My research interests are focused in the study of the physical properties and evolution of massive stars. My
skills cover a broad range of competences in these topics, ranging from observations to theory, passing through
modelling and analysis aspects, and including the ability to design and implement successful observing
campaigns, as well as versatile tools for the quantitative spectroscopic analysis of large samples of OB stars.
Keywords: Stellar Astrophysics – massive OB-type stars – quantitative spectroscopy – stellar parameters and
abundances – spectroscopic surveys: IACOB, VFTS, GES, WEAVE, 4MOST – spectroscopic databases –
optical spectroscopy – stellar evolution – rotational velocities – stellar oscillations and spectroscopic
variability – massive binaries – young stellar clusters and associations – stellar atmosphere models –
atomic models – application of machine learning techniques to stellar astrophysics – exploitation of
astrometric and photometric data from the Gaia and TESS space missions – Galaxies: Milky Way and the
Large Magellanic Cloud – HII regions: physical properties and nebular abundances.
After my PhD as Resident Astrophysicist at the IAC, and working as Support Astronomer at the ING for one
year, I was awarded funding by the Spanish MEC/Fulbright program to lead the project HII regions to reveal
stellar properties during a 1+1 year stay at the Meudon and Geneva observatories, respectively. After that, I
spent 5 years on 2 postdoctoral positions at the IAC, where I took the lead of the Spanish participation in the
VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey one of the most important and productive international collaborations in the
field of massive stars. I also started building the IACOB project, an ambitious long-term project aimed at
providing an unprecedented empirical overview of the physical properties of Galactic OB-type stars which
could be used as long-standing anchor point for our theories of stellar atmospheres, winds, interiors and
evolution of massive stars. This innovative project allowed me to be awarded in 2013 one Severo Ochoa
Advanced fellowship at the IAC where later, in 2018, I became permanent staff researcher. In parallel, my
strong commitment to several international projects over the last 20 years, reinforced by many visits to
different institutions in Europe and America (Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, UK, Mexico, Switzerland,
Netherlands, USA, Chile, and Argentina), has allow me to consolidate a network of collaborations with world-
leading researchers in the field of massive stars. At present, I do not only continue leading the IACOB project,
but I am also head of the Massive Stars group at the IAC (3 staffs, 3 postdocs, 4 students), coordinator of the
working group on physical parameters and evolution of massive OB stars within the WEAVE-SCIP Survey, co-
leader of the 4MIDABLE-LR-OBstar Survey, science coordinator of the SONG network, and elected member of
the IAU G2 commission of massive stars.