Fitxa persona

Full Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Valencia (UV). Aloy developed his early postdoctoral career over five years at the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik (MPA; Germany) where he obtained funding through a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. Subsequently, he returned to the University of Valencia under a Ramón y Cajal Researcher contract (2005–2010).. He has been uninterruptedly funded by extremely competitive international programs (success rate ≲10%). Bibliometric data: h-index=62 (NASA/ADS), >25700 citations, 224 publications (136 refereed; 41 first author; >126 Q1). Publication list: https://go.uv.es/A68B1Oq

Aloy has given 15 invited research seminars in national and international centers and 147 participations (43 invited) in international scientific congresses, and has been part of the organizing and scientific committees of various international congresses. He has participated in research projects funded by the Spanish Government (projects of the National Plan AYA 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2015 -IP-, 2018, 2021-IP-) and the project CONSOLIDER2007-00050 (of which he has been coordinator of the Astrophysics and Cosmology groups from 2011 to 2013), the German Government (SFB 375, SFB/TR-7), the Generalitat Valenciana (GVPROMETEO2009-103, PROMETEOII / 2014-069, PROMETEO/2019/071, CIPROM/2022/13-coIP-, ASFAE/2022/026-IP-), and the European Union (HPRN- CT-2000- 00137). Aloy was awarded with an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant in the 2010 call (StG-ERC-259276- CAMAP; Mar. 2011- Feb. 2017), where the success rate was ≲17% for applications in Physical Sciences. He obtained >50 Mhr of computing time from the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES; last 10 years). Aloy, applied together with Profs. H.-Th. Janka, T. Foglizzo and G. Meynet to an ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2019-SyG-856588-STARBLASTS). The team passed all evaluation phases, but not having obtained funding (we were left on the reserve list) due to having fallen just below the threshold for funding. Aloy is a member of the Virgo scientific collaboration since January 2017. He is also member of the Spanish Astronomical Society (since 1997) and of the IAU (since 2018). Multidisciplinary research: Aloy has applied the know-how acquired in the research on compact relativistic objects to the study of the mechanical properties of the human eye (ASTROEYE project, financed by the Spanish MINECO - SAF2013-49284-EXP). Currently, Aloy holds 4 research sexenia.

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2023-25: Manager of the Astronomy and Astrophysics sub-area of the AEI
2021-23: Research Committee Member of the UV
2021-23: Users Committee Head of the RES - Member 2015-2023
2020 –  : Coordinator of the committee for access supercomputing resources of the UV - Member since 2017
2015     : Committee Member for Curriculum Elaboration of the Master in Data Science, UV
2014-18: Academic Committee Member of the Telecommunications Engineering Degrees, UV
2011-13: Astrophysics and Cosmology group Coordinator of the project “Consolider: Supercom-puting and e-Science”

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2021/22: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain – Scientific Evaluator (SE)
2016/18: Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP), Spain – SE
2016-17: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), EU – SE
2011/16: PRACE, EU – Prioritization panel member (PPM)
2010     : Greek system of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Greece – SE
2007     : Centres of Excellence, KUL, Belgium – SE
2007     : Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France – SE
2004 –  : Reviewer of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal (x4), The Astrophysical Journal (x13), Classic and Quantum Gravity journal (x1), The Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society (x8), Reports on Progress in Physics journal (x1), Journal of Computational Physics (x2), Computation Astrophysics and Cosmology journal (x1), New Astronomy journal (x1).

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS
2008-25: 9 Postdocs, 10 PhD (4 ongoing), 7 Master students. DAA, University of Valencia, Spain

2001-07: 3 PhD, 3 Master Students (co-supervision). MPA, Germany