Fernando Fabián Rosales Ortega
Ph.D. Cantab, FRAS
| Positions held | Research staff, 2012-present | |
| Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica | ||
| Tonantzintla, Mexico | ||
| Postdoctoral associate, 2011-2012 | ||
| Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | ||
| and Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto | ||
| Madrid and Almería, Spain | ||
| Postdoctoral associate, 2010-2011 | ||
| Centro de Astrobiología, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial | ||
| Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | ||
| Madrid, Spain | ||
| Education | 2010, Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| Project: Multi-dimensional analysis of chemical and physical properties of spiral galaxies | ||
| Supervisor: Prof. Robert C. Kennicut | ||
| Member of Trinity College | ||
| CONACyT full scholarship | ||
| 2006, M.Sc. in Astrophysics, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico | ||
| Project: Determination of primordial helium abundance from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data | ||
| Supervisors: Dr. Roberto Terlevich and Dr. Elena Terlevich | ||
| CONACyT full scholarship | ||
| 2004, Bachelor in Physics Ad Honorem, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico | ||
| Project: Determination of primordial helium abundance | ||
| Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Terlevich | ||
| BUAP Board of Studies scholarship for high academic achievement | ||
| 2000, International Baccalaureate, United World College of the Adriatic, Italy | ||
| Extended Essay: Determination of Stellar Temperatures of Hot Sub-Luminous Stars | ||
| Supervisor: Miguel Chávez Dagostino | ||
| Full scholarship | ||
| Honours and Awards | Candidato a Investigador Nacional, 2011-2013 | |
| Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, CONACyT, Mexico | ||
| Postdoctoral grant, 2011 | ||
| Consolidación de Grupos de Investigación, CONACyT, Mexico | ||
| The Paris Pişmiş Prize | ||
| For the best Mexican M.Sc. thesis in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Science in 2006-2007 | ||
| Scientific Committee of the XXII National Astronomical Meeting, April 2008 | ||
| SEP Excellence programme scholarship | ||
| Dirección General de Relaciones Internacionales, Mexico 2007-2009 | ||
| Rouse Ball and Eddington Research Fund grant | ||
| Trinity College, 2007-2008 | ||
| Latinoamerican-European Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology grant | ||
| Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham, 2006 | ||
| Special Acknowledgment, Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2005 | ||
| Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud and SEP, Mexico | ||
| International Astronomical Union grant | ||
| Latin-American Regional IAU Meeting, Pucón, Chile 2005 | ||
| First Class Honours Acknowledgment | ||
| Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, 2005 | ||
| Special Acknowledgment, Premio Nacional de la Juventud 2003 | ||
| Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud and SEP, Mexico | ||
| Sponsorship grant, Mexican Embassy in the Holy See | ||
| Ambassador: Dr. Fernando Estrada Sámano, 2003 | ||
| Sponsorship grant, Government of the State of Puebla, Mexico | ||
| Governor: Lic. Melquiades Morales Flores, 2003 | ||
| IX Vatican Observatory Summer School scholarship | ||
| Pontifical Palace of Castelgandolfo, Rome, Italy 2003 | ||
| La ciencia en tus manos grant 2002, 2003 | ||
| Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico | ||
| International Undergraduate Summer School on Particle Physics and Astronomy, 2001 | ||
| Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, PPARC, UK | ||
| Hosted by the Cavendish Laboratory, the Institute of Astronomy and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge | ||
| United World College of the Adriatic scholarship | ||
| Italian Ministry of Education. Scholarship awarded in order to course the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Italy, 1998-2000 | ||
| Professional memberships | Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, UK | |
| Fellow of the Cambridge University Philosophical Society, UK | ||
| Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Mexico | ||
| Affiliations | President, Local Organising Committee, 7th MexSocUK symposium, 2009 | |
| President, Cambridge University Mexican Society (CUMexSoc, 2007-2008) | ||
| General Secretary of the Mexican Student Society in the UK (MexSocUK, 2006-2007) | ||
| Languages | Spanish (native), English and Italian (fluent), French and Portuguese (basic) | |
| Programming | IDL (good), Perl, Shell and Phyton (basic) | |
| Other interests | Sports (a lot!), music, photography, dancing, history of art, history of religions, economics, politics | |