Prof. Margarita Hernanz

She received the PHD degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona, Spain, in 1986. From 1984 to 1990, she was teaching at the Barcelona Tech University (UPC) in Barcelona (1984-1990), as Senior Lecturer since 1987. In 1990 she joined CSIC, as a Tenured Scientist, first at CEAB and since 1996 in the then founded Institute of Space Sciences (ICE), where she is Research Professor since 2008. Her research deals with late stages of stellar evolution and explosions of stars as novae and supernovae, with emphasis on their high energy (X- and gamma-rays) emission. In the last 20 years, she has been largely involved in the development of instrumentation for X- and gamma-ray missions: now she is PI of the WFM instrument of the China-EU X-ray mission eXTP (in phase B, expected launch 2027). She was Co-PI of the WFM instrument of LOFT, an M3 mission proposal accepted by ESA in 2011 for feasibility study. She has also been Co-I and Spanish PI (for the instrumentation) of GRI, DUAL, ASTROGAM (ESA), ACT, GRASP, STROBE-X (NASA) among others. She has been member of the ESA LOFT Science Study Team, and of the ESA INTEGRAL Users Group (ESA appointment). She has publications in the best ranked journals, including Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Letters (h>40).