Almudena Alonso Herrero

Almudena Alonso-Herrero (born 1968) is a Spanish astronomer whose research includes the use of infrared astronomy to study star formation and dust emission in Seyfert galaxies and other galaxies with active nuclei. She is a researcher for the Spanish National Research Council, affiliated with the astrophysics department in the Spanish Astrobiology Center of the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial.

Education and career Alonso-Herrero studied physics and cosmology at the Complutense University of Madrid, earning a licenciate in 1991 and completing her Ph.D. in 1995. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, University of Arizona, and University of Hertfordshire, and took her present position with the Spanish National Research Council in 2016.

She was part of the instrument teams of NICMOS for the Hubble Space Telescope and MIPS for the Spitzer Space Telescope. She is a Spanish co-investigator of the James Webb MIRI European Consortium. She has served on several international committees, including the ESO Science and Technology Committee and the ESA Astronomy Working Group.

Recognition Alonso-Herrero is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and was elected as a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2022.

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