I am a staff researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA; in Teruel, Spain) and the coordinator of the ARRAKIHS mission data reduction pipeline (known as the ARRAKIHS Harvester).
The ARRAKIHS Harvester takes the thousands of uncalibrated single exposures, and produces deep images/catalogs that are ready for scientific analysis.
ARRAKIHS will hopefully be launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2030, so we do not have much time to ensure that the photon's signatures are not lost during the reduction and can be used for our science. Researching solutions for this and implementing them to ESA's standards in an optimal way is the main goal of my team!
I also act as the pipeline scientist of the J-PAS and J-PLUS surveys, which are being obseved at our own Astrophysical Observatory of Javalambre (OAJ) and also help in the Euclid data reduction pipeline when needed.
For the list of my research products see the "Publication" and "Software" boxes below.
For all of these, I am leading a team with an M.Sc student, a PhD student, postdoctoral researchers and a research software engineer, while mentoring Google Summer of Code projects with active developers world-wide.
I have developed, and am actively maintaining, two large software projects: GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro; for data analysis) and Maneage (Managing data lineage; for the workflow). These are the main tools used in the ARRAKIHS Harvester and are being used more regularly within J-PAS, J-PLUS and Euclid (so a large fraction of my time goes to their development to achieve the given goals).
To enable all of this, I have received 450k euros in Spanish and European grants over the last few years, which I am so grateful for.