Jacobo Aguirre's
Brief CV
Basic professional data
I was born in Madrid in 1975. I graduated in Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1999. From then and until September 2006 I worked as an assistant professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. From 2006 to 2014 I had a postdoctoral position at the Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), and from 2014 to 2019 I worked at Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC). Right now I have a permanent research position at Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), where I am starting the challenging project of building a group on Complexity applied to Astrobiology.
I obtained the Ph.D. in 2004 from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, being the title of my doctoral thesis "Uncertainty in nonlinear dynamics: fractal structures, cellular models and control of chaos." I have developed research stays in Denmark, Germany and the United States, and in 2005 I received the National Award for Junior Researchers in Theoretical Physics, awarded annually by the Royal Spanish Physical Society.
Publications, projects and contributions to conferences
I have published around 50 scientific papers, almost all of them in indexed journals, and 6 book chapters. The transdisciplinarity of my research made me contribute to journals classified in the JCR knowledge areas of Multidisciplinary Physics, Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Environmental Sciences, Applied Mathematics, etc. Most of them were in prestigious journals such as Nature Physics, Nature Communications (2), Reviews of Modern Physics, Phys. Rev. Lett. (3), Nucleic Acids Research, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Science & Technology, Phys. Rev. E (5), Nonlinearity, Phys. D (2), etc.
I have collaborated in 16 projects, three of them with European finance, being once the Principal Investigator. One of those projects was a collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp & Dohme.
I have presented my research work at around 30 conferences (7 of them as invited speaker to international conferences, and 3 as invited speaker to national conferences.) I have collaborated in the organization of 7 international and 7 national conferences and workshops.
Bringing science close to the private sector and the general public
I co-founded the technological company Complexity Killed the Cat in 2013. My partner is Javier M. Buldu (the only scientist gullible enough to join me in this crazy project).
I belong to Complejimad, a non-profit scientific and cultural association whose main goal is to promote research, development and diffusion of the scientific study of complex systems.
Furthermore, I have always done a strong effort to communicate science to the general public: I co-founded with Angel Serrano the Astronomy Group of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in 2001, every year I give a 30 hours course on Astronomy for people over 55 years old, and I develop several activities related to the observation of relevant astronomical phenomena. Furthermore, I have appeared talking about science in Onda Cero, RNE, Punto Radio, Radiovallekas, Telemadrid and Popular TV, and my work has been cited in El Mundo, ABC and La Gaceta Universitaria (more info in Media).
