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Miralda Escudé, Jordi
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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I learned physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and astronomy on my own and through some amateur associations in Catalonia. I did my PhD in astrophysics at Princeton University, graduating in 1991 with a thesis on gravitational lensing by clusters and large-scale structure. I was a postdoc at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, and a Long-Term Member at the Institute for Advanced Study. I joined the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of astrophysics in 1996, and then moved to The Ohio State University in 2000. I have been back to Catalonia with an ICREA position since 2005, where I would like to help foster the crucial conditions that I have learned are essential for achieving excellence in scientific research and the education of new scientists.
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Research Interests
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I enjoy searching for physical explanations to what we observe in the universe. My interests range over the formation of galaxies and their large-scale distribution in space, the composition and evolution of the universe as a whole, observations of the intergalactic medium that help us understand the distribution of matter in space, the physics of active galactic nuclei and the formation of massive black holes, and the formation and evolution of planets around stars. Recently I am focusing on the study of the large-scale distribution of intergalactic gas with the use of absorption spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of the SDSS-III Collaboration, which is related to both the initial conditions of the universe and the formation of galaxies.
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KeyWords
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Cosmology
Galaxy formation
Intergalactic medium
Quasars, galactic nuclei
Stellar dynamics
Planet formation
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