page_title: Rafael Rebolo López
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rafael Rebolo López / Career
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: TNG at sunset; it is ready for a night of observations. The TNG (Telescopio Nazionale Galileo) is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the "Roque de los Muchachos" Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The TNG is operated by the "Fundación Galileo Galilei" on behalf of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF). Image taken on September 24, 2012 at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory.
context_page_description: Rafael Rebolo López is a Spanish astrophysicist. In October 2013 he became the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. He is a professor at the Spanish National Research Council. In 2002 Rebolo became an external professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and a member of the Max Planck Society.
context_section_description: 1984 Rafael Rebolo began as  a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands ( IAC). 
  1997-1999 served as head of the IAC Research Division. In 1998 
  1998 Rebolo began to serve as a  Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Professor of Research in Physical Science
  2002 Rebolo became a member of the Max Planck Society and External Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
  Rebolo has developed research projects in cosmology, in stellar physics and exoplanets, involving the study of  the cosmic microwave background, the characterization of sub-stellar objects  and black holes and the search for Earth-like exoplanets.    
  
  Rebolo and his team were responsible for the discovery in 1995 of the first brown dwarfs  Brown dwarfs are objects with properties intermediate between stars and giant planets. He was part of the discovery of several giant extrasolar planets in 2000,  Rebolo provided empirical evidence in 1999 of the physical connection between supernovae and black holes. He has been a pioneer in Spain in the experimental research of the cosmic microwave background. Rebolo has developed experiments in astrophysical observation at the Observatorio del Teide in collaboration with the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge. 
  Rebolo leads the QUIJOTE consortium for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave backgroundwith telescopes in Tenerife. He is co-director of a high-precision spectrograph ESPRESSO for detecting exo-Earths  with the 8 m Very Large Telescope (VLT ) in Chile, and the AOLI project for high spatial resolution imaging on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope  at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands. He is co-investigator of the European Space Agency’s Planck  and Euclid space missions, and member of the Board of the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Cherenkov Telescope Array. He was also a member of the science committee of the  40 m E-ELT telescope, the steering committees of several European networks in astronomy (OPTICON; EARA) and the US (AURA) and the Scientific Committee "Science Vision for European Astronomy" and co-chair of the "Stars and Planets" panel. He is Scientific director of the "IAC: Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" program since 2011.
caption: The TNG  is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the "Roque de los Muchachos" Observatory  in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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