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Torres, Diego F.
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ICREA Research Professor at CSIC - ICE (Institut de Ciències de l'Espai). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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I was born in Argentina, where I studied up to obtaining a PhD from the National University at La Plata. After several fellowships (Sussex University, Inst. for Radioastronomy, Princeton University, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab.) and long stays in Italy, I started a new group on astroparticle physics in Barcelona. I have received several scientific awards (among them: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, NASA Group Achievement Award, ICREA Conference Award, Shakti Duggal Award on Cosmic Ray Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab. Award for Excellence in Research, and Galloni Medal in Physics from the Academy of Sciences of Argentine). As a member of the Fermi-LAT collaboration, I shared the 2011 Rossi Prize in Astrophysics. Apart from many collaboration works, I have published 150+ papers, the latter have approximately 6000 citations towards the end of 2012.
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Research Interests
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The familiar sights of peacefully shining stars would be replaced by something extreme and variable should you look with gamma-ray eyes. You would be glancing at the most energetic phenomena known in astrophysics: accreting masses around black holes, pulsars, close binaries, regions of fast stellar formation, explosions of supernovae, and others. I develop theoretical models of these scenarios, and test them with observations using ground-based telescopes and satellites. My research group hosted 17 scientists and engineers and published 100+ papers on these topics since 2006. Also, with the auspices of IEEC-CSIC and the Sant Cugat City Hall, I started the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics in 2009. The Forum has successfully hosted two sessions, where more than 150 scientists from all over the world came together for lively workshops.
Webpages:
http://www.ice.csic.es/research/map
http://www.ice.csic.es/research/forum
http://www.ice.csic.es/personal/dtorres/
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Key Words
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high energy astrophysics, astronomy, cosmic-rays, gamma-rays, neutrinos
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