in the Local Universe to establish the spatial resolved spectroscopic properties of the final product of the evolution of galaxies. Project proposed in May 2009, granted with 210 nights in April 2010. b. SAMI, Sydney AAO Multi-IFU survey (PI: S. Croom). A new proposed multi- bundle IFS survey of 5.000 galaxies, focused on the understanding of the environment in the evolution of galaxies. c. MaNGA, SDSS-IV survey (PI: K. Bundy). A multi-bundle IFS survey of 10.000 galaxies focused on the understanding of the evolution of galaxies by the analysis of their central regions. d. Euro3D (2002-2005). An EU granted Research Training network aimed to propagate the use of IFS as a common technique among European astronomers. e. STAGES, Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey. A single band survey of 80 tiles of ACS images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, to a depth of ~28 mag (3sigma), in conjunction with an accurate photometric redshift catalogue (provided by COMBO-17), focused on the Abell 901/902 clusters. Its main goal is to study the detail dependence of environment in the evolution of galaxies. Co-author of the HST proposal and Core Team member. f. GEMS, Galaxy Evolution with Morphology and SEDs. A two bands survey of 81 tiles of ACS images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, to a depth of ~28 mag (3 sigma), in conjunction with an accurate photometric redshift catalogue (provided by COMBO-17), focused in a non dense environment. Its main goal is to study in detail the morphological and SED evolution of galaxies in the last 8Gyr, in non dense environments. Core Team member. 6) Instrumental and Technical developments: a. Calar Alto Fiber-fed Echelle spectrograph –CAFE- (PI). Development of a new single aperture Echelle spectrograph for the 2.2m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory, focused on the search of extrasolar planets. Offered to the public for the 2012A semester ( http://www.caha.es/sanchez/cafe ). b. Member of the Instrumentation Group at the AIP (2002-2004). Member of the developing team of PPAK (Wide-Field IFU installed in PMAS). Technical responsible of PMAS at Calar Alto (2004-2009). c. Participating in the development of new instrumentation for the night-sky characterization, focused on the Light-pollution: EXCALIBUR, ASTMON (PI: J.Aceituno). d. Developer of different software tools for the reduction, analysis and visualization of IFS (or 3D spectroscopy) data: Euro3D, FIT3D, R3D and HIIexplorer. 7) Collaboration in different peer-review process: a. ANEP reviewer since 2006 (ANEP: Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospección ). Reviewer of 52 fund requests, including national and regional research programs, and instrumental development fund Requests. b. Member of the committee to assign Junior postdoc positions within the Juan de la Cierva program (2013). c. European Southern Observatory (ESO), Observing Programmes Committee (OPC), reviewer (2008 and 2009). Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei Panel. d. Member of the Calar Alto Guaranteed Time Allocation Committee (2008) e. Reviewer in international journals: PASP, MNRAS, A&A and AN. 8) Awards and Prizes: a. Granted with the “Ramón y Cajal”, Tenure Track Fellowship (2011). Accepted (2012-2016). b. I3 Program Certification (Sept. 2010): Certification of the the Spanish Ministery of Science as Qualified Senior Researcher. c. Granted with the “Ramón y Cajal”, Tenure Track Fellowship (2008). Declined . d. Granted with the “Juan de la Cierva”, Junior Postdoc Fellowship (2004). Declined . e. FPI PhD Fellowship. Ministery of Science PhD Research Fellowship. Cantabria University and Cantabria Physics Institute –IFCA- (1996-99). f. Science introduction Scholarship. Ministery of Science. Salamanca University. Optics Department (1994-95). g. Scholarship of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics, to follow the degree of Physics. (1990-1994). h. Winner of the 1ª Spanish Physics Olympic Games (Spain, 1990). i. Winner of the regional phase of the Mathematics Olympic Games (Córdoba, 1990). 9) Main Funding Awards as PI: a. CALIFA: The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey. (Jan 2013-Dec. 2015). 142.000 Euros. Spanish Ministery of Science. AYA-2012- 31935. b. CALIFA. (March 2011-March 2012). 50.000 Euros. Spanish Ministery of Science. Complementary Actions. AYA-2010-10904-E. c. APEGA: The Anchor Point of the Evolution of Galaxies. (Jan. 2011-Dec. 2011). 30.000 Euros . Spanish Ministery of Science. National Research Program. AYA- 2010-22111-C03-02 d. CALIFA: Calar Alto Legacy Ifs Area survey.(Nov.2009 -May 2011). 181.000 Euros . Spanish Ministery of Science. Large Infrastructures Complementary Actions. ICTS-2009-10. e. Calar Alto Instrumental Development. (Nov. 2009- Dec. 2010). 716.568 Euros . Large Infrastructures Design, Viability, Access and Improvement Program. Spanish Ministery of Science. ICTS-2009-32 (Including funds for the development of CAFE). f. Characterization of the astronomical properties of the night-sky at the Calar Alto Observatory for the preparation of large IFS surveys. (Jan. 2009-Dec. 2010). 100.000 Euros . Andalusian Regional Governement Research Plan. Excellence Project. P08-FQM-0360. g. Calar Alto Instrumental Development. (Nov. 2008- Dec. 2009). 149.831 Euros . Large Infrastructures Design, Viability, Access and Improvement Program. Spanish Ministery of Science. ICTS-2008-24. B) Publications, Seminars and additional information. 1) Publications and public presentations Summary: a. Co-author in 214 publications, with 3474 citations, H=31 (ADS, Sep. 2012). 117 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. b. First author in 36 publications, with 503 citations. 21 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. c. Second author in 26 publications in peer-review journals. d. 29 oral presentations in international conferences and workshops. 2) Invited Presentations to international conferences, workshops and schools: a. “CALIFA: Status Report”, IA-UNAM, IFS tutorial, Colloquium, March 2013, Mexico D.F., Mexico. b. “CALIFA: Status Report”, 9th AIP Thinkshop, September 2012, Potsdam, Germany. c. “CALIFA: Status Report”, IAU General Assembly, August 2012, Beijing, China, SpS8 . d. “The properties of the HII regions with the CALIFA data”, Metals in Tuscany, June 2012, Abbadia de Spineto, Italy. e. “CALIFA: A new view on HII regions”, Metals in 3D: New insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy”, April 2012, Palacio de Condes de Gabia, Granada. f. “CALIFA: Status Report”, Large Surveys in the Multi-IFS era , February 2012, CSIRO, Sydney,