Almudena Alonso-Herrero

Almudena Alonso-Herrero (born 1968) is a Spanish astronomer whose research includes the use of infrared astronomy to study star formation and dust emission in Seyfert galaxies and other galaxies with active nuclei. She is a researcher for the Spanish National Research Council, affiliated with the astrophysics department in the Spanish Astrobiology Center of the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial.[1][2]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alonso and the second or maternal family name is Herrero.

Education and career

Alonso-Herrero studied physics and cosmology at the Complutense University of Madrid, earning a licenciate in 1991 and completing her Ph.D. in 1995. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, University of Arizona, and University of Hertfordshire, and took her present position with the Spanish National Research Council in 2016.[2]

She was part of the instrument teams of NICMOS for the Hubble Space Telescope and MIPS for the Spitzer Space Telescope. She is a Spanish co-investigator of the James Webb MIRI European Consortium. She has served on several international committees, including the ESO Science and Technology Committee and the ESA Astronomy Working Group.

Recognition

Alonso-Herrero is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and was elected as a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2022.[2]

Selected publications

Popularization
  • Alonso Herrero, Almudena (2022), Descubriendo Galaxias (in Spanish), Illustrated by Jesús Romero Márquez, Next Door Publishers, ISBN 978-84-125659-7-3

Research papers
  • Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Rieke, George H.; Rieke, Marcia J.; Scoville, Nick Z. (April 2000), "Extreme star formation in the interacting galaxy Arp 299 (IC 694 + NGC 3690)", The Astrophysical Journal, 532 (2): 845–866, arXiv:astro-ph/9911534, Bibcode:2000ApJ...532..845A, doi:10.1086/308622, S2CID 118248935
  • Alonso-Herrero, A.; Perez-Gonzalez, P. G.; Alexander, D. M.; Rieke, G. H.; Rigopoulou, D.; Floc'h, E. Le; Barmby, P.; Papovich, C.; Rigby, J. R.; Bauer, F. E.; Brandt, W. N.; Egami, E.; Willner, S. P.; Dole, H.; Huang, J.-S. (March 2006), "Infrared power-law galaxies in the Chandra deep field–south: active galactic nuclei and ultraluminous infrared galaxies", The Astrophysical Journal, 640 (1): 167–184, arXiv:astro-ph/0511507, Bibcode:2006ApJ...640..167A, doi:10.1086/499800, S2CID 119879418
  • Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Rieke, George H.; Rieke, Marcia J.; Colina, Luis; Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G.; Ryder, Stuart D. (October 2006), "Near-infrared and star-forming properties of local luminous infrared galaxies", The Astrophysical Journal, 650 (2): 835–849, arXiv:astro-ph/0606186, Bibcode:2006ApJ...650..835A, doi:10.1086/506958, S2CID 9157324
  • Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Almeida, Cristina Ramos; Mason, Rachel; Ramos, Andrés Asensio; Roche, Patrick F.; Levenson, Nancy A.; Elitzur, Moshe; Packham, Christopher; Espinosa, José Miguel Rodríguez; Young, Stuart; Díaz-Santos, Tanio; Pérez-García, Ana M. (July 2011), "Torus and active galactic nucleus properties of nearby Seyfert galaxies: results from fitting infrared spectral energy distributions and spectroscopy", The Astrophysical Journal, American Astronomical Society, 736 (2): 82, arXiv:1105.2368, Bibcode:2011ApJ...736...82A, doi:10.1088/0004-637x/736/2/82, S2CID 55760881

References
  1. "Alonso Herrero, Almudena", Astrophysics department, Spanish Astrobiology Center, retrieved 2023-04-02
  2. "Ilustrísima Señora Doña Almudena Alonso Herrero", Miembros de la Academia (in Spanish), Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-04-02
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