PATENTS

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Automated Data-driven System to Estimate Performance Parameters from flight QAR data. 2020.

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PAPERS

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A. Pommerol, B. Jost, O. Poch, Z. Yoldi, Y. Brouet, A. Gracia-Berná et al. Experimenting with mixtures of water ice and dust as analogues for icy planetary material. Space Science Reviews. 2019.

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Andrés Muñoz, Enrique J. Casado Magaña, Antonio Gracia Berná. Data-driven Aircraft Trajectory Predictions using Ensemble Meta-Estimators. Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC 2018). 2018.

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B. Lavie; D. Ehrenreich, V. Bourrier, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, A. Vidal-Madjar, X. Delfosse, A. Gracia-Berná, K. Heng, N. Thomas, S. Udry & P. J. Wheatley. The long egress of GJ 436b giant exosphere. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2017.

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V. Bourrier, V. Allart, A. Wyttenbach, D. Ehrenreich, T. Semaan, N. Astudillo-Defru, A. Gracia-Berná, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, N. Thomas, S. Udry. Mysterious Lyman-α variations in Kepler-444, the oldest known planetary system. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2017.

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M.R. El-Maarry , N. Thomas, A. Gracia-Berná and 49 authors. Regional surface morphology of comet 67P from Rosetta/OSIRIS images: The southern hemisphere. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2016.

 

M. Ramy El-Maarry, Nicolas Thomas, Antonio Gracia-Berná, Maurizio Pajola, Olivier Groussin. Comet 67P's morphological dichotomy and surface evolution from the Rosetta/OSIRIS camera. Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) 2016. Pasadena, CA. EEUU.

A. Gracia-Berná, A. Pommerol, N. Thomas, R. Marschall, Z. Yoldi, B. Jost, O. Poch. Simulating multiple scattering of light on rough surfaces using in situ laboratory measurements of smooth samples: a new GPU ray-tracing technique. [In preparation]. 2016.

Marschall, R., C.C. Su, Y. Liao, N. Thomas, K. Altwegg, H. Sierks, W.-H. Ip, H.U. Keller, J. Knollenberg, E. Kührt, I.L. Lai, M. Rubin, Y. Skorov, J.S. Wu, L. Jorda, F. Preusker, F. Scholten, A. Gracia-Berná, A. Gicquel, G. Naletto, X. Shi, and J.-B. Vincent. Modelling of the observations of the inner gas and dust coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – First results. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2015.

M. R. El-Maarry, N. Thomas, L. Giacomini, M. Massironi, M. Pajola, R. Marschall, A. Gracia-Berná, H. Sierks, C. Barbieri, P. L. Lamy, R. Rodrigo, H. Rickman, D. Koschny, H. U. Keller, J. Agarwal, M. F. A’Hearn, A.-T. Auger, M. A. Barucci, J.-L. Bertaux, I. Bertini, S. Besse, D. Bodewits, G. Cremonese,, V. Da Deppo, B. Davidsson, M. De Cecco, S. Debei, C. Güttler, S. Fornasier, M. Fulle, O. Groussin, P. J. Gutierrez, S. F. Hviid, W.-H. Ip, L. Jorda, J. Knollenberg, G. Kovacs, J.-R. Kramm, E. Kührt, M. Küppers, F. La Forgia, L. M. Lara, M. Lazzarin, J. J. Lopez Moreno, S. Marchi, F. Marzari, H. Michalik, G. Naletto, N. Oklay, A. Pommerol, F. Preusker, F. Scholten, C. Tubiana and J.-B. Vincent. Regional surface morphology of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta/OSIRIS images. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2015.
 

Pommerol, A., N. Thomas, M. R. El-Maarry, M. Pajola, O. Groussin, A. -T. Auger, N. Oklay, S. Fornasier, C. Feller, B. Davidsson, A. Gracia-Berná, B. Jost, R. Marschall, O. Poch, M. A. Barucci, J. -L. Bertaux, F. La Forgia, H. U. Keller, E. Kuehrt, S. C. Lowry, S. Mottola, G. Naletto, H. Sierks, C. Barbieri, P. L. Lamy, R. Rodrigo, H. Rickman, D. Koschny, J. Agarwal, M. F. A’Hearn, I. Bertini, G. Cremonese, V. Da Deppo, M. De Cecco, S. Debei, C. Guettler, M. Fulle, P. J. Gutierrez, S. F. Hviid, W. -H. Ip, L. Jorda, J. Knollenberg, G. Kovacs, J. -R. Kramm, M. Küppers, L. Lara, M. Lazzarin, J. L. Lopez Moreno, F. Marzari, H. Michalik, F. Preusker, F. Scholten, C. Tubiana, and J. -B. Vincent. OSIRIS observations of metre-size exposures of H2O ice at the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and interpretation using laboratory experiments. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2015.

 

Thomas, N., B. Davidsson, M.R. El-Maarry, S. Fornasier, L. Giacomini, A. Gracia-Berná, S.F. Hviid, W.-H. Ip, L. Jorda, H.U. Keller, J. Knollenberg, E. Kührt, F. La Forgia, I.L. Lai, Y. Liao, R. Marschall, M. Massironi, S. Mottola, M. Pajola, O. Poch, A. Pommerol, F. Preusker, F. Scholten, C.C. Su, J.S. Wu, J.-B. Vincent, H. Sierks, C. Barbieri, P.L. Lamy, R. Rodrigo, H. Rickman, D. Koschny, M.F. A’Hearn, M.A. Barucci, J-L. Bertaux, I. Bertini, G. Cremonese, V. Da Deppo, S. Debei, M. Fulle, O. Groussin, P.J. Gutierrez, J.-R. Kramm, M. Küppers, L. M. Lara, M. Lazzarin, J. J. Lopez Moreno, F. Marzari, H. Michalik, G. Naletto, and C. Güttler. Re-distribution of particles across the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2015.

 

M.R. El-Maarry, N. Thomas, A. Gracia-Berná, R. Marschall, A-T. Auger, O. Groussin, S. Mottola, M. Pajola, M. Massironi, S. Marchi, S. Höfner, F. Preusker, F. Scholten, L. Jorda, E. Kührt, H. U. Keller, H. Sierks, M. F. A'Hearn, C. Barbieri, M. A. Barucci, J-L. Bertaux, I. Bertini, G. Cremonese, V. Da Deppo, B. Davidsson, S. Debei, M. De Cecco, J. Deller, C. Güttler, S. Fornasier, M. Fulle, P. J. Gutierrez, M. Hofmann, S. F. Hviid, W-H. Ip, J. Knollenberg, D. Koschny, G. Kovacs, J.-R. Kramm, M. Küppers, P. L. Lamy, L. M. Lara, M. Lazzarin, J. J. Lopez Moreno, F. Marzari, H. Michalik, G. Naletto, N. Oklay, A. Pommerol, H. Rickman, R. Rodrigo, C. Tubiana, J-B. Vincent, Fractures on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observed by the Rosetta/OSIRIS camera. Geophysical Research Letters. 2015.

 

S. González, A. Gracia, P. Herrero, N. Castellanos, N. Paul. MedVir: an interactive representation system of multidimensional medical data applied to Traumatic Brain Injury’s rehabilitation prediction. Madrid, Spain. Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS 2014).

 

A. Gracia, S. González, V. Robles and T. von Landesberger. New Insights on the Suitability of the Third Dimension for Visualizing Multivariate Data: a Study Based on Quality Loss Quantification. Information Visualization. 2014.

 

A. Gracia, S. González, V. Robles and E. Menasalvas Ruiz. A methodology to compare Dimensionality Reduction algorithms in terms of loss of quality. Information Sciences, 270(0):1-27, 2014.

 

A. Gracia, S. González and V. Robles. MedVir: 3D visual interface applied to gene profile analysis. Madrid, Spain. The 2012 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation. HPCS 2012. 693-695

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Gracia A, Gonzalez S, Veiga J, Robles V. VR BioViewer - A new interactive-visual model to represent medical information. In MSV '11: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods. Las Vegas, NV, USA 2011:40-46.

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Garre C, Hernandez F, Gracia A, Otaduy M.A. Interactive Simulation of a Deformable Hand for Haptic Rendering. World Haptics 2011. Proceedings of World Haptics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2011. Best Student Paper Award.

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AWARDS

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Course Director’s Prize for Excellent Overall Performance on the MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering. Cranfield University. 2018

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Postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Comunidad de Madrid - Programa de Atracción de Talento. Comunidad de Madrid. 2017

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Postdoctoral fellowship. Swiss National Science Foundation. 2014

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Postdoctoral fellowship. CERN. 2013

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Finalist of the IDEA² Madrid Program. Harvard & MIT (Biomedical Research). 2012

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Doctoral scholarship. Gobierno de España. 2010

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Best Student Paper Award. World Haptics Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey. 2010

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RESEARCH POSTERS

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Brightness temperature modelling of icy and dusty materials applied to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. 8th EARSeL Workshop on Land Ice and Snow 2017. Bern. Switzerland

 

Photometry of fractal meshes for applications to large-scale rough planetary surfaces. GPU Technology Conference (NVIDIA). Silicon Valley, California. 2016.

 

Evidence and modelling of dust transport across the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), 2015.

 

Metre-size bright spots at the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Interpretation of OSIRIS data using laboratory experiments. European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2015.

 

Modelling of the inner gas and dust coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using ROSINA/COPS and OSIRIS data - First results. European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), 2015.

 

3D visualizer for flight paths and minima separation. Second SESAR Innovation Days. Breunschweig, Germany, 27th to 29th November 2012.
 

 

 

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

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GPU Technology Conference 2016 (GTC). NVIDIA. San Jose, California, USA. April 2016. 

 

ESA's Planetary GIS Workshop. 5-7 May 2015, ESAC (European Space Astronomy Centre), Madrid, Spain.

 

JRS 2014. Joint Rough Set Symposium. Madrid - Granada. Spain.

 

HPCS 2012. High Performance Computing and Simulation. Madrid. Spain.

 

MSV '11. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods. Las Vegas, NV, USA.

 

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RESEARCH STAYS

 

10/2012 – 02/2013. PhD stay. Fraunhofer IGD. Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany).

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BACHELOR'S THESIS SUPERVISION

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Virtual Reality Environment around the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Faculty of Science, University of Bern. Nils Schnabel