Xavier Luri Carrascoso

Xavier Luri Carrascoso - Xavier Luri Carrascoso - BIYSC
  • Director of the ICCUB since June 2018 and full professor at the Quantum Physics and Astrophiscs department of UB, where he is co-leading the main Spanish group participating in the Gaia mission.
  • He combines the teaching duties for undergraduate and graduate students with the research activity, and has directed 7 PhD theses.
  • Coordinator of the SPACIOUS project funded with 1.9 million Euros by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme to address strategic research issues in astrophysics.
  • His research activity is focused on ESAs Gaia mission, where he was one of the proposers of the mission and has been a member of the executive committee of the data reduction consortium of Gaia (DPAC) since its creation in 2006.
  • Member of the Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Panel of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) since 2022.