Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga

ESA XMM-Newton / SAS Development and Maintenance Team and
                 SOC S/W Mainenance Team.

I started working at ESAC in April 2003 as a Data System Software 
Engineer for the XMM-Newton mission. As part of my duties I have
been in charge of the development of a Mission Planning tool for
XMM-Newton  and I also belong to the SAS development team, where I
am in charge of the maintenance and development of tasks packages
and SciSim maintenance. Since April 2003, I am more involved with
my SAS duties where, apart from the tasks mentioned above, I am in
charge of the implementation of new RGS functionality.

As a research activity, here at ESAC I have been working in the
analysis of the XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL monitoring campaign of the
IGR J16318-4848 source.  This source is the prototype, and one of
the more extreme examples, of the new class of highly obscured
Galactic X-ray sources discovered by INTEGRAL.

I finished my Astrophysics studies in 1997 at the Physical Science 
University (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, UCM). In September
of this year, I was awarded a Research Personnel Fellowship in the
Atomics Physics and Nuclear Department to work on the HEGRA (High
Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy) project.  In 2000, I had the
opportunity to become an  Assistant Professor in Computer
Architecture and Automatics Department of the Physical Sciences
University (UCM). In this department, I worked  in the High Level
Synthesis field, studying and developing applications using
evolutionary techniques (Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming 
and Evolutionary Strategies) for the optimization of equationals 
specifications by means of Genetic Programming.