Curriculum Vitae

April 2019- June 2023 .-  Doctorate degree in Astrophysics: Understanding AGN physics through variability, with Dr. Patricia Arévalo. Instituto de Física y Astronomía (IFA), Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.

September 2022-February 2023.- Doctoral Internship with Dr. Paula Sánchez Sáez. European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching, Germany.

December 2021-May 2022.- Doctoral Internship with Dr. Matthew Graham. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, United States of America.

October 2018-December 2018.- Erasmus internship: UV/X-ray correlations in XRBs, with Dr. Nathalie Degenaar. Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

July 2018-September 2018.- Summer Grant in Astrophysics. Astronomy in X-rays: Unveiling the ultra-compact X-ray binaries, with Dr. Montserrat Armas Padilla. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, Spain.

September 2016-March 2018.- Master in Astrophysics. Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain. I did my thesis with Dr. Almudena Prieto Escudero. You can check it  here!

September 2012-September 2016.- Degree in Physics. Universidad de Sevilla (US), Seville, Spain.

October 2014-February 2016.- Training Course on Leisure Time Monitor. Escuela de Tiempo Libre y Ocio Insignia de Madera (ETLIM), Spain. Plan development, evaluating, team-working, creativity, coordinating.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications as first author:

• E López-Navas, et al.; Improving the selection of changing-look AGNs through multiwavelength photometric variability, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 524, Issue 1, September 2023, Pages 188–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1893 

• E López-Navas, et al.; The Type 1 and Type 2 AGN dichotomy according to their ZTF optical variability, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 518, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 1531–1542, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3174  

• E López-Navas, et al.; Confirming new changing-look AGNs discovered through optical variability using a random forest-based light-curve classifier, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 513, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages L57–L62, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slac033   

• López-Navas, E.; Degenaar, N.;Parikh, A. S.;Hernández Santisteban, J. V. and van den Eijnden, J.; The connection between the UV/optical and X-ray emission in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Aql X-1,Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 493, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 940–951, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa275

• E López-Navas, M A Prieto; The photocentre-AGN displacement: is M87 actually harbouring a displaced supermassive black hole?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 480, Issue 3, 1 November 2018, Pages 4099–4112, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2148

You can find the entire updated list of publications here.

Oral presentations

• Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Valencia 2022, Spain)

• XVII SOCHIAS Annual Meeting (online 2022)

• Supermassive Black Holes, Pucón (online 2020)

• Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei (YAGN, online 2020)

• XVI SOCHIAS Annual Meeting (online 2020)

• International Congress XVIth Latin American Regional Meeting of the IAU (LARIM, Antofagasta 2019, Chile)

Courses

• Second Chilean SDSS-V collaboration meeting (online, 2022)

• INSANE workshop: The art of modelling the spectral energy distribution of galaxies (2019, Santiago, Chile)

• Introduction to web pages development (2018, Instituto de Economía Internacional, Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

• Member of the Local Organiser Committee and participant in the JWST IAC Workshop –GO1 Proposal Planning (2018, IAC- Tenerife, Spain)

• Instrumentation for Satellites for Observation on Earth (2017, IAC-Tenerife, Spain)

Most of professional career has focussed on my formal education, but during my batchelor's  and my master's degree I also worked in the education, sports and leisure time sectors. Here some of the highlights!

2015-2016: External practices as maths teacher. Asociación Española para los Efectos de Tratamiento del Cáncer – Aeetc, Sevilla

Development of teaching material adapted to children with learning difficulties, maths classes to children with learning difficulties.

Business or sector Education

2015-2016: Scout Leader (Leisure time monitor, volunteerism). Matalascañas Scout Group, Asociación Scout de España (ASDE), Matalascañas (Huelva)

Planning and development of educational activities, work with children and young people.

Business or sector Education and leisure time 

2014-2016: Delegate of Youth (Volunteerism). Scouts de Andalucía (SdA), Andalucía

Events organisation and coordination, development of educational activities for young people. 

Business or sector Education 

2013-2015: Collaborator in leisure activities of the University of Seville. Servicio de Actividades Deportivas de la Universidad de Sevilla-SADUS, Sevilla

Collaboration and supervision of sporting events.

Business or sector Sport and Events

Mother tongue       Spanish

Second language   English - First Certificate (B2)

Organisational / managerial skills 

• Concision, productivity and effectiveness gained in my Master and PhD in Astrophysics. 

• Coordinating skills gained through my experience as producer in the outreach projects Un Viaje al Universo del Principito and AstroVan Siderales.

• Plan development, evaluating and multitasking gained through my experience as Scout leader and Youth Delegate.

Digital competence

• Good command of office suite (word processor, spread sheet, presentation software)

• Good command of Windows, Linux and Mac.

• Good command of Python Programming Language.

• Good command of IRAF (Astronomy Software)

• Good command of LaTeX (typesetting system).

• Basic knowledge of video editing (amateur).

Driving licence      B