Daniel Risquez - Gaia

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Daniel Risquez

Leiden Observatory (The Netherlands)

Daniel Risquez obtained a physics degree at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 2002.

After that, he started to work at LAEFF (Laboratory for Space Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics). LAEFF is a Spanish research laboratory which is part of INTA (National Institute for Aerospace Technology) and is located at ESAC site (Villafranca del Castillo, Spain). He has been working on OMC, the Optical Monitoring Camera on-board INTEGRAL.

Daniel finished his PhD in astrophysics in 2008, and then he started a postdoc position in Leiden Observatory as an ELSA fellow. He is a CU2 member, and currently he is involved in the Gaia Attitude Model.

[Published: 06/05/2009]