I am an accomplished astronomer with a PhD in Astrophysics. My research focuses on extrasolar planets and understanding how stellar activity affects their detection. I have 10 first-author publications in prestigious journals and have presented my work at international conferences. I have extensive observational experience and strong skills in programming, data analysis, and visualization. I am eager to apply my knowledge and skills to new challenges. I am a fast learner, a team player, and a creative problem-solver.

To this day, my work has resulted in 11 first-author articles, 86 articles as co-author, accumulating more than 3900 citations (h-index 38), as well as 20 talks and 8 posters.

Research Projects

NIRPS GTO (2019 – . . . ): International collaboration dedicated to the design, construction and scientific exploitation of the future spectrograph NIRPS, which will be installed at the 3.6m ESO telescope of the La Silla osbervatory (Chile). The spectrograph will work as an infrared arm to the HARPS spectrograph. The main goals are the search and characterization of extrasolar planets through radial velocity measurements and transmission spectroscopy.

IACSAT-1 (2021 – . . . ): Designt and construction of a small space telescope which will obtain high precision photometry in visible and near-infrared light, and low resolution spectroscopy in the near ultraviolet.

RoPES (2014 – . . . ): Project hosted at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias centered around the search for low-mass planets orbiting nearby solar type stars.

Terra Hunting Experiment (2022 – . . . ): Project aimed at the search for an Earth-twin orbiting a nearby star. Led by Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz.

ANDES (2022 – . . . ): Next generation high-resolution spectrograph for the ESO ELT telescope.

ESPRESSO GTO (2019 – 2023): International collaboration dedicated to the design, construction and scientific exploitation of the spectrograph ESPRESSO, installed at the VLT telescope array of the Paranal Observatory (Chile). The main goals are the search and characterization of extrasolar planets through radial velocity measurements and transmission spectroscopy.

HADES (2013 – 2022): Colaboration between spanish (IAC and IEEC) and italian (GAPS consortium) institutions dedicated to the search of low-mass planets orbiting nearby M-dwarfs.

Major achievements

• Discovery of two potentially habitable Earth-like planets orbiting the nearby M-dwarf GJ 1002 (A&A, 2023)
• Determination of the masses of the young planets V1298 Tau b and e, which defy current models of planetary evolution (Nature Astronomy, 2021)
• Confirmation of the presence of the earth-mass planet orbiting Proxima, using ESPRESSO observations (2020)
• Discovery of a system of 2 super-Earths orbiting the nearby K-dwarf HD 176986 (2018)
• Development relationship between the amplitude of activity induced RV signals and ther mean level of chromospheric activity of the stars (2017-2018)
• Measurements of rotation periods, magnetic cycles and activity induced RV signals in tens of FGKM-dwarfs, including the discovery of several magnetic cycles in fully convective M-dwarfs such as Proxima (2015-2018)
• Discovery of a 2.8 Earth-masses super-Earth on the inner edge of the habitable zone of the nearby M-dwarf GJ 625 (2017)
• Discovery of a super Earth orbiting the nearby M-dwarf GJ 536 (2017)
• Recalibration of the log R’hk activity proxy for stars with B-V 0.5 to 1.9 and development of a rotation vs activity relationship for slowly rotating late-type dwarfs (2015)

Taining and experience

• Post-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (2023 – …)
• Juan de la Cierva researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (2020 – 2023)
• Post-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (2019 – 2020)
• Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva (2016 – 2019)
• PhD in Astrophysics, University of La Laguna (2012 – 2016)
• Master in Astrophysics, University of La Laguna (2012 – 2014)
• Bachelor in Physics, University of Oviedo (2004 – 2011)