BIO
Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (Segovia, 1977) is a Ramon y Cajal researcher employed at Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, of the Spanish National Research Center.
PROJECT
He has worked and carried out observations in the main observatories around the world. He studies gamma ray bursts (GRBs), the highest-energy explosions in the universe.
GRBs are produced by the death of the biggest stars in existence. They are brief and thus difficult to study, but provide a great deal of information on the evolution of the universe, because they shine so much that they are like headlights that illuminate everything between the GRB and us.
This project will involve the creation of a database that makes available to the scientific community the biggest catalogs of GRB observations available today, a tool considered essential by astrophysicists.