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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 Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I studied up to obtaining my PhD in physics from the National University at La Plata. After several fellowship positions (Sussex University, Inst. for Radioastronomy of Argentina, Princeton University, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab.) and long stays in a few institutions in Italy, I started a new group on astroparticle physics in Barcelona. I have received several scientific awards (among them the NASA Group Achievement Award, the ICREA Conference Award, the Shakti Duggal Award on Cosmic Ray Physics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab. Award for Excellence in Research, and the Galloni Medal in Physics from the Academy of Sciences of Argentina). As a member of the Fermi-LAT collaboration, I also shared the 2011 Rossi Prize in Astrophysics. Apart from many large-collaboration works, I have published 140+ papers, the latter have h=34 and 4700+ citations.
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Research Interests
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The familiar sights of peacefully shining stars and galaxies would be replaced by something extreme and variable should you look with gamma-ray eyes. You would be glancing at the most energetic and violent phenomena known in astrophysics: accreting masses around black holes, dense pulsars, binaries of extraordinary power, regions of fast stellar formation, explosions of supernovae, and many others. I develop theoretical models of these scenarios, and test them with observations using ground-based telescopes and satellites. Visit my group's webpage for further accounting of my research: http://www.ice.csic.es/research/map
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KeyWords
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high energy astrophysics, astronomy, cosmic-rays, gamma-rays, neutrinos
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