X-ray binaries are excellent laboratories to study the physics of relativistic stars. On the one hand, they provide robust evidence for the existence of black holes (BHs), the pinnacle of extreme gravity. On the other, they allow investigations on neutron stars (NS) the densest form of matter known. In addition, accretion on matter (provided by the

Ramón y Cajal contract to develop his research work in the specific research project Galaxy Formation in the Big-Ddata Era

The EU-funded GALSIZE project aims to I) establish a new paradigm of galaxy data-model comparisons, II) characterize the nature of, and coupling between, dark and luminous matter in galaxies, with the aid of scaling relations, mass tracers, and numerical simulations, and III) expand model inferences into the uncharted realm of low-mass galaxies. To

Our novel project principally comprises mobilities which form the backbone of a programme for educating new leaders in astronomical research through international collaboration across old and new EU member states. This new project will make use of our previous successful partnership "Per Aspera Ad Astra Simul" which initiated these collaborations

Contract Ramón y Cajal to develop his research work in the specific research project "Weak decays of hadrons as laboratories of New Physics and QCD".

This research project aims at combining expertise in high performance com- puting (HPC), in theoretical spectropolarimetry, and in the numerical methods for the solution of the radiative transfer (RT) problem for polarized radiation under non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) conditions, in order to de- velop and apply novel diagnostic tools