CURRICULUM VITAENuno C. Santos

(January 2018)

Nationality: Portuguese

Date of Birth: 1973-11-20

Contacts: +351 226 089 830; nuno.santos@astro.up.pt

Personal web page: http://www.astro.up.pt/˜nuno

Education and Academic career

2012-now: Researcher (“Investigador Coordenador”, equivalent to full professor, IFCTcontract) at Instituto de Astrofısica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA)

2015-now: Assistant Professor (with “Agregacao”) at the Departamento de Fısica eAstronomia, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto

2015-now: Founding member of IA and member of the executive board

2014-now: Member of the Management and Scientific Boards of the PhD::SpaceDoctoral Network (Univ. Porto and Univ. Lisbon)

2012-now: member of the executive board of the Centro de Astrofısica da Universi-dade do Porto

2008-now: Leader of the Research Team ExoEarths (currently 9 Pos-Docs, 11 PhDstudents, ∼30 papers/year), and leader of the IA research line in Planetary Systems

2002: PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

1996/1998: BSc and MSc in physics, Faculdade de Ciencias da Univ. de Lisboa

2015: Internacional prize Almirante Gago Coutinho-Ciencias da Terra e do Espaco,together with Dr. Jorge Martins, Dr. Pedro Figueira, and Dr. Claudio Melo (3000e)

2010: Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize, together with Dr. Michel Mayor andDr. Garik Israelian (0.5 M$)

Main Research interests (observational astrophysics)

Extrasolar planets: planet detection and characterization (observational basis)

Stellar astrophysics: stellar atmospheric parameters, abundances, and activity; star-planet connection

Other: instrumentation for space sciences, partnering with space industry

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Research projects

Since 2004, responsible for attracting research funding from multiple sources: PI of6 projects funded by FCT (total of 1.085 Me), 2 ESO/ESA projects (580 Ke), and 2FP7/H2020 projects (1.424 Me). Main funding:

2018-2019: Responsible for the ESA-PRODEX contract for the PLATO mission (ESA)(∼120 000e)

2013-now: Responsible in IA (and national scientific coordinator) for the partnershipwith Deimos Engenharia: development of Software for the CHEOPS mission (ESA)(full contract ∼1 800 000e);

2009-2014: ERC Starting Grant (Title: “EXtra-solar planets and stellar astrophysics:towards the detection of Other Earths”) (928 090e)

2011-2014: Node coordinator of the GREAT-Initial Training Network and leader ofWP5 “Planetary Systems: near and far” (217 442e)

Leadership of instrumentation projects for ESO and ESA

2015-now: CoI of the NIRPS project: project for a new high resolution spectrographin optical and near-infrared for the ESO 3.6-m telescope (first light expected in 2019)

2013-now: Member of the CHEOPS-ESA mission consortium board, including sci-entific leadership and contacts with industry, and leader of sub-WP 10.02, “DataCalibration” (launch expected in December 2018)

2013-now: Member of the board of the HIRES@ELT consortium; the committee isplanning construction of a high-resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT (phase A suc-cessfully ended in 2017, funded by ESO)

2010-now: Member of the PLATO-ESA consortium board (national representation;PLATO is a mission being reproposed for M3 call (launch expected in 2026)

2009-now: Co-PI of the project ESPRESSO – high-resolution spectrograph for theVLT, ESO, and coordination of national participation (first light in Nov. 2017)

Leadership of Astronomical Observational Projects

PI and CoI of more than 70 approved observing projects in major telescopes andobservatories: ESO La Silla and VLT (Chile), Hubble Space Telescope (HST, NASA),La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), OHP (France), CFHT (Hawaii), CTIO (Chile);

Presently PI of an ESO highly competitive Large program using the HARPS spectro-graph (135 nights between 2012 and 2018);

Member of the Committee of Users of ESO observatories in Chile-Atacama, Paranal;

Experience with different instruments and observing techniques, including high re-solution optical spectroscopy, near-IR imaging and spectroscopy, millimeter spec-troscopy, photometry, and adaptive optics imaging.

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Scientific publications1

Presently co-author of 316 published refereed papers in high impact journals (totalcitation count: 16 985). First author of the most cited paper (658 citations). Thisincludes 34 as leading author, gathering 2833 citations. H-index of 67. Editor of 3books (conference and advanced school proceedings).

Representative high impact papers with a major contribution (after PhD):

– “Observational evidence for two distinct giant planet populations”, Santos, N. C.,Adibekyan, V., Figueira, P., Andreasen, D. T., Barros, S. C. C., Delgado-Mena, E.,Demangeon, O., Faria, J. P., Oshagh, M., Sousa, S. G., Viana, P. T. P., Ferreira,A. C. S. 2017, Astronomy & Astrophysics 603, A30 5 citations

– “Doppler spectroscopy as a path to the detection of Earth-like planets”, Mayor,M., Lovis, C., Santos, N.C. 2014, Nature 153, 328 27 citations

– “An Earth-mass planet orbiting αCentauri B”, Dumusque, Xavier, Pepe, Fran-cesco, Lovis, Christophe, Segransan, Damien, Sahlmann, Johannes, Benz, Willy,Bouchy, Francois, Mayor, Michel, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Udry, Stephane,2012, Nature 491, 207 223 citations

– “Statistical Properties of Exoplanets”, Udry S., & Santos, N.C., 2007, AnnualReview of Astronomy and Astrophysics 45, 397-439 338 citations

– “The HARPS survey for southern extra-solar planets II. A 14 Earth-masses exo-planet around µArae”, N.C. Santos, F. Bouchy, M. Mayor, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, S.Udry, C. Lovis, M. Bazot, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, G. Lo Curto, X. Delfosse, C.Mordasini, D. Naef, J.-P. Sivan, & S. Vauclair, 2004, Astronomy & AstrophysicsLetters, 426, 19 182 citations

– “Spectroscopic [Fe/H] for 98 extra-solar planet-host stars: exploring the proba-bility of planet formation”, N.C. Santos, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, 2004, Astronomy& Astrophysics, 415, 1153 658 citations

Main teaching and supervising experience

2004-now: Supervisor/Co-supervisor of 16 PhD Students (10 concluded, 6 in course)and 12 MSc Students (11 concluded)

2005-now: Responsible for the MSc course on “Planetary Systems” for PhD and MScprograms, U. Porto

2018-now: Responsible for the course on “Telescopios e Instrumentos para as Cienciasdo Espaco” for the Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Fısica, U. Porto

Intervention in the scientific community

2017-now: Appointed expert for the working group “Ciencias do Universo”, respon-sible for the Agenda de Investigacao e Inovacao (I&I) da area do Espaco (FCT)

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2013-2016: Member of the FCT Scientific Council – “Ciencias exatas e engenharias”;

2005-2008: National delegate in the Users Committee of the ESO;

Project evaluator for the following international agencies: NASA, Austrian ScienceFund (FWF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), Ne-therlands Organisation for Scientific Research, ANR-France;

Frequent referee in Telescope Time Allocation Committees (e.g. ESO, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope); refereeing of research papers for major international journals (e.g.Astronomy & Astrophysics, Science, The Astrophysical Journal, Nature);

Scientific communications and Outreach

41 invited/review talks in international conferences and 23 contributed talks

Example of relevant communications include:

– “The quest for other Earths”, ESA-ERC networking event, ESA, Noordwijk, TheNetherlands, 10-11 Nov. 2015 (Invited talk)

– “The interesting case of HD41248: planets or spots?”, Extreme Precision RadialVelocity Workshop, New Haven (Yale), USA, 4-8 July 2015

– “Stellar abundances and planet frequency in the Kepler era”, Kepler ScienceConference II, NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA, 4-8 Nov. 2013

– “Towards the detection of optical reflected light from other worlds”, in ShapingE-ELT Science and Instrumentation, ESO, Garching, 25 February-1 March 2013

Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) member of 26 international conferences andschools, including three in Portugal (∼150 participants each). Examples include:

– SOC of the conference “Pathways Towards Habitable Planets II”, Bern, Switzer-land, 13-17 July 2015

– SOC (co-chair) e LOC da conferencia “Towards other Earths II. the star-planetconnection”, 15-19 Setembro 2014, Porto, Portugal

– SOC da conferencia “Kepler Science Conference II”, 4-8 November 2013, NASAAmes Research Center, in Mountain View, CA, USA

– SOC da 15th workshop on “Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun”, 21-25Julho 2008, St Andrews, Scotland

45 seminars in national and international institutions

Main outreach publications include: “A Procura de Outros Mundos”, in “Do Big Bangao Homem”, U. Porto Edicoes, serie Para Saber #46; Book chapter 2015; “OutrasTerras no Universo”, Nuno Santos, Luis Tirapicos, Nuno Crato; Gradiva 2012.

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