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  • Image of PINRELL - Prototype for INfraREd analysis of Lower Limbs, designed and built by the team at Medical Technology. Credit: Carlos Colodro and Sara González
    Astrophysical Technology for early detection of diabetic foot neuropathy
  • Wifi Controller at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna. Credit: Jorge Goya.
    The IAC renews its WiFi network platform
  • The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma). Credit: Daniel López/IAC.
    The La Palma World Biosphere Reserve and the IAC work out a protocol to monitor and prevent invading species
  • Dark matter in two galaxies simulated on a computer. The only difference between them is the nature of dark matter. Without collisions on the left and with collisions on the right. The work suggests that dark matter in real galaxies looks more like the image on the right, less clumpy and more diffuse than the one on the left. The circle marks the end of the galaxy. Credit: Image taken from the article Brinckmann et al. (2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, 746; https://doi.org/10.10
    Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
  • Artist's impression of a blazar
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
  • Simulation of the OSIRIS-REx "touch-and-go" mission in Nightingale crater.
    Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
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Employment

  • Postdoc assigned to specific scientific or technical project
    Un contrato postdoctoral Galaxias 2020/One postdoctoral contract Galaxias 2020 (PS-2020-041)

    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on topics within the project “The structure and evolution of galaxies and their central regions” (PID2019-105602GB-I00), led by Dr. Johan

  • Postdoc assigned to specific scientific or technical project
    Un contrato postdoctoral HARMONI 2020/One Postdoctoral contract HARMONI 2020 (PS-2020-043)

    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on topics within the project “Participation of the IAC in the development of the HARMONI instrument for the ELT: Phase-D1” (PID2019

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