Pedro Gomez-Alvarez

EAS Science Archives Team (SAT)

Abstract for the Jamboree micro-seminar 19 October 2006

In June 2006 I joined the Scientific Archives and VO Team (SAT) at
ESAC.  I started my professional career as a Data processing
specialist in 1996 for the IUE (last 4 months out of 19 years of
operation) and ISO projects. In 1998 I moved to the Canary Islands
to join the software and control group of the Gran Telescopio
Canarias (GTC), where I designed and developed the software
systems for the telescope pointing/active optics and the data
processing system for the scientific and engineering instruments.
In parallel I started my PhD with Dr. Evencio Mediavilla at the
IAC (Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias) in the field of 
gravitational lensing. Particularly I have been focused on 
spectrophotometric variability on gravitational-lensed QSOs during 
microlensing events using integral field spectroscopy. Our last 
achievements were recently published on ApJL 
(http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/0605522) about the remarkable
object  SDSSJ1004+4112 which is the widest known (~14")
multiple-imaged quasar.