BIO
Nuria Huélamo Bautista (Madrid, 1972) is a researcher at Centro de Astrobiología, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). She has worked at prestigious astrophysics centers and in observatories such as the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Garching, Germany) and the Paranal Observatory (Chile) of the European Austral Observatory.
PROJECT
Her research is into the formation of stars, brown dwarfs and planets using the most advanced telescopes. Among her discoveries are the detection of what may be a planet in the process of formation on the disc of a star. Brown dwarfs are objects that bridge the gap between giant planets and low-mass stars. They are very many of them, but it is not known how they are formed. The project explores their formation by using unique high-quality data obtained with the new ALMA interferometer.