Severo Ochoa Programme

SO visitors

Enhancing existing networks of international research collaborations between the IAC staff and renowned researchers of other leading research institutions is one of the main goals of the Severo Ochoa mobility program. We are offering a SO Senior Visitor Programme at IAC for group leaders and senior staff from centers of major international relevance to visit the IAC from 1 to 12 months. Here you can find a list of researchers who joined this programme or who will join to it soon.

  • Paul Cally
    PROF. PAUL CALLY (Monash University, Australia)
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    Prof. Paul Cally is currently full Professor of Solar Physics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), position he has held since 2003. He is currently President of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Solar Activity. He obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Monash in 1980, and held
  • PETER BERZCIK
    PROF. PETER BERTSYK (Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
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    Prof. Bertsyk has developed his career as an astrophysicist researcher at the Main Astronomical Observatory (MAO) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He spends few years as a post-doctoral researcher in Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA and in Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), University of Heidelberg, Germany. In a last
  • DAISUKE KAWATA
    PROF. DAISUKE KAWATA (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK)
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    Prof. Kawata is a Professor of Astronomy at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK. He got his PhD from Tohoku University in Japan in 2000, and did his postdocs at Swinburne University in Australia and Carnegie Observatories in USA before moving to UCL in 2008. His work has a broad focus across the fields of galaxy
  • Yakiv Pavlenko
    PROF. YAKIV PAVLENKO (Main Astronomical Observatory - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
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    Prof. Pavlenko has developed his career as a researcher at the Main Astronomical Observatory (MAO) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Currently he is the Chief Research Fellow of the MAO and has the official status of the Visiting Research Fellow in the University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom). His main scientific interests are
  • Juan Cortina Blanco
    DR. JUAN CORTINA BLANCO (CIEMAT, Spain)
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    Dr. Cortina graduated and earned a PhD in Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid. His thesis focused on the study of cosmic rays with the HEGRA detectors. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Physik in Munich (1998-2002), and as a staff researcher at the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies in Barcelona (2002
  • Giuliana Fiorentino
    DR. GIULIANA FIORENTINO (INAF- Osservatorio astronomico di Roma, Italy)
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    Since 2014, she has been a researcher at the INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Rome. He got her PhD in 2006 at the University of "Roma Tor Vergata". From 2008 to 2010, she was Post Doc at the University of Groningen (Kapteyn Institute) and at the INAF- Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dallo Spazio di Bologna from 2011 to 2019. Her main