In order to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences releases each day of this week one piece on one of its most renowned researchers.

Today we look into Carme Jordi research:

Position: Associate Professor

Field: Galaxy Structure and Evolution

Research: Her research field includes the physical characterization of single and binary stars and open clusters (young groups of stars in the galactic disc and born from the same molecular cloud), based on astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic observations from ground and space facilities.

She has been involved in space missions such as Hipparcos and INTEGRAL of the European Space Agency (ESA). She is fully engaged in the astrometric space project Gaia since the initial steps in 1997. Her first contributions were related with the definition of science goals and design of the photometric instrument, and currently she participates in the photometric data processing and validation activities within the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium.

She is a member of the Gaia Science Team (the scientific advisory body of ESA for this mission) and of the scientific committee of commission "Astronomical photometry and polarimetry" of the International Astronomical Union. To complement the spectroscopic Gaia data, Carme participates in the large Gaia-ESO survey with the VLT@ESO and in the WEAVE@WHT multiobject spectrograph collaboration. She is part of the "Red Española de Gaia" and "Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training" networks for the scientific exploitation of Gaia data.

Carme also participates in outreach activities for high school students and general public.