Dr. Libertat Abad Muñoz
Physical sciences, Physical Sciences and Technology
Physical sciences
Stellar and galactic systems; Science and technology
Biennial H. Vanderlinden prize for astrophysics and geophysics, Royal Academy of Belgium, 2004
Prize of the Research Council of the Leuven University: best post-doctoral researcher in Exact Science, 2005
Frans Van Cauwelaert Prize, Royal Academy of Belgium, 2013
Dutch, English, French
Member METIS science team, 2014 – now
Member UV mag science team, 2013 – now
Belgian Science co-I for SPICA/SAFARI (JAXA/ESA), 2012 – now
Co-I of the FINESSE NASA Explorer (exoplanet) mission, 2012 – now
Member of science working group of EChO (Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory), 2010 – now
Member of the European science team of the JWST/MIRI, the ‘Mid-Infrared Instrument’ of ‘James Webb Space Telescope’ (ESA, NASA), coordinating the topic on ’Evolved stars in Nearby Galaxies’, 2009 – now
Member phase-A consortium for SPICA/SAFARI (JAXA/ESA), 2008 – now
Co-Investigator of Herschel/PACS (ESA): coordinating the Belgian team working on evolved stars. Responsible for the scientific coherence between the PACS and HIFI observations on evolved stars, 2004 – now
Co-Investigator of Herschel/HIFI (ESA): coordinating Dutch team working on evolved stars, 2004 – now
Member of the European calibration working group (consisting of 8 members) of the JWST/MIRI, the ‘Mid-Infrared Instrument’ of ‘James Webb Space Telescope’ (ESA, NASA), 2004 – now
Co-Investigator of PACS and HIFI instruments on board the Herschel satellite (ESA). Member of the PACS calibration group, 2004 – now
Member of the calibration group of the ‘Mid-infrared Instrument (MIDI)’ of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the ESO, 2002 – 2004
Member of the calibration group of the ‘InfraRed Spectrometer (IRS)’ on board the Spitzer-satellite of the NASA, 2002 – 2006
Member of the calibration group of the ‘Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS)’ on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)-satellite of the ESA, 1996–2002
Member Expert panel of Flemish Fund of Scientific Research, 2014 – now
Referee for international journals, 2014 – now
Referee for funding agencies: ERC-StG, France Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Swedish, National Space Board, Dutch Scientific Organisation (NWO), STFC-UK, etc., 2014 – now
Member of Herschel User Group (HUG, ESA), 2012 – now
Member of Time Allocation Committee of ALMA (ESO), 2011 – now
Supervisor of 8 PhD students, co-supervisor of 9 PhD students. Currently (April 2014) su- pervising 4 PhD students (1 end of contract in 2014) and 5 post-docs (4 end of contract in 2014-2015). The requested ERC budget aims to ensure a European world-leading group in the field of astrochemistry and evolved stars.
Teaching several courses at bachelor and master level. Currently teaching courses for a total of 15 ECTS.
Member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) of 7 international conferences
Chairwoman of 1 international workshop
Sectretary of the POC (Permanent Education commission) of the Master of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Member of the Departmenetal board, board Young ZAP, board of the faculty of sciences, metaforum Leuven, board of the Institute of Astronomy
Collaborations with partners from Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain. US, France, Italy, Austria, UK, Mexico, etc.
Married with Kristof Dessein since 08/08/1998
3 children: Vere Dessein (2002), Rhune Dessein (2004), Noore Dessein (2006)
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