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Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics
Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica & Institut de Ciències del Cosmos Universitat de Barcelona c/ Martí i Franquès, 1 934021126 merce.romero(a)ub.edu
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The research career of the candidate started in 2002 when she began the PhD thesis. During almost 15 years, the candidate obtained the PhD thesis in 2007, which was awarded as the best thesis in ...
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The research career of the candidate started in 2002 when she began the PhD thesis. During almost 15 years, the candidate obtained the PhD thesis in 2007, which was awarded as the best thesis in science defended in 2007 in the UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), and had two postdoc positions. The first one, right after the thesis defense in the LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) in the Dynamique des Galaxies group lead by Dr. E. Athanassoula and A. Bosma. There she had a direct contact with astronomers to help to improve the knowledge derived from an interdisciplinary thesis linking both celestial mechanics and astronomy. The second postdoc is with the GaiaUB group in the UB (Universitat de Barcelona). The candidate still works in this group and has developed leading skills, supervising from final degree thesis to master thesis to PhD thesis. Her contribution in the GaiaUB group is mainly on the Galactic bar, spiral arms and warp and, more specifically, to the generation of Gaia mock catalogues using realistic models and the up-to-date Gaia performances. The position of the GaiaUB group inside the Gaia community helps in having first-hand information and being able to share it to the scientific community. During the two postdocs, the candidate has written a series of papers following , first, the research line developed in the thesis, that of the invariant manifolds as responsable of the spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies, and second, on the Gaia mock catalogues- info
Academic training
Llicenciada en Matemàtiques
. Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística
. 14/02/2002
. (Diploma / Degree / Activities)Ciencia i Tecnologia Aeroespacial
. Escola Tècnica Superior de Castelldefels
. 12/02/2007
. (Ph.D.)
Teaching imparted
Àlgebra Lineal i Geometria (Bachelor's degree) -
Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Equacions Diferencials i Càlcul Vectorial (Bachelor's degree) -
Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Astronomia Observacional. Licenciatura de Física (Bachelor's degree) -
Física -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Astronomia Galàctica (University Master's Degree) -
Astrofísica, Física de Párticulas y Cosmología -
Universidad de Barcelona.
Research interests
Investigación desde el espacio: Misión Gaia (cornerstone-6 de E.S.A.)Estructura galácticaDinámica galáctica
Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports
Bruna Font Muñoz
. (2019)
. Morphology of a warped disc from a cosmological simulation (Degree work)
. Universitat de Barcelona.
Participation in projects
CONTRIBUCION AL DESARROLLO CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE LA MISION GAIA III
.
2014 - 2015
. Ref.ESP2013-48318-C2-1-R
. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
. PI: Jorge Torra Roca; Francesc Xavier Luri CarrascosoThe Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia. The final conference of the GREAT (Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training) network
.
2014 - 2014
. Ref.FCT-14-9208
. Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia
. PI: Francesca Figueras siñolCONTRIBUCION AL DESARROLLO CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE LA MISION GAIA IV
.
2015 - 2016
. Ref.ESP2014-55996-C2-1-R
. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
. PI: Jorge Torra Roca; Francesc Xavier Luri CarrascosoAstronomia i Astrofísica (AA)
.
2017 - 2021
. Ref.2017SGR643
. Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)
. PI: Josep Maria Paredes Poy; Francesc Julbe LópezLos datos de GAIA para las próximas décadas
.
2016 - 2018
. Ref.ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R
. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
. PI: Francesc Xavier Luri Carrascoso; Carme Jordi Nebot
Journal Publications
Romero-Gómez, M., Athanassoula, E., Masdemont, J.J., García-Gómez, C.(2007).
The formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies.Astronomy & Astrophysics, 472(1), pp. 63 - 75
. http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/pdf/2007/34/aa7504-07.pdf / http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...472...63R. ISSN: 0004-6361Romero-Gómez; M.; Athanassoula, E.; Antoja, T.; Figueras, F.(2011).
Modelling the inner disc of the Milky Way with manifolds. I - A first step.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418(2), pp. 1176 - 1193
. arXiv:astro-ph (http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0660) / ADS (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011MNRAS.418.1176R). ISSN: 0035-8711Romero-Gómez, M.; Mateu, C.; Aguilar, L.; Figueras, F.; Castro-Ginard, A.(2019).
Gaia kinematics reveal a complex lopsided and twisted Galactic disc warp.Astronomy & Astrophysics, 627(A150), pp. 1 - 21
. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834908. ISSN: 0004-6361Antoja, T.; Helmi, A.; Romero-Gomez, M.; Katz, D.; Babusiaux, C.; Drimmel, R.; Evans, D. W.; Figueras, F.; Poggio, E.; Reyle, C.; Robin, A. C.; Seabroke, G.; Soubiran, C.(2018).
A dynamically young and perturbed Milky Way disk.Nature, 561, pp. 360 - 362
. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0510-7. ISSN: 0028-0836Romero-Gomez, M.;Figueras, F.; Antoja, T.; Abedi, H.; Aguilar. L.(2015).
The analysis of realistic Stellar Gaia mock catalogues. I. Red Clump stars as tracers of the central bar.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), pp. 218 - 233
. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2457. ISSN: 0035-8711