Carlos Gabriel
ESA XMM-Newton

Since 2001 I am responsible of the maintenance and further
development of the XMM-Newton scientific data analysis and
simulation packages. I am also, as a member of the Reflection
Grating Spectrometer instrument team, in charge of certain aspects
of the calibration and of the RGS instrument monitoring.

I have received my PhD at the Institute for High Energy Physics in
Heidelberg in 1989, working on experimental particle physics
studying electro-weak interactions, particularly B-meson decays.  

After a post-doc in high energy physics at the Max-Planck institute
for nuclear physics, I started to work in the astrophysics area
with ISO at the Max-Planck institute for Astronomy, in Heidelberg,
in 1991. My main tasks were the establishment of an ISOPHOT Data
Centre and the development of the ISOPHOT data analysis pipeline
S/W. 

I joined ESA in 1993 as staff, to work further on the ISO project.
My main contribution to the project was the development of PIA, one
of the interactive data analysis packages of the mission. As a
member of the ISOPHOT Instrument Dedicated Team I came to VILSPA in
1995.

I do not have any special astrophysics research area but have
collaborated and continue doing so with researching colleagues
helping with different aspects of data reduction. I understand also
my job developing scientific analysis software from the point of
view of a scientist. In addition I am active in the general area of
astronomical data analysis as a member of the IUE FITS Working
Group and as a member of the ADASS (Astronomical Data Analysis and
Software Systems) permanent Program Organizing Committee.