PEDRO J. GUTIERREZ.
Solar System Department. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía. CSIC.

 

 

 

 

 

Education.


1996. BSc in Physics.

University of Granada.

2001. PhD. in Physics.
University of Granada.

Professional experience


1997.
Predoctoral grant of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía.

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC.

1998/2001.
Predoctoral grant of the spanish ministry of Science and Technology
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC.

2002.
Posdoctoral fellow of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía.

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC.

Posdoctoral fellow of the spanish ministry of Education, C. and D.
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille-CNRS.

2003/2004.
European Space Agency external fellowship.

Laboratoire d’AStrophysique de Marseille-CNRS.

2005/2006 Contract “Juan de la Cierva”
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC.

2007- Contract “Ramón y Cajal”.
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC.

Publications.


Co-author of more than 30 publications in journals with referee included in SCI.

Co-author of more than 40 posters and talks in international conferences.

 

Projects.


P.I of the project “Ices in the Solar System”
funded by the Programa Intramural de Frontera-2005 del CSIC.
11/05-04/08.


Co-Investigator of the instrument OSIRIS (“Optical, Spectroscopic and
Infrared Remote Imaging System”), European Space Agency ROSETTA mission.
Cooperation with the Instituto Nacional
de Técnica Aeroespacial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Max-Planck Institute für Sonnensystemforschung (Germany),
Universita di Padova (Italy), Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatiale (France),
Astronosmiska Observatoriet (Sweden) y European Space Research
and Technology Center (ESA, Netherlands).
Since 2005.


Co-Investigator of 7 projects funded by regional or national governments.
1997-2007.

Thesis.

Supervisor of the thesis “Thermophysical evolution of cometary nuclei”
by Marta González. Started in 2006.

Stays in foreign research institutions.

ESA-ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Centre). 1998. 3 months.
Development of a Montecarlo model for cometary coma.

MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUER AERONOMIE. 2000. 2 months.
Development of a model of cometary rotational evolution.

MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUER AERONOMIE. 2001. 1 month.
Development of software related to OSIRIS.

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille. 2002. 2.6 years
Mainly devoted to the study of the sublimation of gasses in the evolution of the rotational states
of cometary nuclei. Estimation of density of various comets


MAX PLANCK INSTUT FUER SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG. 2005. 2 weeks.
Training with OSIRIS (Rosetta).

MAX PLANCK INSTUT FUER SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG 2005. 2 weeks.
Analysis of the imagens taken with Osiris (Rosetta) of the Deep Impact experiment.

UNIVERSIDAD DE UPPSALA. 2005. 2 weeks.
Cooperation to estimate the density of comet 9P/Tempel 1.

Committees.


2006/2007. Observatorio de Sierra Nevada (IAA-CSIC) Time Allocation Committee.


2007- Member of the scientific committee of PANIC(Instrument for the 2.2m telescope of Calar Alto)

2006- Member of the scientific committee of SIDE. (Instrument for Grantecán)

2007. Member of the scientific committee of the International Conference on
Crystal Growth and Chemist of Ice Thin Films under Extreme Conditions.
Maón. Menorca. 26-28, April, 2007.

Referee.


Icarus
, Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

Outreach.

Publications (in Spanish)

El cometa Ikeya nos visita.
Periódico Ideal. 27 Marzo 2002

Radiantes bolas de nieve. (Con Silbila López de la Calle)
Periódico Granada-Hoy. 8 Diciembre 2004

El planeta que no fue. (Con Silbila López de la Calle)
Periódico Granada-Hoy. 15 Diciembre 2004

Una nueva visita cometaria.
Revista IAA. N 7

Indagando en el corazón de un cometa (con Luisa M. Lara).
Revista IAA. N 17.

Qué fueron, qué son y qué serán los cometas (I,II,III) (Con Rafael Rodrigo).
Tribuna de Astronomía y Universo. Nº 53, 54 y 56.

CONFERENCES (in Spanish)

Deep Impact, ¡Diana!.
IAA. 27.Octubre.2005

Propiedades y características de los cuerpos menores.
1 Conferencia Técnica de Observación astronómica. Murcia, 13,14-Octubre-2006.


Membership


Division for Planetary Sciences de la American Astronomical Society (2003-...)