Francisco Montenegro

Postdoc researcher and Lecturer - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Phone +34 91 394 4587
Visiting address Plaza de Ciencias 1. Ciudad Universitaria. CP 28040 - MADRID

Academic interests

During my early career as an astronomer I was working on large infrared surveys and later on the characterization of the radio-emitting Broad Absorption Line (BAL) Quasars, helping to understand whether those are regular quasars viewed from particular angles, or going through specific evolutionary phases. When I moved to ESO I got interested in observational techniques, the study of calibration sources and the commissioning of instrumentation for the Atacama PathFinder EXperiment (APEX). As leader of the Sciops team, I focused on making observatory processes more efficient through data-driven approaches. I work now as a postdoc at the Complutense University in Madrid, where I teach about astronomical instrumentation (including sub-mm technology).

Education

  • 2005 - 2008 PhD thesis "Radio-loud BAL QSOs" Univ. La Laguna (Spain) / Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna (Italy). Supervisors: K.-H. Mack, JI González-Serrano, I. Pérez-Fournón
  • 2003 - 2005 Master (DEA) Univ. La Laguna (Spain) / IRA-Bologna (Italy)
  • 2001 - 2002 BSc in Astrophysics. University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
  • 1996 - 2000 First cycle of physics studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Position held

  • 2022 - now  María Zambrano fellow at the Faculty of Physics of the UCM
  • 2015 - 2021 ESO - Head of APEX Science Operations

  • 2009 - 2014 ESO - Atacama PathFinder Experiment (APEX) Operations astronomer

  • 2003 - 2004 Research Herschel/SPIRE student, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Spain

 

Tags: WP4-Operations, ESO
Published Nov. 24, 2021 11:48 AM - Last modified Dec. 10, 2023 9:46 AM