Faculty

Pablo Cerdá Durán received his PhD in Physics from the Universitat de València in 2007. After holding postdoctoral positions in Munich, Valencia, and Trento, he became a "Ramón y Cajal" research fellow in 2013 and Científico Titular at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in 2018. Since March 2020 he is Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Universitat de València, and a member of the Virgo Collaboration. He is also co-coordinator of the Computing working group of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration. His research interest encompasses compact objects, stellar collapse, magnetic fields in compact objects, magnetars, gravitational waves and numerical relativity.

Daniela Doneva is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Universitat de València.

José Antonio Font is full professor at the Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica of the Universitat de València. He received his PhD at the Universitat de València in 1997. After two postdoctoral positions at the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (Germany) and the Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, he obtained a postdoctoral position from the Spanish MEC in 2000 and became a member of the Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica of the Universitat de València, where he holds a full professor position since 2008. The research interests of JAF span different topics in relativistic astrophysics and numerical relativity. In particular: gravitational collapse and supernova formation, oscillations of relativistic stars and gravitational wave emission, microphysics in core-collapse supernovae, binary neutron star mergers and post-merger dynamics. He is a member of the Virgo Collaboration. He is the spokesperson (chair) of the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board (OSB), and co-chair of the working group on cosmology and fundamental physics.

Milton Ruiz is a GVA Excellence researcher at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Universitat de València.

Nicolás Sanchis-Gual is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Universitat de València.

Samuel Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat de València.

Alejandro Torres Forné is an Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Valencia. He received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Valencia in 2018, and he held a postdoctoral position in the same department until his promotion in 2020. His research is primarily focused on core-collapse supernovae in the context of gravitational-wave and multimessenger astronomy. He is a member of the Virgo Collaboration where he has contributed to the search and analysis of gravitational-wave signals from supernovae. He is the convener of the Supernova working group at the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board, and co-coordinator of the working group on Transients at the Einstein Telescope Collaboration.