CVOPTICON is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative of the 6th EU I+D+i framework programme for improving the coordination of the European astronomical community in the fields of infrared, optics and solar physics. The OPTICON project which is coordinated by the University of Cambridge and financed by the European Commission, has the objective of

The main objective of the program is to generate a team of engineers with a high technical training oriented to development of advanced technological products that impact on the market and in a possible commercial exploitation in different sectors of scientific instrumentation. All this through the hiring of postgraduates, both seniors and juniors

Contract Ramón y Cajal to develop his research work in the specific research project "Feeding and hiding the monster: Triggering and obscuring the central engine of active galaxies"

Low- to intermediate-mass (M < 8 solar masses, Ms) stars represent the majority of stars in the Cosmos. They finish their lives on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) - just before they form planetary nebulae (PNe) - where they experience complex nucleosynthetic and molecular processes. AGB stars also experience strong mass loss, efficiently

Black-holes and neutron stars are extremely important astrophysical objects, which become unique laboratories of extreme physics when found within X-ray binaries. Their study provides high-impact results, which are relevant for many astrophysics and fundamental physics areas. Our project target fundamental properties of both the accretion process

We propose to investigate fundamental questions concerning the formation and evolution of galaxies, from the smallest galactic scales to those of large spiral galaxies, by adopting the approach of galactic archaeology. By determining the ages, metallicities and kinematics of individual stars, in particular low-mass stars, whose life-times are