JOAQUIN
GONZALEZ-NUEVO GONZALEZ

Between 2005-2017 I worked mainly for the ESA Planck mission, where I gained important responsibility roles. I achieved the status Planck Scientist in 2010 (a title awarded by the Planck Science Team to scientists associated with the Planck project who have dedicated at least 2 years of Full Time Equivalent work to the project, and which is a prerequisite for leading the preparation of an article by the “Planck Collaboration”). I was the coordinator of the LFI core team area Non-CMB science and the Planck Core Program Project “Statistical properties and evolution of radio and sub-mm sources”. I also led and coordinated the activities related with the production of three of the published Planck papers. Moreover, I was the responsible for the production of the PCCS, one of the ESA Planck first official products delivered in early 2013. It should be stressed that it is not easy for such a young scientist to gain such a high level of visibility and weight in such a big international collaboration. Between 2008-2017 I was also member of the Herschel-ATLAS collaboration, the largest open-time key project undertaken by Herschel. In 2010, I was member of the H-ATLAS 'Golden Core', a dedicated team who deals with the data before the public release. I participated in a Science paper (and its precursor works) that confirmed the existence of strong gravitational lenses in the Far-Infrared band. I proposed the novel HALOS method that would allow the identification of more than 1000 Strong Gravitational Lenses and demonstrated the existence of a measurable cross-correlation between high/low redshift galaxies due to weak lensing. Together, both results are opening a new era of lensing analysis with important applications for astrophysical and cosmological studies. Currently, I'm co-leading the cosmology group as part of the ICTEA (University of Oviedo), compose by four researchers and three PhD Students. Their main goals are the study of the submillimeter magnification bias as a new Cosmological probe and the development and application of neural networks to the point source detection and component separation issues in CMB images. Moreover, I have been the PI of five projects (the Young Researchers Grant, 2011, funded by SISSA and RYC-2013-13256, AYA2015-65887-P, PGC2018-101948-B-100 and PID2021-125630NB-I00 from Spanish MINECO) devoted to the study and development of the HALOS method, the lensing properties of the sub-mm galaxies and the cosmological analysis of their cross-correlation function, respectively. The total amount of funds from these projects is ~490 k€. During my career, I received the 2018 Gruber Prize and the 2019 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi award (European Physical Society) as part of the Planck Collaboration. In 2012, I was also selected as to represent the Spanish research in physics to the important and exclusive 62nd Lindau Laureates Meeting. In addition, I have also participated in research and general teaching and in different outreach activities. I have dedicated more than 1000 hour to general teaching, at degree and master levels. My management skills have been expanded by supervising multiple students, organising courses, seminars and conferences (“CosmoCruise 2015” & “Exploring the Physics of Inflation (EPI2013)”) and collaborating as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. I recognize the importance of dissemination in science for attracting young people into scientific research, making the general public understand the importance of research, etc. I has coordinated press releases and has participated in several outreach talks, both public and specialized, discussions with younger students, etc. I talk about science on local newspapers and tv shows, and brings astronomy to young people by giving talks in schools, from primary to high school.