Carles Bona García

• Carles Bona is the appointed acting director of the IAC3.He has led several research projects and directed three thesis centered in numerical simulation of the Einstein equations (numerical relativity). Some highlights from his CV include:
  
  
  • Ph.D. in Physics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1980)
    
    
  • Cathedra of Theoretical Physics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (1998), where he leads a research group specialized in numerical simulation of black holes and gravitational waves.
    
    
  • He is the author of research papers published in quality international research publications such as Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, General Relativity and Gravitation, International Journal of Modern Physics, and Computer Physics Communications.
    
    
  • He has given lectures on his research in the main Spanish universities and in foreign research centers, including Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris), Observatoire de Paris (Meudon, France), Cambridge University (UK), Cardiff University (UK), University of Southampton (UK), Polytechnic School Zurich (Switzerland), Tuebingen University (Germany), Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Potsdam, Germany), Bad-Honnef School (Bad-Honnef, Germany), Univ. Autónoma de México (Mexico), Univ. de Córdoba (Argentina), Stanford University (USA), Athlantic University of Florida (USA), National Center for Supercomputer Applications (USA), or Tokyo University (Japan).
    
    
  • He hold several positions as public officer: General Director of Technology and Communications of the Balearic Islands Government (1999-2003), CEO of Balear de Innovación Tecnológica S.A. (2002-2003), board member of EMAYA (1995-1999), city councilor in Palma de Mallorca (1995-2003).
    
  
  

• Antonio Arbona is the appointed acting deputy manager of the IAC3, where he leads the developments in computer science. Some highlights of his CV:
  
  
  • Ph.D. in computacional physics, UIB, 2000.
    
    
  • Chief Technology Officer at GridSystems (2000-2009), where he led a team of 12 Ph.D.s and engineers who develop the Grid middleware Fura: http://fura.sourceforge.com
    
    
  • Arbona has 15 years of experience in software engineering, computational simulation and Grid software. He participated in the team that created Cactus in 1999, one of the first Grid software solutions.
    
    
  • He is a specialist in PDE simulation, central theme of his thesis and focus of several research projects within GridSystems.
    
    
  • He coordinated the participation of GridSystems in several local projects, 7 Spanish PROFIT research projects, 2 Spanish CENIT research projects and 6 projects of the European 6th Framework Programme. He is the author of research papers in numerical relativity and computational biomedicine.
    
  
  

• Josep Lluís Ballester Mortes heads a group specialized in simulation in the area of Solar Physics. Some highlights from his CV include:
  
  
  • Ph.D. in Physics, Universitat de Barcelona (1982)
    
    
  • Cathedra of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (2001), where he heads a research group specialized in numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamical waves in magnetic structures of the solar corona.
    
    
  • He is the author of numerous research papers in first level international publications, such as Nature, Solar Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal, Space Science Reviews, Physical Review, or Astrophysics and Space Science.
    
    
  • He has given seminars and invited lectures in institutions including Univ. of St Andrews (UK), Univ. of Sheffield (UK) CNRS (Nice, France), Univ. de Mérida (Venezuela), Astronomical Institute (Ondrejov, Chec Republic), Univ. Complutense (Spain), Kodaikanal Observatory (India), Royal Society (UK), Royal Astronomical Society (UK), Leuven University (Belgium), or Astronomical Institute (Rumania).
    
  
  

• Bartomeu Coll is the Principal Investigador of the TAMI Group, specialized in the processing of digital images. TAMI is one of the three research groups of the Universitat de les Illes Balears integrated in the IAC3, and it is composed of 7 researchers. Image processing has a growing role in applied mathematics, where computational experiments and theoretical analysis of the physical models, functional analysis, probability and statistics create a synergy to obtain stable models, convergent and mathematically well-conditioned. Some highlights in his CV include:
  
  
  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1987)
    
    
  • Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (1994), where he heads a research group specialized in mathematical analysis and processing of digital images and co-leads a research group specialized in dynamical systems based on differential equations.
    
    
  • He has produced research papers published in international scientific publications in the area of Applied Mathematics, including Journal of Differential Equations, Numerische Mathematik, SIAM, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
    
    
    
  • He has been the PI of several Spanish funded research projects (TIC and MTM) as well as international ones (European project and a Spanish-French Integrated Action).