Dr. Jordi Isern Vilaboy

Supernumerary Member

Experimental Sciences: Doctor of Physical Sciences

Date of admission: April 9, 2002

Medal: No. 97

Admission speech: “A Turbulent Universe”

Reply speech: Dr. M. Teresa Anguera Argilaga, Doctor of Psychology

Research Professor at the CSIC since 1996.
Professor at the University of Barcelona (1974–1986).
Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1976–1978).
Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2004–2011).
Research Professor at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA) (1986–1988).
Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB) (1988–1996).
Research Professor at the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE) (1999–present).
Supervisor of 11 PhD theses, including those of professors Rosario López (1985), Margarita Hernanz (1986), Enrique García-Berro (1990), Eduardo Bravo (1991), Inmaculada Domínguez (1991), among other distinguished researchers.

His research areas include Stellar Physics, Galactic Structure and Evolution, Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Plasma Physics, and Particle Astrophysics.
Deputy Director of CEAB (CSIC) (1994–1996).
Founder and Director of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) (1996–2015).
Founder and Director of the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC) (1999–2016).
President of the Affiliate Campus Association of the International Space University (1998–2000).
Member of the Time Allocation Committees of the IAC–Canary Islands Telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the ESO.
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Calar Alto Observatory (2006–2010).
Member of the Space Science Advisory Committee of the ESA (2014–2017).
Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Catalonia (2001).
Elected Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (2013).

Observation of SN2011fe with INTEGRAL. Astronomy & Astrophysics 552, 91 (2013).
A white dwarf cooling age of 8 Gyr for NGC6791. Nature 465, 194 (2010).
Axions and the cooling of white dwarf stars. ApJ 682, 109 (2008).
The initial-final mass relationship of white dwarfs. MNRAS 387, 1693 (2008).
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of merging white dwarfs. A&A 413, 257 (2004).
The halo white dwarf population. ApJ 503, 239 (1998).
12C/13C ratios and Li abundances in C-stars. MNRAS 289, 11 (1997).
The physics of crystallizing white dwarfs. ApJ 485, 308 (1997).
The origin of neutron stars in binary systems. ARA&A 28, 183 (1990).
Low energy nucleosynthesis of lithium, beryllium and boron. ApJ 200, 646 (1975).
Co-editor of Europhysics Letters (Astrophysics, Cosmology and Geophysics) (1992–1997).

Dr. JORDI ISERN VILABOY