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Asorey Barreiro, Jacobo
Department: Departamento de Física Teórica
Field: Astronomía y astrofísica
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias

Research Institute: INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CENTRO DE ASTROPARTÍCULAS Y FÍSICA DE ALTAS ENERGÍAS (CAPA)

UNESCO codes
  • Cosmología y cosmogonía

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI agreement periods of research evaluation. 27/08/25
Academic position: Profesor Permanente Laboral
ORCID number: 0000-0002-6211-499X

Research interests
  • Astrofísica
  • Cosmología
  • Cosmologia de particulas

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My research focuses on the determination of the nature of dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe. This work is conducted through astrophysical observations of from large-scale extra-galactic surveys across a all wavelengths. I have focused on advanced optimization techniques with extragalactic surveys. The most important result of my career was my direct contribution to the most precise measurement of cosmological parameters using data from galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, reachning a level of statistical precision comparable to those derived from the analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, allowing us to verify the standard cosmological model, $\Lambda$CDM. Lately, I have pivoted toward utilizing radio-frequency surveys for cosmology and investigating the reciprocal impact of supermassive black holes on their host galaxies, research that has been distinguished by publication in the prestigious journal Nature Astronomy.

I am a contributing member of several major international scientific collaborations: Euclid, the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), and the SKA Observatory (SKAO). I have participated in international collaborations such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES), the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS).

I have 64 publications within Q1-ranked journals, with an h-index of 36 (ADS database). I am the lead author on six of these papers. I have 8,136 citations (453 per year, 715 during last five years). I have 101 total publications. According to the INSPIRE-HEP, I have 7,859 citations and an h-index of 37, with 17 publications reaching 100 citations, and three exceeding 1,000 citations.

I have disseminated my work through more than 40 international conferences and 15 invited seminars at prestigious universities in Australia, South Korea, Italy, Spain, and the United States. Especially, I represented the EMU collaboration at the Rencontres de Moriond in 2022. Both in 2023 and 2024, I was the the lecturer for the Cosmology course at the Taller de Altas Energías (TAE) at Centro de Ciencias de Benasque.

Currently, I am an Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza. Previously, I was a María Zambrano Research Fellow at UCM (2022–24) and a postdoc at CIEMAT (2019–22), KASI (South Korea, 2018–19), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia, 2017–18), University of Queensland (Australia, 2016–17), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA, 2013–16). I obtained my PhD in 2013 from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, supervised by E. Gaztañaga and M. Crocce. I have been involved in 10 competitive research projects funded by major agencies in the EU, Spain, Korea, Australia, and the USA, serving as Principal Investigator (PI) on one.

I have served on the organizing committees for 5 conferences and coordinated scientific working groups. I am a peer reviewer for top-tier journals including MNRAS, ApJ, and Universe. I am an official evaluator for the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I held I3, PCD, and PAD accreditations, and one ANECA sexenio. I have supervised four Master’s (TFM) and five Bachelor’s (TFG) theses, alongside over 400 hours of university teaching and member of PhD and Master's panels. My public outreach efforts span several continents in Spain, South Korea, and Australia.


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