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Jesús Gallego Maestro

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Jesús Gallego is full professor (catedrático) at Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Physicist (master in Astrophysics) born in Madrid, obtained his Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1995 by UCM. He has been linked to UCM since then and he is staff Professor since 2002. Its current position is catedrático (since may 2018).

The Ph.D. thesis of Jesús Gallego summarized all the efforts of the group during several years to carry out the UCM Survey. Jesús Gallego helped Prof. Zamorano observing fields, taking the original plates, with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope. He also scanned visually one by one all the photographic plates searching for emission-line objects. This huge work translated into several publications, being Gallego, Zamorano et al. (1995) ApJ 455, L1 the most widely known with more than 400 citations.

He was a postdoctoral researcher for the DEEP project at Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz. During this period the collaboration published a set of very productive papers: Gallego et al. 1997 (75 citations), Guzmán et al. 1997 (240 citations), Phillips et al. 1997 (165 citations), Lowenthal et al. 1997 (435 citations), Vogt et al. 1997 (180 citations) and Koo et al. 1997 (25 citations).
Jesús was a core member of the AEGIS collaboration. His contribution is related to the surveys using narrow-band filters in the near-IR (Gallego et al. 2007, Villar et al. 2008 -80 citations-, Villar et al. 2011) and to the Rainbow database (Pérez-González et al. 2008 -470 citations-, Barro et al. 2011a, 2011b).

Jesús Gallego focusses his astrophysics interest on Galaxies (Formation and Evolution) and development of astronomical instrumentation (Gallego et al. 2010).

One of major successes of Jesus Gallego was the design, development and delivery of the MEGARA instrument (PI A. Gil de Paz) for the Spanish 10.4m GTC telescope.
Its current activity contributes to the MEGARA, OTELO and GOYA projects to exploit scientifically the Guaranteed Time of the MEGARA, OSIRIS and EMIR instruments respectively.

Jesús Gallego is the Spanish representative in the Steering committee of the international consortium for the design and development of the MOSAIC instrument for the ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

Jesús also loves to travel all around the world to observe total solar eclipses. He has been both organizer and member of several of the UCM scientific expeditions to total solar eclipses. Visit http://eclipseucm.blogspot.com.es/ for amazing multimedia.

Since 2006, J. Gallego is also the manager of the ASTRONET network for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (former MICINN).

Webpage URL

http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/users/jgm/home.html

Other interests

- In 2009 I contributed to an exhibition of historical books at the UCM "Biblioteca histórica Marqués de Valdecilla". Please visit
http://biblioteca.ucm.es/blogs/Foliocomplutense/978.php#.VUtLxheWRN3

- My Google Scholar profile is
http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0WPb-kMAAAAJ&pagesize=100...

History

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