Group Members

José Antonio Font (PI 1). Full Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Valencia. Font also has a second affiliation at the Astronomical Observatory of the same university. Prior to these appointments Font conducted post-doctoral research at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam (Germany) and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (Germany). Member of the Virgo Collaboration since July 2016 and coordinator of the activities of the Valencia Virgo Group. His research deals with the study of some of the most exotic phenomena existing in the Universe such as black holes and neutron stars. These systems are the main targets for ground-based laser interferometers of gravitational radiation. The direct detection of these elusive ripples in the curvature of spacetime, and the wealth of new astrophysical information that can potentially be extracted thereof, is the main driving motivation of his research.

Manel Perucho (PI 2). Associate professor at the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, in the Faculty of Physics of the University of València. Perucho's research is focused on astrophysical scenarios related to relativistic hydrodynamics. These include extragalactic jets from active galactic nuclei, and outflows in both X-ray binary stars and gamma-ray binary stars. Specifically, I use relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (RMHD) numerical codes to study extragalactic jet evolution and propagation and morphology, the influence of jets on the evolution of the host active galaxy, parsec-scale jet physics (emission processes, flow dynamics), microquasar jets, and pulsar wind-stellar wind interaction in gamma-ray binaries. I also participate in observational campaigns using radio interferometry techniques (Very Long Baseline Interferometry, VLBI) in collaboration with radioastronomers from different institutions to complement and test my theoretical studies. Outreach: https://blogs.metode.cat/blog/univers-violent/

Pablo Cerdá Durán. Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and member of the Astronomical Observatory of the UV. Defended his PhD thesis in Valencia and, after a 5 year post-doctoral period at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (Germany) he returned to Valencia. Member of the Virgo since 2016 and coordinator of the Einstein Telescope Research Unit at at the UV. He is interested not only in gravitational waves but also on the numerical modelling of neutron stars in all their aspects: formation at supernovae, isolated objects and binary mergers.

Isabel Cordero Carrión. Associate professor in the Mathematics Department of the University of Valencia. External practices coordinator of the Mathematics degree. Her research lines are applied mathematics and computational astrophysics, with special interest in the development of numerical methods to solve partial differential equations, numerical relativity and gravitational waves. Member of the Virgo Collaboration and current Virgo outreach coordinator.

José María Martí. Full professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Valencia. His research interests include the simulation of relativistic outflows in astrophysical scenarios, specifically extragalacatic jets at sub-parsec, parsec and kiloparsec scales, and the development of computational methods for relativistic hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. Person in charge of the Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology group (CompAC) at the University of Valencia (GIUV2013-047).

Susana Planelles. Associate professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of València and member of the Astronomical Observatory of the same university. Her research interests are framed within the field of Computational Cosmology and, in particular, in the development and analysis of large cosmological simulations with the aim of exploring the formation and evolution of the large scale structure of the Universe and the main thermodynamical properties of galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Vicent Quilis. Full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Universitat de València. His research interests lie in the field of Computational Cosmology specially focused in the development of advanced mathematical models and computational methods to solve complex physical problems. He has used numerical simulations to study several cosmological scenarios, ranging from large-scale structure of the Universe, galaxy clusters, galaxy formation and evolution, to gravitational waves in a cosmological context.

Alejandro Torres. Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and member of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of València. His career has focused on the field of gravitational-wave astronomy, encompassing various aspects of this discipline. This includes the numerical modeling of waveforms emitted by astrophysical sources, with a particular interest in supernovae, the classification and mitigation of noise transients (glitches) in the data streams of the LIGO and Virgo interferometers, and the development of methods and algorithms for the detection, reconstruction, and analysis of gravitational-wave signals.

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