Pedro M. Rodríguez Pascual

ESA XMM-Newton

After a PhD at Universidad de Granada with a thesis on the study of
the line emitting gas in the nucleus of a typical Seyfert 1 galaxy,
I joined the IUE Observatory for six years, then moved into
Universidad Europea de Madrid for three years and, since 2000, I am
working for the Users Support Group in the XMM-Newton SOC.

The gas surrounding the vicinity of the central engine in Active
Galactic Nuclei(AGN) has always been the main topic of the my
research, but not the only one. I have also studied the connection
between star forming processes and AGN, the properties of the
intergalactic medium, the role of foreground galaxies in metal
absorption line systems and, more recently, the X-rays properties
of Solar System bodies (planets and comets).

The variety of research topics reflects a variety of observing and
analysis techniques in different spectral domains: mid-resolution
UV spectroscopy, high resolution optical spectroscopy, near
infrared imaging, X-rays imaging and spectroscopy, time series
analysis, reverberation mapping, photoionization codes,
multivariate analysis, etc.

Plans for the near future include the systematic analysis of the
AGN observations in the XMM-Newton archive; after six years of
operations the content of the archive has become sufficiently wide
so as to draw meaningfull conclusions.