{"id":1366,"date":"2013-09-25T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/?page_id=1366"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:04:54","slug":"lola-balaguer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/?page_id=1366","title":{"rendered":"Lola Balaguer-N\u00fa\u00f1ez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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lbalaguer<\/td>\n\"(at)fqa.ub.edu\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Office number:<\/strong> 709 (7th floor new Physics building)<\/p>\n

Telephone number:<\/strong> +34 93 402 11 26<\/p>\n

Task:<\/strong> Senior researcher, group manager<\/p>\n

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Lola Balaguer-N\u00fa\u00f1ez joined Gaia on the summer of 2007 as the manager of the Barcelona team (Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya<\/a>) in charge of the 30-people team contracts & activities, applications & reports for Spanish Ministry & European organizations, accountancy, organization of meetings & workshops, planning (funds, venues, people), documentation (reports, webpages). She is also involved in smaller projects related to Gaia like the Spanish network of science exploitation of Gaia (REG<\/a>), light pollution (Gaia for Sustainability<\/a>) and public outreach activities of Gaia (Gaia UB Twitter<\/a>) and of astronomy in general at the Institut de Ci\u00e8ncies del Cosmos<\/a> – UB (ServiAstro<\/a>).<\/p>\n

She studied Theoretical Physics and Chinese at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid<\/a> and completed her PhD on astrophysics at the Universitat de Barcelona<\/a> after a world wide tour of many years: one at the Beijing Language and Culture University<\/a>, three at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory<\/a> as the first foreign student of Astronomy in China, and some Marie Curie stays at the IoA<\/a> in Cambridge. After returning to Spain she has worked as a translator, interpreter & teacher of Chinese in different universities, as a Physics lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona and coordinating seminars and conferences at Casa Asia<\/a> in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Her research interests are related to astrometry (Clusterix<\/a>), spectroscopy (OCCASO) and photometry of open clusters and she is also part of the CU9 of Gaia DPAC. She is also very interested in Sustainability, is co-chair of the Spanish Astronimical Society SEA Cero CO2 Working Group<\/a> and has been the co-chair of the Sustainability Advisory Group of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) until Jun 2022<\/a>, and is a member of Astronomers for Planet Earth (A4E)<\/a>. Other interests include sailing, travelling, languages, literature and the Chinese history of science.<\/p>\n

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