Currículum Vitae. Dr. Fernando Fabián Rosales Ortega. General information. Academic Background. Positions Held. Ph.D. Cantab, FRAS

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1 Currículum Vitae Dr. Fernando Fabián Rosales Ortega Ph.D. Cantab, FRAS General information Nationality: Mexican Age: 31 years old Date of birth: 20th January Academic Background Ph.D. degree in Astronomy Thesis title: Multi-dimensional analysis of the chemical and physical properties of spiral galaxies Supervisor: Prof Robert C. Kennicutt, Plumian Professor of Astronomy Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK M.Sc. degree in Astrophysics, with first class honours Thesis title: Determination of primordial helium abundance from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data Supervisors: Dr. Roberto Terlevich and Dr. Elena Terlevich Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla, Mexico Bachelor degree in Physics, Ad Honorem Thesis title: Determination of primordial helium abundance Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Terlevich Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico Positions Held 2012-present Faculty position (tenure-track) Investigador Titular A, Coordinación de Astrofísica Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica Tonantzintla, Mexico Postdoctoral associate Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, Spain Grant: Consolidación de Grupos de Investigación (CONACyT, Mexico) Postdoctoral associate Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain Grant: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 1

2 Honours and Awards Candidato a Investigador Nacional, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, CONACyT, Mexico. The Paris Pişmiş Prize For the best Mexican M.Sc. thesis in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Science in Scientific Committee of the XXII National Astronomical Meeting, Mexico. SEP Excellence programme scholarship Awarded by the Ministry of Education, Mexico. Covering the period: Multi-wavelength Analysis of Galaxy Populations Summer School grant MAGPOP European Union Research Training Network, Rouse Ball and Eddington Research Fund grant Travel and living expenses for the Ph.D. fieldwork. Trinity College, Cambridge, UK Mexican National Council for Science and Technology Scholarship University fees and maintenance for three years at the University of Cambridge Latin American-European Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology Grant Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham National Youth Award Acknowledgment Finalist on the Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2003 & 2005 competitions, which represents the most important academic honour and acknowledgement of the Mexican government to distinguished young people. International Astronomical Union grant Latin-American Regional IAU Meeting, Pucón, Chile M.Sc. First Class Honours Acknowledgment Awarded by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico BA in Physics Ad Honorem Awarded by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico IX Vatican Observatory Summer School scholarship Hold at the Pontifical Palace of Castelgandolfo, Rome, Italy. Summer International Undergraduate Summer School on Particle Physics and Astronomy scholarship Awarded by the UK Strategic Investment Agency and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, PPARC. School hosted by the Cavendish Laboratory, the Institute of Astronomy and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK. Summer Participation in Research Projects Project: PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey: PINGS PI: F. Fabián Rosales-Ortega Participing Entities: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany; Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán de Calar Alto, Spain Length: from 2007 to present 2

3 Project: Calar Alto Large Integral Field Area Survey: CALIFA (team member) PI: Sebastián F. Sánchez Participing Entities: Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán de Calar Alto, Spain; Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK; Instituto de Astrofísica de las Canarias, IAC, Spain; Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA, Spain; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany Length: from 2010 to 2015 (expected) Project: Spanish contribution to the James Webb space telescope and related scientific projects PI: Santiago Arribas Mocoroa Participing Entities: Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain Length: from 2008 to 2012 Project: A non-parametric determination of primordial helium abundance PI: Evan D. Skillman Participing Entities: William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico Length: from 09/2006 to 03/2007 Project: The epoch of re-ionization from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation PI: Prof. Carlos Frenk Participing Entities: Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham, UK; Latin American- European Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology Length: from 01/2006 to 03/2006 Project: The evolutionary status of Sher 25, implications for blue supergiants and SN1987A PI: Stephen J. Smartt Participing Entities: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK; UK Strategic Investment Agency, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Length: from 06/2001 to 08/2001 Project: Comparison of atmospheric parameters with synthetic spectra and the effective temperatures of hot-sub luminous stars from far-uv fluxes PI: Miguel Chávez Dagostino Participing Entities: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica Length: from 06/2000 to 05/2001 Theses Supervised Ph.D. Title: Stellar Populations Analysis Along the Hubble Sequence using Integral Field Spectroscopy Candidate: Anaely Pacheco Blanco Supervisors: J. R. Valdés, O. Vega, F. F. Rosales-Ortega Institute: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico Status: started 2011, degree expected by 2014 Title: Study of cirumnuclear starforming regions from Integrated Field Spectroscopy observations Candidate: Marina Rodríguez Baras Supervisors: A. Díaz, F. F. Rosales-Ortega Institute: Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Status: started 2012, degreee expected by

4 M.Sc. Title: Stephan s Quintet from a new perspective: Analysis of Integrated Field Spectroscopy observations Candidate: Marina Rodríguez Baras Supervisors: A. Díaz, F. F. Rosales-Ortega Institute: Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Status: Completed, degreee obtained in June 2012 Title: Stellar Populations Analysis Along the Hubble Sequence Candidate: Anaely Pacheco Blanco Supervisors: J. R. Valdés, O. Vega, F. F. Rosales-Ortega Institute: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico Status: Completed, degreee obtained in January 2011 List of Publications Refereed Publications 1. CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: II. First public data release B. Husemann, K. Jahnke, S. F. Sánchez, D. Barrado-Navascues, S. Bekeraitė, D. J. Bomans, A. Castillo- Morales, C. Catalán-Torrecilla, R. Cid Fernandes, J. Falcón-Barroso, R. García-Benito, R. M. González Delgado, J. Iglesias-Páramo, B. D. Johnson, D. Kupko, R. López-Fernandez, M. Lyubenova, R. A. Marino, D. Mast, A. Miskolczi, A. Monreal-Ibero, A. Gil de Paz, E. Pérez, I. Pérez, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, T. Ruiz- Lara, U. Schilling, G. van de Ven, J. Walcher, J. Alves, A. L. de Amorim, N. Backsmann, J. K. Barrera- Ballesteros, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R.-J. Dettmar, M. Demleitner, A. I. Díaz, H. Enke, E. Florido, H. Flores, L. Galbany, A. Gallazzi, B. García-Lorenzo, J. M. Gomes, N. Gruel, T. Haines, L. Holmes, B. Jungwiert, V. Kalinova, C. Kehrig, R. C. Kennicutt Jr, J. Klar, M. D. Lehnert, Aacute;. R. Lóez-Sáchez, A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres, E. Mármol-Queraltó, I. Márquez, J. Mendez-Abreu, M. Mollá, A. del Olmo, S. E. Meidt, P. Papaderos, J. Puschnig, A. Quirrenbach, M. M. Roth, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, K. Spekkens, R. Singh, V. Stanishev, S. C. Trager, J. M. Vilchez, V. Wild, L. Wisotzki, S. Zibetti, and B. Ziegler; Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press (2013) 2. Integral field spectroscopy of a sample of nearby galaxies. II. Properties of the H ii regions S. F. Sánchez, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. A. Marino, J. Iglesias-Páramo, J. M. Vílchez, R. C. Kennicutt, A. I. Díaz, D. Mast, A. Monreal-Ibero, R. García-Benito, J. Bland-Hawthorn, E. Pérez, R. González Delgado, B. Husemann, Aacute;. R. López-Sánchez, R. Cid Fernandes, C. Kehrig, C. J. Walcher, A. Gil de Paz, and S. Ellis; Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.546, A2 (2012) 3. The NGC 7771+NGC 7770 minor merger: harassing the little one? A. Alonso-Herrero, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, S. F. Sánchez, R. C. Kennicutt, M. Pereira-Santaella, and Aacute;. I. Díaz; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v.425, L46 (2012) 4. A New Scaling Relation for H II Regions in Spiral Galaxies: Unveiling the True Nature of the Mass-Metallicity Relation F. F. Rosales-Ortega, S. F. Sánchez, J. Iglesias-Páramo, A. I. Díaz, J. M. Vílchez, J. Bland-Hawthorn, B. Husemann, and D. Mast; The Astrophysical Journal, v.756, L31 (2012) 5. Integral field spectroscopy based Hα; sizes of local luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies. A direct comparison with high-z massive star-forming galaxies S. Arribas, L. Colina, A. Alonso-Herrero, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, A. Monreal-Ibero, M. García-Marín, S. García-Burillo, and J. Rodríguez-Zaurín; Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.541, A20 (2012) 4

5 6. Integrated spectra extraction based on signal-to-noise optimization using integral field spectroscopy F. F. Rosales-Ortega, S. Arribas, and L. Colina; Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.539, A73 (2012) 7. CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. I. Survey presentation S. F. Sánchez, R. C. Kennicutt, A. Gil de Paz, G. van de Ven, J. M. Vílchez, L. Wisotzki, C. J. Walcher, D. Mast, J. A. L. Aguerri, S. Albiol-Pérez, A. Alonso-Herrero, J. Alves, J. Bakos, T. Bartáková, J. Bland- Hawthorn, A. Boselli, D. J. Bomans, A. Castillo-Morales, C. Cortijo-Ferrero, A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A. Del Olmo, R.-J. Dettmar, A. Díaz, S. Ellis, J. Falcón-Barroso, H. Flores, A. Gallazzi, B. García-Lorenzo, R. González Delgado, N. Gruel, T. Haines, C. Hao, B. Husemann, J. Iglésias-Páramo, K. Jahnke, B. Johnson, B. Jungwiert, V. Kalinova, C. Kehrig, D. Kupko, Aacute;. R. López-Sánchez, M. Lyubenova, R. A. Marino, E. Mármol-Queraltó, I. Márquez, J. Masegosa, S. Meidt, J. Mendez-Abreu, A. Monreal-Ibero, C. Montijo, A. M. Mourão, G. Palacios-Navarro, P. Papaderos, A. Pasquali, R. Peletier, E. Pérez, I. Pérez, A. Quirrenbach, M. Relaño, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, M. M. Roth, T. Ruiz-Lara, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, C. Sengupta, R. Singh, V. Stanishev, S. C. Trager, A. Vazdekis, K. Viironen, V. Wild, S. Zibetti, and B. Ziegler; Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.538, A8 (2012) 8. Integral field spectroscopy of a sample of nearby galaxies. I. Sample, observations, and data reduction E. Mármol-Queraltó, S. F. Sánchez, R. A. Marino, D. Mast, K. Viironen, A. Gil de Paz, J. Iglesias-Páramo, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, and J. M. Vilchez; Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.534, A8 (2011) 9. PPAK wide-field Integral Field Spectroscopy of NGC II. Emission line abundance analysis F. F. Rosales-Ortega, A. I. Díaz, R. C. Kennicutt, and S. F. Sánchez; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v.415, 2439 (2011) PINGSOFT: An IDL visualisation and manipulation tool for integral field spectroscopic data F. F. Rosales-Ortega; New Astronomy, v.16, 220 (2011) On the nature of the H II regions in the extended ultraviolet disc of NGC 4625 Q. E. Goddard, F. Bresolin, R. C. Kennicutt, E. V. Ryan-Weber, and F. F. Rosales-Ortega; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v.412, 1246 (2011) PPAK Wide-field Integral Field Spectroscopy of NGC I. The largest spectroscopic mosaic on a single galaxy S. F. Sánchez, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. C. Kennicutt, B. D. Johnson, A. I. Diaz, A. Pasquali, and C. N. Hao; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v.410, 313 (2011) PINGS: the PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. C. Kennicutt, S. F. Sánchez, A. I. Díaz, A. Pasquali, B. D. Johnson, and C. N. Hao; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v.405, 735 (2010) The evolutionary status of Sher 25 - implications for blue supergiants and the progenitor of SN 1987A S. J. Smartt, D. J. Lennon, R. P. Kudritzki, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. S. I. Ryans, and N. Wright; Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.391, 979 (2002) Non-Refereed Publications 1. PINGSoft 2: an IDL Integral Field Spectroscopy Software, ready for the CALIFA survey data F. F. Rosales-Ortega; ArXiv e-prints, (2012) 5

6 2. The oxygen abundance in the IFU era F. F. Rosales-Ortega, S. F. Sánchez, and A. I. Díaz; ArXiv e-prints, (2012) 3. Integral field spectroscopy surveys of nearby spiral and U-LIRG galaxies F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. C. Kennicutt, and S. Arribas; Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, v., 320 (2011) 4. Calibrating the position of images and spectra in the NIRSpec instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope de Marchi, G., M. B. J. Te Plate, S. M. Birkmann, T. Böker, P. Ferruit, G. Giardino, P. Jakobsen, M. Sirianni, J.-C. Savignol, X. Gnata, R. Barho, M. Kosse, P. Mosner, B. Dorner, G. Cresci, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, M. Stuhlinger, T. Gross, and T. Leikert; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, v.8150, (2011) 5. Wavelength calibration of the JWST near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) Birkmann, S. M., T. Böker, P. Ferruit, G. Giardino, P. Jakobsen, G. de Marchi, M. Sirianni, M. B. J. Te Plate, J.-C. Savignol, X. Gnata, T. Wettemann, B. Dorner, G. Cresci, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, M. Stuhlinger, R. Cole, J. Tandy, and C. Brockley-Blatt; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, v.8150, (2011) 6. The Promise of Multiwavelength and IFU Observations Kennicutt, R. C., C.-N. Hao, B. D. Johnson, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, A. Díaz, A. Pasquale, and S. F. Sánchez; IAU Symposium, v.262, 217 (2010) 7. The underlying stellar absorption contribution to the primordial helium abundance determination F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. Terlevich, E. Bertone, and M. Chavez; ArXiv e-prints, v., arxiv: (2011) 8. The Determination of Primordial Helium Abundance Using SDSS F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. J. Terlevich, and E. Terlevich; Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, v.26, 198 (2006) Chapters, Books, Reviews 1. F. F. Rosales-Ortega 2010, Two-dimensional wide-field spectroscopy of nearby spiral galaxies, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: Public Outreach 1. F. F. Rosales-Ortega, Science and development in Latin America: the Mexican example, The UWCAd Economics Society Journal, September F. F. Rosales-Ortega and N. Wright, Sher 25: unveiling the secrets of a superstar, Frontiers PPARC magazine, Winter

7 Presentations in Meetings/Conferences May 2012 Talk: Unveiling the true nature of the mass-metallicity relation Mapping oxygen in the universe, Tenerife, Spain Apr 2012 Talk: The true nature of the metallicity gradient of NGC 1058 Metals in 3D: new insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy, Granada, Spain Apr 2012 Dec 2011 Nov 2011 Apr 2011 Sep 2010 Talk: The analysis of extragalactic nebular emission in the IFU era ESTALLIDOS workshop, Granada, Spain Talk: Exploring the study of HII regions with IFS CALIFA Busy Week, Almería, Spain Poster: First results from PINGS: the PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey XXIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Tenerife, Spain Talk: PINGSoft: an IDL tool for the visualization and manipulation of IFS data CALIFA Busy Week, Almería, Spain Talk: IFS surveys of nearby spirals and ULIRGs galaxies Bienial meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Madrid, Spain Jul 2010 Talk: 2D spectroscopy of the starburst NGC 3310 Guillermo Haro workshop 2010: Compact superstar clusters, birth, evolution and feedback, Tonantzintla, Mexico Jun 2010 Jun 2009 Aug 2007 Jan 2007 Apr 2006 Dec 2006 Nov 2005 Oct 2005 Jun 2003 Oct 2003 Talk: Nebular emission in spiral galaxies: the PINGS experience CALIFA survey kick-off meeting, Almería, Spain Talk: PINGS: the PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey Vatican Observatory Alumni School, Rome, Italy Talk: Multidimensional analysis of galaxies using integral field spectroscopy Multi-wavelength Analysis of Galaxies Populations, Kloster Seeon, Germany Talk: Determination of the primordial helium abundance Metallicity Calibrations for Gaseous Nebulae, Institute of Astronomy, Hawaii, USA Talk: The epoch of re-ionization from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation XX National Meeting of Astronomy, Morelia, Mexico Poster: Determination of primordial helium abundance using SDSS XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy, Pucón, Chile Poster: The underlying stellar absorption contribution to the primordial helium abundance determination, Resolved Stellar Populations, Cancún, Mexico Poster: Determination of the primordial helium abundance XLVIII Congreso Nacional de Física, Guadalajara, Mexico Talk: Determination of primordial helium abundance based on SDSS DR3 Vatican Observatory Summer School, Rome, Italy Poster: The current status of massive neutrinos XLVI Congreso Nacional de Física 7

8 Related Abilities Computer Proficiency: Operative Systems: Programming languages: Software expertise: Software developed: Mac OSX, Unix, Linux, Windows IDL, Shell, HTML (excellent level); Perl (good level) extensive experience with Integral Field Spectroscopy related software (e.g. R3D, E3D, FIT3D), as well as with general astronomical software PINGSoft: and IDL visualization and manipulation tool for IFS data, freely available at Languages: Spanish: Native, English: Fluent, Italian: Fluent, French: Basic Telescope time awards/observing experience: Autumn 2012 Winter 2011 Autumn 2011 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 facility: 2.2m telescope, Calar Alto, Spain instrument: CAFOS length: 1 nights project: CAFOS imaging of PINGS galaxies facility: 4m telescope, William Hershel Telescope, Spain instrument: ISIS length: 2 nights project: Determination of primordial helium abundance facility: 4m telescope, William Hershel Telescope, Spain instrument: ISIS length: 2 nights project: The true nature of the metallicity gradient of NGC 1058 facility: 4m telescope, William Hershel Telescope, Spain instrument: ISIS length: 2 nights project: Determination of primordial helium abundance facility: 3.5m telescope, Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán at Calar Alto, Spain instrument: TWIN length: 2 nights project: Determination of primordial helium abundance facility: 3.5m telescope, Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán at Calar Alto, Spain instrument: PMAS-PPAK length: 250 nights project: Granted observing time within the CALIFA project collaboration (team member) Spring 2009 Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 facility: 3.5m telescope, Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán at Calar Alto, Spain instrument: PMAS-PPAK length: 3 nights project: PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey: PINGS facility: 4m telescope, William Hershel Telescope, Spain instrument: ISIS length: 4 hrs, service mode project: The lowest metallicity galaxy in the nearby Universe facility: 2.2m telescope, Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán at Calar Alto, Spain instrument: CAFOS length: 3 nights project: PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey: PINGS facility: 3.5m telescope, Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán at Calar Alto, Spain instrument: PMAS-PPAK length: 6 nights project: PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey: PINGS 8

9 Fall 2007 Fall 2005 facility: 3.5m telescope, Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán at Calar Alto, Spain instrument: PMAS-PPAK length: 4 nights project: PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey: PINGS facility: 2.1m telescope, Observatorio Astrofísico Nacional Guillermo Haro, Cananea, Mexico instrument: Boller & Chivens spectrograph length: 3 nights project: Determination of primordial helium abundance based on SSDS data Other Merits Professional memberships: Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, UK. Since 2008 Fellow of the Cambridge University Philosophical Society, UK. Since 2006 Affiliations: President, Local Organising Committee, 7th MexSocUK symposium, 2009 President, Cambridge University Mexican Society General Secretary of the Mexican Student Society in the UK