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Jose Carlos Guirado carried out the thesis work at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) in close collaboration with the radio astronomy groups at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR, Germany) and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA). In 1994, he obtained his PhD from the University of Granada with the thesis “Absolute Internal Proper Motion in Quasars”. He was awarded a US National Research Council postdoctoral associateship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, USA; 1994-1997). He returned to the University of Valencia (UV) as a contracted researcher, and, in 2001, secured an Assistant Professor (Profesor Titular) position in the Department of Astronomy. Full Professor (Catedrático) since 2019, he served as Director of the UV Astronomical Observatory from 2013 to 2020.

His research focuses primarily on high-angular-resolution and high-sensitivity studies of galactic and extragalactic objects using very-long-baseline interferometry in both radio (VLBI) and infrared. This work covers several lines: (1) microarcsecond-precision astrometry of AGNs; (2) early radio observations of supernovae and long-term monitoring of their evolution and expansion; and (3) the study of radio emission from pre-main-sequence, low-mass objects, including brown dwarfs and exoplanets. He’s been also engaged in the development of new interferometric facilities, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Bibliometric records includes more than 80 articles in JCR-indexed journals—five of them in Nature and Science—over 70 conference contributions, more than 2,000 citations, and h-index of 25.

Since 1997, he regularly teaches in the degrees of Physics, Mathematics, and Journalism at the UV. He has supervised two PhD theses to completion: that of Rebecca Azulay Romero, “Radio emission of binary stars in the AB Doradus moving group” (Universitat de València, 2016), which received the highest distinction, Sobresaliente cum laude, along with the Extraordinary Award of the Faculty of Physics (2018); and that of Juan Bautista Climent Oliver, “Radio and infrared interferometry of stellar and substellar objects” (Universitat de València, 2020), also awarded Sobresaliente cum laude.

IP of European/National/State Research Projects during the last 20 years. Chair or co-chair of the SOC/LOC of 5 international conferences, including the EAS of 2022, the largest european astronomer conference. Numerous outreach activities, including a long-term contract agreement UV / Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia for the loan of two pictures of Goya for public exhibition, in quality of Secretary of the Fundación Tarazona Blanch.