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Jiménez Tellado, Raúl
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Prof. Raúl Jiménez obtained his PhD at the Niels Bohr Institute in 1995, he then moved to the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh were he held a PPARC Advanced Fellowship. He then moved to the US where he joined the faculty, as a professor, of the Physics & Astronomy departments of Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Sciences of the Cosmos (ICCUB). He has made several contributions to our understanding of the universe, among them: the first evidence of dark energy from the ages of high redshift galaxies and globular clusters, the origin of dark galaxies, the first evidence of how galaxies are assembled as a function of cosmic time and on the nature of dark energy.
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Research Interests
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Prof. Raúl Jiménez is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in a number of problems in astrophysics and cosmology. His fields of research include: the formation and evolution of galaxies, stellar evolution, the cosmic microwave background, dark energy and the origin of the universe.
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Key Words
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Cosmology; Astrophysics
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