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SUMMARY:ICFO | NANDA REA
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DESCRIPTION:Friday\, January 18\, 2019\, 12:00. ICFO AuditoriumNANDA REA\nC
 SIC Staff Scientist\, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE\, CSIC-IEEC)\, Barc
 elona\, Spain. Winner of the Catalan National Research Award for Young Tal
 ent 2018.$$Nanda Rea obtained her PhD in Physics (2006) from the Universit
 y of Rome Tor Vergata\, partly working at the SRON Netherlands Institute f
 or Space Research under an EU Marie Curie Training fellowship. She continu
 ed her research with an NWO Veni Fellowship\, and she went for a long-term
  visit at the University of Sydney\, Australia. In 2009 she was awarded a 
 Ramon y Cajal fellowship to join the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE\, CS
 IC-IEEC) in Barcelona\, and soon after a Research Group Leader position an
 d an NWO Vidi Award at the University of Amsterdam\, The Netherlands. Sinc
 e 2016 she is a CSIC staff scientist at the Institute of Space Sciences (I
 CE\, CSIC-IEEC) in Barcelona. Her research focuses on observations and the
 oretical simulations of neutron stars\, the compact and strongly magnetic 
 remnants of the Supernova explosions of relatively massive stars. Her work
  was published in high impact journals (i.e. Rea et al. 2010\, Science\; R
 ea 2017\, Nature Astronomy) and received several international awards as f
 or the Young Scientist Price from the International Union of Pure and Appl
 ied Physics (IUPAP)\, the Zeldovich Medal from the Russian Academy of Scie
 nces (RAS) and the international Committee of Space Research (COSPAR)\, an
 d the Young Research Talent Award from the Fundació Catalana per a la Rec
 erca i la Innovació (FCRi). She is also very involved in outreach activit
 ies\, and gave invited presentations at the CosmoCaixa in Barcelona\, the 
 Caixa Forum in Zaragoza\, in the Planetario de Madrid\, as well as writing
  semi-outreach invited articles for Physics Today and Nature Astronomy. Sh
 e recently obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant with the aim of studying the
  neutron star population in our Galaxy via population synthesis simulation
 s\, and she is the PI of an H2020 COST Action on neutron stars encompassin
 g 30 countries and more than 300 scientists world-wide. 
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