Fernando Fabián Rosales Ortega
Ph.D. Cantab, FRAS
Positions held | Research staff, 2012-present | |
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica | ||
Tonantzintla, Mexico | ||
Postdoctoral associate, 2011-2012 | ||
Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | ||
and Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto | ||
Madrid and Almería, Spain | ||
Postdoctoral associate, 2010-2011 | ||
Centro de Astrobiología, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial | ||
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | ||
Madrid, Spain | ||
Education | 2010, Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK | |
Project: Multi-dimensional analysis of chemical and physical properties of spiral galaxies | ||
Supervisor: Prof. Robert C. Kennicut | ||
Member of Trinity College | ||
CONACyT full scholarship | ||
2006, M.Sc. in Astrophysics, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico | ||
Project: Determination of primordial helium abundance from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data | ||
Supervisors: Dr. Roberto Terlevich and Dr. Elena Terlevich | ||
CONACyT full scholarship | ||
2004, Bachelor in Physics Ad Honorem, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico | ||
Project: Determination of primordial helium abundance | ||
Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Terlevich | ||
BUAP Board of Studies scholarship for high academic achievement | ||
2000, International Baccalaureate, United World College of the Adriatic, Italy | ||
Extended Essay: Determination of Stellar Temperatures of Hot Sub-Luminous Stars | ||
Supervisor: Miguel Chávez Dagostino | ||
Full scholarship | ||
Honours and Awards | Candidato a Investigador Nacional, 2011-2013 | |
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, CONACyT, Mexico | ||
Postdoctoral grant, 2011 | ||
Consolidación de Grupos de Investigación, CONACyT, Mexico | ||
The Paris Pişmiş Prize | ||
For the best Mexican M.Sc. thesis in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Science in 2006-2007 | ||
Scientific Committee of the XXII National Astronomical Meeting, April 2008 | ||
SEP Excellence programme scholarship | ||
Dirección General de Relaciones Internacionales, Mexico 2007-2009 | ||
Rouse Ball and Eddington Research Fund grant | ||
Trinity College, 2007-2008 | ||
Latinoamerican-European Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology grant | ||
Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham, 2006 | ||
Special Acknowledgment, Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2005 | ||
Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud and SEP, Mexico | ||
International Astronomical Union grant | ||
Latin-American Regional IAU Meeting, Pucón, Chile 2005 | ||
First Class Honours Acknowledgment | ||
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, 2005 | ||
Special Acknowledgment, Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2003 | ||
Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud and SEP, Mexico | ||
Sponsorship grant, Mexican Embassy in the Holy See | ||
Ambassador: Dr. Fernando Estrada Sámano, 2003 | ||
Sponsorship grant, Government of the State of Puebla, Mexico | ||
Governor: Lic. Melquiades Morales Flores, 2003 | ||
IX Vatican Observatory Summer School scholarship | ||
Pontifical Palace of Castelgandolfo, Rome, Italy 2003 | ||
La ciencia en tus manos grant 2002, 2003 | ||
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico | ||
International Undergraduate Summer School on Particle Physics and Astronomy, 2001 | ||
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, PPARC, UK | ||
Hosted by the Cavendish Laboratory, the Institute of Astronomy and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge | ||
United World College of the Adriatic scholarship | ||
Italian Ministry of Education. Scholarship awarded in order to course the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Italy, 1998-2000 | ||
Professional memberships | Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, UK | |
Fellow of the Cambridge University Philosophical Society, UK | ||
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Mexico | ||
Affiliations | President, Local Organising Committee, 7th MexSocUK symposium, 2009 | |
President, Cambridge University Mexican Society (CUMexSoc, 2007-2008) | ||
General Secretary of the Mexican Student Society in the UK (MexSocUK, 2006-2007) | ||
Languages | Spanish (native), English and Italian (fluent), French and Portuguese (basic) | |
Programming | IDL (good), Perl, Shell and Phyton (basic) | |
Other interests | Sports (a lot!), music, photography, dancing, history of art, history of religions, economics, politics | |