Team

Héctor Socas-Navarro

Director, European Solar Telescope Foundation
Image of Héctor Socas-Navarro
Email hector.socas@est-project.eu
Visiting address European Solar Telescope Foundation Edificio IACTEC Parque Tecnológico y Científico de las Mantecas 38320 La Laguna Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Academic interests

  • Solar atmosphere

  • Spectro-polarimetry

  • Radiative transfer

  • Solar system

  • Public science communication

Education

  • 1995 - 1999 Ph.D. University of La Laguna (Spain)

Positions held

  • 2024 - now Director, European Solar Telescope Foundation
  • 2023 - 2024 Scientist at Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain)
  • 2019 - 2023 Director. Museum of Science and the Cosmos (Tenerife, Spain)
  • 2008 - 2019 Scientist at Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain)
  • 1999 - 2008 Scientist at High Altitude Observatory (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
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Additional Information

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