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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Astrophysics |
| Keywords | compact objects, cosmic-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, astrophysics |
| Honours and awards | 2020: Presidential International Fellowship Initiative, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 2014: Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists, China 2014: Honorable Mention in the Gravity Foundation Research Awards, USA 2012: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2011: Shared award: Bruno Rossi Prize, USA, 2011 To the Fermi-LAT collaboration 2010: NASA Group Achievement Award, USA 2009: ICREA Conference Award 2007: I3 Excellence Award, Ministry of Education, Spain 2007: Shakti Duggal Award in Cosmic Ray Physics of the Intl. Union of Pure and Applied Physics 2006: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, USA 2006: Spanish nominee for the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) 2004: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Award for Excellence in Research 2004: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Award for the Best Scientific Contribution by a Fellow 2001: Junior Fellow of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, Italy 2001: Young Investigator Awards of Argentina 2000: Dottori Prize, Joint Award of the Argentinian and Brazilian Astronomical Societies to the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Astronomy defended in Argentina or Brazil in the triennial 1997-1999 2000: Ernesto Galloni Medal in Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina 1999: Honorable Mention in the Gravity Foundation Research Awards, USA 1999: Juan Jose Giambiagi Prize, Argentinian Physical Society to the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Theoretical Physics of Argentina in the biennial 1998-1999 1998: Honorable Mention in the Gravity Foundation Annual Research Awards 1993: Awards to the Best University Students of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Argentina |
Current contact address
| Country | Spain |
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| City | Barcelona |
| Institution | ICREA & Institut de Ciencies de L'Espai (IEEC-CSIC) |
| Homepage | http://www.ice.csic.es/personal/dtorres |
Host during sponsorship
| Dr. Elisa Bernardini | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Zeuthen, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2013 |
Programme(s)
| 2012 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| The work of Prof. Diego F. Torres in theoretical gamma-ray astrophysics brought him undoubtful international prestige. His name is associated with studies of matter under extreme conditions, like those found in pulsars or in binary stars hosting compact objects. He contributed to deepening our understanding of such environments and guided theinterpretation of experimental searches. During his stay in Germany, he intends to study the signatures of given phenomena over different wavebands of the electromagnetic spectrum and the, yet undetected, neutrinos. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2013 | A. Caliandro, D. F. Torres, & N. Rea: A method for evaluating the expectation value of a power spectrum using the pdf of phases . In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 7, art. id. 15, (2013)., 2013, |
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| 2013 | The Fermi-LAT collaboration (DF Torres as corresponding author) Associating long-term gamma-ray variability with the superorbital period of LS I +61 303 [astro- ph/1307.6384] . In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters 773, L35 (2013)., 2013, 35-41 |
| 2013 | H. Zhu, W. Tian, D. F. Torres, G. Pedaletti, & H. Q. Su Kinematic distances studies of the planetary nebulae-SNR-HII region complex at G35.6-0.5 . In: The Astrophysical Journal 775, article id. 95, 9 pp. (2013)., 2013, 95-104 |
| 2013 | A. Papitto, C. Ferrigno, E. Bozzo, N. Rea, L. Pavan, P. Romano, L. Burderi, M. Burgay, S. Campana, T. di Salvo, M. Falanga, M. D. Filipovic, J. W. T. Hessels, A. Possenti, S. M. Ransom, A. Riggio, P. Romano, J. M. Sarkissian, I. H. Stairs, L. Stella, D. F. Torres, M. H. Wieringa, & G. F. Wong : Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar . In: Nature 501, 517-520 (2013)., 2013, 517-520 |
| 2013 | D. F. Torres, J. Martin, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, & A. Cillis: The effects of magnetic field, age, and intrinsic luminosity on Crab-like pulsar wind nebulae . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 436, 3112-3127 (2013), 2013, 3112-3127 |
| 2013 | Y. Chen, Shu Zhang, S-N. Zhang, L. Ji, D. F. Torres, P. Kretschmar, J. Li, & J. Wang The hard X-ray behavior of Aql X-1 during type-I bursts . In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters 777, 9 (2013)., 2013, 9-15 |
| 2013 | G. A. Caliandro, A. B. Hill, D. F. Torres, D. Hadasch, T. Tam, et al.: The missing GeV gamma-ray binary: Searching for HESS J0632+057 with Fermi-LAT. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 436, 740-749 (2013), 2013, 740-749 |
| 2013 | L. Ji, S. Zhang, Y. Chen, N. Zhang, D. F. Torres, P. Kretschmar, M. Chernyakova, J. Li, & J. Wang X-ray bursts probe the corona of 4U 1636-536 . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 432, 2773 (2013)., 2013, 2773-778 |