Our team got the City of Barcelona award 2013

Were are happy! Our GaiaUB group is the winner of the City of Barcelona award 2013 in the category “Experimental Sciences and Technology”.

The jury (Josep Amat, David Jou, Víctor Puntes, David Serrat i Fernando Albericio) gave the award to our team because of “the contribution, from the beginning, to the concept and design of the Gaia mission, satellite succesfully launched on 19th desember 2013 to perform a 3D map of the Milky Way”. The team did important contributions to the simulations module, processing and management of the data obtained from the satellite, and the treatment of the photometric data.

This award is conceided by the Barcelona City Hall every year to recognize the creation, research and quality production done in Barcelona city.