Brief CV

Education

  • PhD in Physics (Doctorat en Física), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020
  • Master’s Degree in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Physics (Grau en Física), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014

Research Experience

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick, Sep. 2023 - Now, UK
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick, Dec. 2020 - Aug. 2023, UK
  • Graduate student, Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC, CSIC), Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2020, Spain
  • Visiting graduate student, Institut für Astrophysik, Georg‐August‐Universität Göttingen, Sep. - Dec. 2018, Germany

Publications

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First author refereed publications

  1. Lafarga, M., Ribas, I., Zechmeister, M., Reiners, A., et al., 2023, “The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Line-by-line sensitivity to activity in M dwarfs”, A&A, 674, A61, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245602

  2. Lafarga, M., Brogi, M., Gandhi, S., Cegla, H. M., et al., 2023, “The hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO III: A tentative blue-shifted water signal constrains the presence of clouds”, MNRAS, 521, 1233-1252, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad480

  3. Lafarga, M., Ribas, I., Reiners, A., Quirrenbach, A., et al., 2021, “The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Mapping stellar activity indicators cross the dwarf domain”, A&A, 652, A28, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140605

  4. Lafarga, M., Ribas, I., Lovis, C., Perger, M., et al., 2020, “The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial velocities and activity indicators from cross-correlation functions with weighted binary masks”, A&A, 636, A36, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937222