- Marta Arbelo Pérez
- Director of the Research Promotion Secretariat
- (+34) 922 31 65 02 (ext. 6966)
- address.promoinvestigacion@ull.es
Antonio Aparicio Juan
Vice-Rector of Research and Transfer
Antonio Aparicio Juan was born in Granada in 1960. He graduated in Physics from the University of Granada in 1982 and earned his doctorate from the same university in 1988 with a thesis on star formation in nearby dwarf galaxies. He is currently Professor of Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna and a researcher at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics.
1. The design and development of research policies. In particular:
a) Promoting the development of research in university institutes, departments, research groups and other structures of the University of La Laguna.
b) Relations between the University of La Laguna and the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation System in the field of research and with public and private, national and international research funding institutions.
c) Support and encouragement of participation in projects, agreements, networks and other cooperation arrangements at the national and international levels.
d) Support and encouragement to participate in national and international funding calls.
e) Development of the own research program.
2. Research staff policy. In particular:
a) Promotion and management of the incorporation of research personnel in training, aimed at completing doctoral theses.
b) Promotion and management of the incorporation of postdoctoral research staff, particularly those from calls for excellence.
c) Management of the programs and calls for recruitment of pre- and postdoctoral research staff.
d Interlocution with public and private organizations for the development and financing of pre- and postdoctoral research staff recruitment programs.
3. Research support policy and initiatives. In particular:
a) Promotion and management of the optimization of the General Research Support Service of the University of La Laguna.
b) Promotion and management of support for research project management.
4. The policy for transferring research results. In particular:
a) Promotion, management and development of the transfer of research results in university institutes, departments, research groups and other structures of the University of La Laguna.
b) Relations between the University of La Laguna and the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation System in terms of transfer and with public and private, national and international institutions related to the transfer of research results.
c) Support and encouragement for the execution of transfer agreements with public and private entities or those that result in the transfer of research results.
d) Defense and management of the protection of research results and transfer.
e) Development of the Knowledge Transfer Office.
f) The dissemination of research and transfer results.
5. Publications of the University of La Laguna. In particular:
a) Research and transfer journals from the University of La Laguna, including their positioning in the usual international reference indices.
b) Research reports, minutes of meetings and conferences and any other publications related to research and transfer.
c) Parameters and indicators of research production and transfer.
6. Contracts and acquisitions. Those arising from the functions that, in the area of administrative contracting, the legal system attributes to the contracting authority in procedures relating to supply, service, and works contracts within the scope of its powers and the budgetary appropriations allocated to the Expenditure Units for which it is responsible, up to the amount of fifty thousand euros.
7. Grants and aid. Applications for grants and aid related to the Vice-Rector's activities. Grant management.
8. In general, any functions assigned to the Rector in matters of Research and Transfer that are not expressly assigned to another body.
9. In any case, the signing of agreements relating to matters pertaining to the Vice-Rector's Office is excluded from this delegation, without prejudice to any express delegations that may be made for specific cases.
- Esteban Luis Porrini
- Director of the Scientific Strategy Secretariat
- (+34) 922 31 65 02 (ext. 6345)
- direccion.estrategia@ull.es
- José Luis Rodríguez Marrero
- Director of the General Research Support Service (SEGAI)
- (+34) 922 31 65 02 (ext. 6014)
- address.segai@ull.es
- José Manuel Rodríguez Ramos
- Director of the Knowledge Transfer Office (OTC)
- (+34) 922 31 65 02
- dir_otc@ull.es
- Roberto González Zalacaín
- Director of Secretariat of University Institutes and Publications
- (+34) 922 31 65 02 (ext. 6354)
- direccion.institutos@ull.es
- Susana Eva Franco Escobar
- Director of the Secretariat of the Legal Framework for Research
- (+34) 922 31 94 80
- juridica.direction.investigacion@ull.es
- Maria Isabel Diaz Melian
- Secretary of the Vice-Rectorate
- (+34) 922 31 94 80
- secretaria.investigacion@ull.es
Antonio Aparicio Juan was born in Granada in 1960. He graduated in Physics from the University of Granada in 1982 and earned his doctorate from the same university in 1988 with a thesis on star formation in nearby dwarf galaxies. He is currently Professor of Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna and a researcher at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics.
He served as Director General of Universities for the Government of the Canary Islands from 2019 to 2020. He served as Director of the Department of Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna for two terms, from 2003 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2016. He also served as Coordinator of the Higher Education Department at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and as a member of the institute's Steering Committee during the same periods.
He worked as a postdoc at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Padua in the period 1988-1990 and at the IAC, as a support astronomer of the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), from 1990 to 1995. He obtained the position of Full Professor in the Department of Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna in 1995. He worked as a visiting researcher at Carnegie Observatories, in Pasadena, California, from 1997 to 1998.
He has taught university lectures since 1992 on galactic, extragalactic, and stellar astrophysics and cosmology, primarily at the University of La Laguna. He was a visiting professor at the University of Rome (Tor Vergata) from 2009 to 2012. He has given invited lectures at conferences and various institutions in Europe, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, the European Astronomical Society, and the Spanish Astronomical Society.
He has supervised a total of 15 doctoral theses (one in progress), several of them with international or European mentions and/or theses in joint supervision with the universities of La Laguna, Rome (Tor Vergata) and/or Padua.
His main scientific interests are stellar populations in nearby galaxies and globular clusters, and stellar kinematics. He has also worked on the search for exoplanets. He created and developed a methodology, widely used internationally, for accurately determining the star formation history of stellar systems from the analysis of resolved stellar populations: the so-called "IAC method," as well as the method's core algorithm, IAC-pop.
Among the results of his publications are the characterization of star formation in the early evolutionary stages of dwarf galaxies, its relationship with the reionization of the universe, the study of the internal kinematics of these galaxies, the determination of the low age dispersion of globular clusters, and the characterization of multiple stellar populations in these objects.
His research has produced a total of around 185 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, included in the first quartile (Q1) of the JCR, as well as several invited reviews, with 12,000 citations and an H factor of 62. He has been PI of numerous research projects funded by Spanish national R&D plans, bringing together researchers from different international institutions.
He has been the Principal Investigator of numerous observational projects using state-of-the-art observing facilities, including the HST, as well as co-principal investigator of the two major HST observational projects for the study of globular galaxy clusters. He has been a referee for numerous papers published in leading international astrophysics journals (ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, and A&A), a member of numerous time allocation panels (including ORM and ESO), and an evaluator for several national and international research funding agencies.

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