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

Juan Fabregat Llueca holds a PhD in Physical Sciences and is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Valencia. He was Head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics from 1996 to 1999 and Director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia from 2008 to 2010. He has also worked at the Universities of Southampton and Hertfordshire, UK, and at the Paris Observatory, France. He has published over one hundred research papers in international journals and conferences and has supervised eight doctoral theses.

He completed his PhD thesis at the University of Valencia (2003–2006) under the supervision of J.A. Font. After two postdoctoral contracts at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (2006–2011) and in the ERC CAMAP group at UV (2011–2017), he obtained a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2017–2022). He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the UV.

He is involved in gravitational-wave observation as a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration through the Valencia Virgo Group, of which he has been a member since 2016. He also participates in the development of the Einstein Telescope, the third generation of gravitational-wave detectors. His interests in the field of relativistic astrophysics include the numerical modelling of core-collapse supernovae, magnetized neutron stars and binary neutron star mergers, with special focus on magneto-hydrodynamical turbulence, instabilities and neutron star oscillations.

He has published more than 70 papers (excluding large collaborations), has an h-index of 74 and over 50.000 citations (h-index=31 and 3500 citations, excluding LVK papers), among them 4 PRL, 1 ApJL and 1 Nature (excluding LVK). He has been plenary speaker in international conferences in 18 occasions and has been invited to give seminars more than 20 times. He has been co-PI of two research projects of the Spanish Ministry, has led the Working Group 4 within the COST Action PHAROS, served as Coordinator of Division 7 of the ET Observational Science Board, and is the leader of the research Unit of the University of Valencia in the ET Collaboration.

He has been continuously teaching at UV since 2011, including the Bachelor’s Degree in Physics (and the two associated double degrees), the Master’s Degree in Advanced Physics, and the Bachelor’s Degree in Telematics Engineering. His teaching has included courses such as General Physics III, General Relativity (Master), and Mechanics Laboratory. He has co-supervised 9 PhD theses and is currently supervising another 3, in addition to numerous Master’s and Bachelor’s theses.

Between 2021 and 2024 he served as Department Academic Secretary, and since 2024 he has been the Head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

[Biography, english version]

I hold a degree in Physics and a PhD in Physics (specializing in Astrophysics) from the University of Valencia (UV). During my doctoral studies, I completed research stays in England and Italy. After eight years of postdoctoral experience, divided between the Universities of Trieste and Valencia, I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UV.

My research focuses on the field of Computational Cosmology and, in particular, on the analysis of the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Around this main research line, I work on other closely related topics, such as the development of numerical methods for cosmology, the study of hydrodynamical processes and N-body simulations, the identification of dark matter halos, the large-scale structure of the Universe, the thermodynamics of the intracluster medium, cosmological shock waves, and the identification and characterization of cosmic voids.

In addition to my research activity, my teaching is mainly carried out in the Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and in the Master’s Degree in Advanced Physics at UV. I also undertake coordination and university management duties and frequently participate in outreach activities.