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1 David Alonso Monge Contact information Nationality Education BIPAC Phone: (+44) (0) Denys Wilkinson Building Cell: (+44) (0) Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3RH, United Kingdom Spain Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. (web) B. Sc. in Physics (September, June, 2009) (9.23/10 - first in my year) M. Sc. in Theoretical Physics (September, October, 2011) (9.21/10) Master Thesis: Inhomogeneity in the Universe: observational cosmology and the nature of dark energy. Advisor: Juan García-Bellido. (9.5/10) Ph. D. in theoretical Physics (September, June, 2013) Thesis: Observational cosmology with galaxy surveys. Advisor: Juan García- Bellido. Scientific interests Cosmology (large scale structure, alternative dark energy models, computational cosmology, observational cosmology). Fundamental Physics (general relativity, quantum field theory, particle physics). Mathematics (differential geometry, group theory, functional analysis, statistics). Professional status Scholarships and grants Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, at Oxford University Name: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Theoretical Cosmology Period: 2+1 years (October October 2015) Supervisor: Joanna Dunkley and Pedro Gil Ferreira Place: Beecroft Institut of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Name: JAE-Predoc [Ph. D. scholarship] Period: 4 years (October October 2013) Given by: Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Place: Instituto de Física Teórica. Facultad de Ciencias - UAM Name: Ayuda para estancias breves [Research stay grant] Period: 4 months (March June 2011) Given by: Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Supervisor: Dr. John A. Peacock Place: Institute for Astronomy - Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1 of 7

2 Name: CERN Summer Student Programme Period: 13 weeks (June - September 2009) Given by: Organisation europenne pour la recherche nuclaire (CERN) Supervisor: Dr. Maurizio Pierini Place: CMS Experiment, CERN, Switzerland Project title: Reproduction of the noise in CMS calorimeters by MC simulations Name: Beca de Colaboración [Research collaboration grant - undergraduate level] Period: 1 year ( ) Given by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (MEC) Place: Departamento de Física Teórica. Facultad de Ciencias, UAM Name: JAE-Intro [Introduction to research for undergraduates] Period: 2 months (July - September 2008) Given by: Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Place: Instituto de Física Teórica - UAM Name: Diploma de Excelencia [Excellence Diplomma - undergraduate level] Period: 1 year ( ) Given by: Comunidad de Madrid Place: Departamento de Física Teórica. Facultad de Ciencias, UAM Name: Beca de Excelencia [Excellence Scholarship - undergraduate level] Period: 1 year ( ) Given by: Comunidad de Madrid Place: Departamento de Física Teórica. Facultad de Ciencias, UAM Name: Beca de Excelencia [Excellence Scholarship - undergraduate level] Period: 1 year ( ) Given by: Comunidad de Madrid Supervisor: Dr. Rafael Pérez Casero. Place: Departamento de Física Aplicada. Facultad de Ciencias, UAM Awards Name: Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carrera [Awarded yearly by the university to the first student in each degree] Awarded by: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Year: 2009 Name: 8 o Certamen Universitario Arquímedes de Introducción a la Investigación Científica, Premio Especial Año de la Astronomía. [Yearly national science award - special IYA prize] Project title: Naturaleza de la Energía Oscura: Modelos LTB en Cosmología Awarded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (MEC) Year: 2009 Name: Matrícula de Honor de Bachillerato [Honors degree in high school] Awarded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (MEC) Year: of 7

3 Name: 15th Spanish Physics Olympiad - Bronze Medal Awarded by: Sociedad Española de Física [Spanish Physics Association] Year: 2004 Name: Spring Math Contest - finalist. Awarded by: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Year: 2004 Name: Spring Math Contest - finalist. Awarded by: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Year: 2002 Name: Spring Math Contest - finalist. Awarded by: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Year: 2000 Publications. Alonso D., Eardley E., Peacock J. (2014). Halo abundances within the cosmic web. arxiv: Alonso D., Ferreira P.G., Santos M.G. (2014). Fast simulations for intensity mapping experiments. arxiv: Alonso D., Bueno Belloso A., Sánchez F. J., García-Bellido J., Sánchez E. Measuring the transition to homogeneity with photometric redshift surveys. MNRAS, 440:10. Sánchez E., Alonso D., Sánchez F. J., García-Bellido J., Sevilla I. (2012). Precise measurement of the radial Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scales in galaxy redshift surveys. MNRAS, 434:2008. Alonso D. (2012). CUTE solutions for two-point correlation functions from large cosmological datasets. arxiv: [astro-ph.im]. Alonso D., García-Bellido J., Haugbølle T., Knebe A. (2012). Halo abundances and shear in void models. Phys.Dark Univ. 1:24. Alonso D., García-Bellido J., Haugbølle T., Vicente J. (2010). Large Scale Structure simulations of inhomogeneous LTB models. PRD, 82: Sánchez E., Carnero A., García-Bellido J., Gaztañaga E., de Simoni F., Crocce M, Cabre A., Fosalba P., Alonso D. (2011). Tracing the sound horizon scale with photometric redshift surveys. MNRAS, 411:277. Teaching Experience Talks given ( ) High school tutor (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English). (2011, 1 semester) Teaching assistant of Physics III (special relativity and quantum mechanics for 1st year undergraduates) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. ( , 1 semester) Teaching assistant of Mathematical Methods I (ODEs, 2nd year) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Title: Lognormal mock catalogs for large-scale structure Event(s): Dark Energy Survey collaboration meeting (University of Barcelona, Spain, October 2013). 3 of 7

4 Title: Simulations of LTB cosmologies Event(s): Euclid joint CSWG-THWG meeting (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, March 2013). Title: Measuring homogeneity with DES Event(s): Dark Energy Survey collaboration meeting (University of Texas A&M, College Station, USA, December 2012). Title: Precise measurement of the radial BAO scale in galaxy redshift surveys Event(s): Coffee Talk at the Institute for Astronomy (Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, UK, November 2012). Title: Halo abundances and shear in void models Event(s): 7th Iberian Cosmology Meeting (University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2012). Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS (CCBPP, Benasque, Spain, August 2012). Title: LSS simulations of inhomogeneous LTB void models Event(s): Dark Energy Survey collaboration meeting (University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, October 2011). Seminars given Title: Measuring the transition to homogeneity with photometric redshift surveys Place: Imperial College London, United Kingtom. March Title: Measuring the transition to homogeneity with photometric redshift surveys Place: University of the Western Cape, South Africa, February Title: Halo abundances and shear in void models Place: University of Helsinki, Finland, February Title: Precise measurement of the radial BAO scale in galaxy redshift surveys Place: University of Geneva, Switzerland, November Conferences and workshops attended Title: PACT 2013 Place: Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC Date: October 2013 Title: Euclid joint CSWG-THWG meeting Place: University of Oxford Date: March 2013 Title: Workshop on Cosmological Tests of Gravity Place: University of Oxford Date: March 2013 Title: DES Collaboration Meeting 4 of 7

5 Place: University of Texas A&M Date: December 2012 Title: Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS Place: Benasque Center for Science Date: August 2012 Participation: young speaker Title: DES Collaboration Meeting Place: Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Date: May 2012 Title: VIIth Iberian Cosmology Meeting Place: University of Lisbon Date: April 2012 Title: DES Collaboration Meeting Place: University Pennsylvania Date: October 2011 Title: COSMO 11 Place: University of Porto Date: August 2011 Title: The Nature of Dark Energy Place: UAM Date: May 2011 Title: Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS Place: Benasque Center for Science Date: August 2010 Title: Taller de Altas Energías Place: UAM Date: July 2008 Computer skills. Operating systems: UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X. Programming languages: C, C++, Fortran, python, Unix shell. Parallel programming: OpenMP, CUDA (parallelization on graphics cards), MPI. Cosmological software: Gadget-2, 2LPT-IC, CAMB, CUTE. 5 of 7

6 Other scientific software: IDL, ROOT, Mathematica, Octave, Matlab, Maple, gnuplot. Other: SQL, basic web design, html, L A TEX, Microsoft Office. 6 of 7

7 Language skills. Language Spoken Read Written Spanish Native Native Native English Good Good Good Arabic Basic Basic Basic Italian Basic Basic Basic 7 of 7