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Jordi Casanellas
Curriculum Vitae
Albert Einstein Institute
Am Mühlenberg 1
14467 Potsdam-Golm (GER)
H +49 176 95387716
T +49 331 567 7317
B [email protected]
Í www.aei.mpg.de/~jordi
Place and date of birth: Barcelona, August 13th, 1983
Updated on January 16, 2015
Present position
from Jan 2014
Humboldt Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert
Einstein Institute), Potsdam (Berlin), Germany.
Education
2009–2012
PhD Degree on Physics (with Distinction), Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical
University of Lisbon. Title of the PhD Thesis: Stars as cosmological tools: giving light
to dark matter. Supervisor: Prof. Ilídio Lopes, Graduated in December 2012.
2007
Certificate of Teaching Proficiency, Institute of Education Sciences, Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain.
2007
Degree on Physics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
2006
Erasmus student, FCUL, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
European university exchange program
Awards & Fellowships
2013
2012
Humboldt Research Fellowship, (2yr), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Distinction in the PhD Graduation, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
2009
Gulbenkian Prize for Young Researchers, Program for the Stimulus of Creativity and
Quality in Scientific Research, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, (12.500 e).
2009
Ph.D. National Fellowship, (4yr), Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal.
Research fellowship for graduates, (1yr), FCT, Portugal.
2008
2007
Collaboration fellowship, (1yr), Technologies of Information and Communication
Area, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
2006
Erasmus fellowship, (1yr), European Union Lifelong Learning Programme.
Refereed Publications
Follow this link for an up-to-date list of my publications and citations.
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Chapters in books
astro-ph /
1412.6040
[9] J. Afonso, J. Casanellas, I. Prandoni et al., “Identifying the first generation of
radio powerful AGN in the Universe with the SKA”, SKA Science Book. To be published
in Proceedings of Science, 2014.
astro-ph /
1501.00281
[8] R. Eatough, T. Lazio, J. Casanellas et al., “Observing Radio Pulsars in the
Galactic Centre with the Square Kilometre Array”, SKA Science Book. To be published
in Proceedings of Science, 2014.
Articles
astro-ph /
1411.6807
[7] Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “The Sun and stars: Giving light to dark matter”,
Modern Physics Letters A, Volume 29, 37, 2014.
astro-ph /
1212.2985
[6] Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “First asteroseismic limits on the nature of dark
matter”, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 765, L21, 2013.
astro-ph, gr-qc/
1109.0249
[5] Jordi Casanellas, Paolo Pani, Ilídio Lopes, Vitor Cardoso, “Testing alternative
theories of gravity using the Sun”, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 745, 15, 2012.
astro-ph /
1104.5465
[4] Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Signatures of dark matter burning in nuclear star
clusters”, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 733, L51, 2011.
astro-ph /
1102.2907
[3] Ilídio Lopes, Jordi Casanellas, Daniel Eugénio, “The capture of dark matter
particles through the evolution of low-mass stars”, Physical Review D, Volume 83, Issue
6, id. 063521, 2011.
astro-ph /
1008.0646
[2] Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Towards the use of asteroseismology to investigate
the nature of dark matter”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume
410, pp. 535-540, 2011.
astro-ph /
0909.1971
[1] Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “The formation and evolution of young low-mass
stars within halos with high concentration of dark matter particles”, The Astrophysical
Journal, Volume 705, pp. 135-143, 2009.
Proceedings
astro-ph /
1307.6519
Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Constraints on asymmetric dark matter from asteroseismology”, Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI Conference, Lisbon,
Portugal, IOP Conference Series, 2013.
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Vitor Cardoso, Jordi Casanellas, Paolo Pani, Ilídio Lopes, Terence Delsate, “Stars
in alternative theories of gravity”, Proceedings of The Multidisciplinary Universe Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
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Ilídio Lopes, Jordi Casanellas, “The Sun and stars: giving light to dark matter”,
Proceedings of The Multidisciplinary Universe Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.
astro-ph /
1002.2326
Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Low-mass stars within dense dark matter halos”,
Proceedings of the Invisible Universe International Conference, Paris, France, 2009.
Posters
2013
Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Asteroseismic diagnostic of the interactions between
dark matter and baryons”, Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI (EPS Conference), Lisbon,
Portugal.
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2010
Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Giving light to dark matter using stars”, The Abdus
Salam ICTP Summer School in Cosmology, Trieste, Italy.
2010
Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “Stellar diagnostic of the nature of dark matter”, TeV
Particle Astrophysics 2010, Paris, France.
2008
Jordi Casanellas, Ilídio Lopes, “The evolution of low-mass stars within halos of high
concentration of dark matter particles”, CRAL-IPNL Conference 2008. Dark Energy
and Dark Matter, Lyon, France.
Selected talks in Conferences and Invited Seminars
2014
The Space Photometry Revolution, Toulouse, France.
2014
Astroparticle Physics (joint TeVPA/IDM conference), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2014
Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, Sicily, Italy.
Seminar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
CAUP Seminar, Porto, Portugal.
IFIC Seminar, UVEG-CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
ICC Seminar, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia.
AEI Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany.
UCD Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Dublin, Ireland.
CAAUL Seminars, Lisbon, Portugal.
VIIth Iberian Cosmology Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.
IEEC Weekly Colloquium, Barcelona, Catalonia.
IDPASC Dark Matter Workshop, Évora, Portugal.
CENTRA Seminar, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.
7th TeVPA Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Swiss Institute for Particle Physics PhD Winter School, Ascona, Switzerland.
The Invisible Universe International Conference, Paris, France.
PASC Winter School, Sesimbra, Portugal.
XIX Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica, Aveiro, Portugal.
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2009
2009
Experience
Research
from 2014
2013
2009-2012
2008
2007
Humboldt Research Fellow, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany.
Postdoctoral Researcher, CAAUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
FCT PhD Fellow, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
Research Fellow, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
Assistant, Technologies of Information and Comunication Area, Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain, Supervisor: Eng. José Luis Cuevas Martínez.
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Grant Referee
since 2011
Romanian National Research Council, IDEAS and Human Resources Programs.
Participation in Research Projects
2013
FCT, PTDC/FIS/100170/2008: On the pathway to SKA: science with the next generation of radio telescopes, PI: Mário Santos.
2010
Gulbenkian Foundation, Giving light to dark matter using stars as laboratories of physics.
FCT, PDCT/CTE-AST/57558/2004: Stellar seismology, PI: Ilídio Lopes.
2008
Student supervision
2013
Supervisor of Master Thesis, Dark matter and red giants, Carmen Ricote, MSc in
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Valencian International University, Spain.
2013
Supervisor of Master Thesis, Dark matter and low-Z stars, Alexandra González, MSc
in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Valencian International University, Spain.
Teaching
2013
Quantum Structure of Matter, MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Instituto Superior
Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
2012
Mini-course within the Astrophysics Laboratory course, MSc in Physics Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
2012
Mechanics and Waves, BSc in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
2012
Mini-course within the Astrophysics course, MSc in Physics Engineering, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
2011
IDPASC PhD Dark Matter School, Teaching Assistant, The International Doctorate
Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Évora, Portugal.
Outreach activities
2014
2014
2014
Outreach videos, About dark matter (link) and the music of stars (link).
Science Communication, 2nd place in the German Final of Famelab, Germany.
Science Slammer, 1st place in the #7 Science Slam, Potsdam, Germany.
2014
Bulletin of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Las estrellas como laboratorios cosmológicos: iluminando la materia oscura.
2012
TV documentary, Participation in the planning of the episode Formation, life and
death of stars, RTP2 Portuguese Television.
2012
Website & Blog, DescubreelUniverso.weebly.com.
Languages
English:
Fluent
German:
Intermediate
Spanish:
Native
French:
Intermediate
Portuguese:
Fluent
Catalan:
Native
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Computer skills
Programming:
Fortran, C++, Bash, Phyton
Scientific SW:
Mathematica, Matlab
Other softwares:
LATEX, Gnuplot, Office
O.S.:
Linux, Windows, Mac
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