Rafael Rebolo López

Rafael Rebolo López (born September 12, 1961, in Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish astrophysicist. He is the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands; IAC), and a professor at the Spanish National Research Council and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

Rebolo earned a degree in physics from the University of Granada in 1984 and a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of La Laguna in 1987.

Since 1984 he is researcher at the IAC, where he served as head of the Research Division between 1997 and 1999. He is a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Professor of Research in Physical Science since 1998. Since 2002 he is member of the Max Planck Society and External Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

He 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, more recently, the search for Earth-like exoplanets. He is co-author of over 400 articles published in international journals of astrophysics (including ten in Nature and Science), which have accumulated more than 30,000 citations in the scientific literature. He has supervised or co-supervised 20 doctoral PhD theses.

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