01/10/2019 - Present - Madrid, Spain

Science Operations Development Manager for Ariel and SMILE missions

European Space Agency

• Responsible for designing and implementing the ESA-funded science operations systems for the Ariel and SMILE science missions

• Manager of the Science Operations Teams for Ariel and SMILE missions

• Chair of the SMILE Data Formats and Calibration Working Group

• Chair of the Ariel Science Ground Segment Management Group

• Mentor of ESA trainees

01/11/2012 - Present - Madrid, Spain & Baltimore, USA

Science Operations Scientist for James Webb Space Telescope mission

European Space Agency

• Subject matter expert on NIRSpec spectrograph calibration, commissioning activities and data analysis
• Test shift-lead on NIRSpec ground-test campaigns and operational rehearsals
• Involved in JWST community engagement activities
• Additional responsibilities while outposted at Space Telescope Science Institute (USA) between 2015 and 2019:
  • Calibration lead for the NIRSpec instrument
  • Project manager for development of commissioning software tools
  • Liaison with JWST operations centre for implementation of pipeline algorithms
• Member of ESA Science Operations research fellowship selection committee
• Research activities on low-mass star formation in nearby young stellar clusters

01/12/2011 - 01/10/2012 - Madrid,Spain

ESA Research Fellow

European Space Agency

• Research on Herschel surveys of filaments and disks in star forming regions

• Lead organizer of Star and planet formation workshop, ESAC, 2013

• Lead organizer of Astronomical programming in Python, ESAC, 2012

• Visiting observer at the NTT Telescope in La Silla, Chile (2012)

• Member of the ESAC Faculty Council (2011 - 2015)

• Co-mentor of ESAC trainee working on discs around young stars

01/11/2008 - 31/10/2011 - Grenoble, France

Marie-Curie Fellow

Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble

• Principal investigator for large imaging and spectroscopic surveys of star forming regions

• Visiting observer at the Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile (2009, 2010)

• Visiting observer at the NTT Telescope in La Silla, Chile (2009)

• Visiting observer at the TNG Telescope in Gran Canarias, Spain (2009)

• Co-organizer of Recipes for making brownies (brown dwarfs), ESTEC, 2009

01/09/2005 - 30/09/2008 - Munich, Germany

Graduate student, International Max-Planck Research School on Astrophysics

European Southern Observatory

• Research on infrared variability of young stellar objects

• Junior member of HAWK-I instrument development & commissioning team

• Supported commissioning of HAWK-I instrument at the Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile (2007)

• Visiting observer at the NTT Telescope in La Silla, Chile (2007)

01/05/2005 - 31/07/2005 - Cape Town, South Africa

Research internship

Southern African Astronomical Observatory

• Research on asteroseismology of Ap stars

• Principal observer at the 0.75m telescope, Sutherland, South Africa (2005)

01/06/2003 - 31/08/2003 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Research Assistant

Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, Astronomy Technology Centre

• Research on debris disks around stars