University degrees:-
* Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas, Universitat de Barcelona, July 1988.
* Grado de Licenciatura, Universitat de Barcelona, December 1989.
* Doctor en Ciencias Físicas, Universitat de Barcelona, December 1992.
Professional activity:
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* Part-time associate professor, Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataró,
Mataró, 1989-1990.
* Part-time asssistant professor in Practices, Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE), Barcelona, 1989-1990.
* Fellow of the Plan Nacional de Formación de Personal Investigador, at the Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 1990-1991.
* University assistant, Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia,Universitat de Barcelona, 1991-1995.
* Postdoctoral fellow at the European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, 1995-1997.
* Senior fellow at the European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, 1997-1999.
* Assistant astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, 1999-2001.
* Head of the User Support Group at the European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, 2001-present.
Research stays in other centers
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* Département d'Astrophysique
Stellaire et Galactique, Observatoire de Paris- Meudon, France, 1990-1991, 5 months.
* Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA; 1991-92 (4 months), 1993 (3 months), 1995 (1 month).
Use of large observing facilities
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* Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, Spain, 1.23m telescope
+ photometer, 1990.
* Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, Spain, 1.23m telescope + MAGIC infrared camera, 1996, 1998.
* Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, Spain, 2.2m telescope + MAGIC infrared camera, 1995.
* Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Calar Alto, Spain, 1.52 m telescope + photometer, 1988-1991.
* Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Calar Alto, Spain, 1.52 m telescope + CCD camera, 1992-1994.
* Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain, 1m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope + photometer, 1988-1994.
* Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA, 2.4 m Steward Observatory Telescope + NICMOS 3 infrared camera, 1991, 1993.
* Mount Bigelow Observatory, Arizona, USA: 1.5 m Steward Observatory Telescope + near infrared spectrometer, 1993.
* Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory, Arizona, USA: MMT + infrared bolometer, 1991.
* European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chila: New Technology Telescope + EMMI, SUSI2, SOFI, since 1996.
* European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile: ESO-MPIA 2.2m telescope + IRAC2, 1997-1998.
* European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile: ESO-MPIA 2.2m telescope + WFI, since 1999.
* European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile: 1.5 m Danish telescope + DFOSC, 1998-1999.
* Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia: 74" Telescope + Coude spectrograph, 1997.
* Siding Spring Observatory, Australia: 40" Telescope + CCD camera, 1997.
* Observatorio del Teide: 1.5 m Carlos Sánchez Telescope + CAIN infrared camera, 1998.
* European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile: Very Large Telescope UT1 + FORS1, since 1999.
* European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile: Very Large Telescope UT1 + ISAAC, since 2000.
* European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile: Very Large Telescope UT2 + FORS2, since 2000.
* European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile: Very Large Telescope UT2 + UVES, since 2001.
Observatory support-related activities
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* Astronomer in the ESO New Technology Telescope Team, 1995-1998.
* Member of the Commissioning Team of the ESO Very Large Telescope, 1998-1999.
* Astronomer at the ESO User Support Group, 1999-present.
Communications presented to international conferences
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* Comerón, F., Torra, J., Gómez, A.E., "The Gould Belt: a puzzling
structure", XII IAU European Astronomy Meeting, Davos (Switzerland),
1990.
* Comerón, F., Torra, J., Jordi, C., Gómez, A.E., "Expanding motions in the Cygnus superbubble", I Plenary Meeting of the European Astronomical Society, Liege (Belgium), 1992.
* Comerón, F. "'Stars' and 'stones' in Emperor Elagabalus coins", conference "The inspiration of astronomical phenomena", Rocca di Papa (Italy), 1994.
* Comerón, F., Rieke, G.H., "Near infrared observations of low mass objects in NGC 2024", ESO workshop "The bottom of the main sequence -and beyond", Garching (Germany), 1994.
* Comerón, F., Torra, J., "Star formation and high velocity clouds", workshop "The formation of the Milky Way", Granada (Spain), 1994.
* Comerón, F., Torra, J., "The Gould Belt", symposium "The evolution of stellar systems", Petrozavodsk (Russia), 1995 (invited review).
* Comerón, F., Claes, P., "ISO observations of brown dwarf candidates in the Rho Ophiuchi cluster", workshop "Brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets, Tenerife (Spain), 1997.
* Comerón, F., Torra, J., Gómez, A.E., Jordi, C., "Kinematic evidences for propagating star formation induced by OB associations", Hipparcos Venice'97 Symposium, Venice (Italy), 1997.
* Comerón, F., "Kinematics as a tracer of star formation triggered by massive stars", conference "From darkness to light", Cargese, France, 2000.
* Comerón, F., "Deep in a star forming region with the VLT: looking for sub-Jupiter mass objects , ESO/ST-ECF/STScI Workshop in Deep Fields, Garching, Germany, 2000.
Participation in international schools
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* III Vatican
Observatory Summer School, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, 1990.
* XX Saas-Fee course of the Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, on "The galactic interstellar medium", Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 1991.
* Ecole de Printemps de Goutelas, on " Hipparcos: une nouvelle donnee pour l'Astronomie", Goutelas, France, 1992.
* IV Canary Islands Winter School, on Infrared Astronomy, Tenerife, Spain, 1992.
Teaching in international schools
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* I Summer School of the Network of European Observatories in the North
(NEON), Calar Alto, 2000.
Participation in preparation of PhD theses.
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* Member of the PhD thesis committee of P. Ambrocio-Cruz, Observatoire
de Marseille, 1999 ("Rapporteur")
* Co-director of the PhD Thesis of N.Delmotte, University of Strasbourg, started 2001.
Last update: 6 February 2001