
Perfil

Anna Ferré Mateu
Severo Ochoa Advanced Fellow, San Cristóbal de la Laguna
España, 2018
My main interests are to reveal the properties of intriguing types of galaxies and the role they play into the big puzzle of galaxy formation and evolution, and ultimately, our place into the Universe. I obtained my PhD in Astrophysics at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (2013), studying how the most massive galaxies in the Universe form and evolve. They hold the majority of the luminous matter of the Universe, and thus are a key piece of the puzzle of the formation of the Universe. Then, I moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, working as postdoctoral researcher at the Subaru Telescope (2013-2016). During the 3 years there, I glimpsed how hard it is to make such big telescopes to work while digging further into the mysteries of massive galaxies. I then moved to Melbourne, Australia, as a postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne University (2016-2018), switching my interest onto the small, less massive galaxies, considered to be the primordial building blocks that created the big, massive ones at later times. Only by understanding how these ancient galaxies formed we can solve the mystery of the larger ones. However, there is an entire Universe that was being hidden at plain sight, full of small, very diffuse and dim galaxies that are now finally accessible with the latest technology developed in the large optical telescopes. In 2018 I was awarded a Junior Leader LC Fellowship at the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos UB, to illuminate this hidden Universe and its new types of galaxies. From September 2021, I am a Severo Ochoa Advanced Fellow back to the IAC, further characterizing the life and death of these different types of galaxies and their relation with the supermassive black holes in their centers.
El código de tu beca es . Debe constar en todas las publicaciones o materiales de difusión que realices y que tengan relación con la investigación financiada por la beca de ”la Caixa”. Concretamente, la mención que hay que hacer es: «El proyecto que ha generado estos resultados ha contado con el apoyo de una beca de la Fundación Bancaria ”la Caixa” (ID 100010434), cuyo código es ».
LA BECA DE ANNA
Convocatoria
España, 2018
Universidad o centro de destino
ICCUB - Institute of Cosmos Sciences
Estudios cursados con la beca
Illuminating the faint Universe
Tipo de estudio
Postdoctorado
Especialidad de los estudios cursados con la beca
Astronomía y astrofísica
Universidad de origen
Universidad de La Laguna
Especialidad de origen
Astronomía y astrofísica
NOTICIAS SOBRE ANNA

11 February 2022
Más de 40 años impulsando la carrera de las científicas del futuro
Cada 11 de febrero se celebra el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia. Hoy, tres jóvenes, entre ellas, la becaria de grado universitario de la Fundación “la Caixa”, Candela Alapont Botía, charlan con dos profesionales consolidadas y también becarias, Anna Ferré Mateu y Susana Pérez Gutthann, ambas científicas y con una trayectoria profesional y vital en la que inspirarse.