Rafael Rebolo López

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Rafael Rebolo López
Rafael Rebolo
Born
Cartagena, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish
EducationPhD, astrophysics
Alma materUniversity of Grenada, University La Laguna
Awards
  • Jaime I Research Prize (2001)
  • Medalla de Honor al Fomento de la Invención (2004)
  • Jules Janssen prize (2014)
  • Premio Nacional de Investigación Blas Cabrera (2018)
Scientific career
InstitutionsInstitute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,

Rafael Rebolo López (born September 12, 1961, in Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish astrophysicist. In October 2013 he became the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias[1] (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands; IAC). He is a professor at the Spanish National Research Council. In 2002 Rebolo became an external professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and a member of the Max Planck Society.

Education

Rebolo earned a degree in physics from the University of Granada in 1984 and a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of La Laguna in 1987.[2]

Career

1984 Rafael Rebolo began as a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands ( IAC).

1997-1999 served as head of the IAC Research Division. In 1998

1998 Rebolo began to serve as a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Professor of Research in Physical Science

2002 Rebolo became a member of the Max Planck Society and External Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.[3][4][5]

Rebolo has developed research projects in

exoplanets.[7]

The TNG (Telescopio Nazionale Galileo) is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the "Roque de los Muchachos" Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.
The TNG is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the "Roque de los Muchachos" Observatory in the Canary Islands, Spain.

Rebolo and his team were responsible for the discovery in 1995 of the first

Observatorio del Teide in collaboration with the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge.

Brown dwarf, artists conception, smaller than a star bigger than a planet

Rebolo leads the

QUIJOTE consortium for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background[20][21] with telescopes in Tenerife.[22] He is co-director of a high-precision spectrograph[16][23] ESPRESSO for detecting exo-Earths [16][24] with the 8 m Very Large Telescope (VLT) ) in Chile, and the AOLI project for high spatial resolution imaging[25] on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands. He is co-investigator of the European Space Agency’s Planck[16][10] and Euclid space missions, and member of the Board of the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Cherenkov Telescope Array. He was also a member of the science committee of the 40 m E-ELT telescope, the steering committees of several European networks in astronomy (OPTICON; EARA) and the US (AURA) and the Scientific Committee "Science Vision for European Astronomy" and co-chair of the "Stars and Planets" panel. He is Scientific director of the "IAC: Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" program since 2011.[26]

Awards and honors

Rebolo is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain, Academician of the Academy of Science and Engineering Lanzarote, Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Region of Murcia, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.

  • Iberdrola Prize of Science and Technology (2000)
  • Jaime I Research Prize (2001)
  • Canary Islands Prize for Research (2002)
  • Medalla de Honor al Fomento de la Invención / Medal of Honor for the Promotion of the Invention (2004)[27]
  • Jules Janssen Prize of the French Astronomical Society (2015)
  • Premio Naciional de Investigación Blas Cabrera (2018)

References

  1. ^ "Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC - Educational Outreach". www.iac.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  2. ^ "Rafael Rebolo the new Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
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  4. OCLC 45336869.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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    S2CID 9857299
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    S2CID 540578
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    S2CID 388656
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    S2CID 119178636
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  20. doi:10.1111/j.1365-8711.1998.01139.x
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  21. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06563.x
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  22. ^ Study of the background cosmic microwave radiation ; read at the reception Dr. D. Rafael Rebolo López July 11, 2009 http://www.academiadelanzarote.es Archived 2019-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
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  24. S2CID 45347068
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  25. S2CID 10595230
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  26. S2CID 28029538
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  27. ^ "Rebolo, director del Astrofísico de Canarias,Premio Nacional de Investigación". Ultima Hora edicion espanol. 5 December 2018. Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.

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