Jiménez Andrade Eric Faustino

Eric Faustino Jiménez-Andrade has been a professor at the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City, since 2022. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla and earned his master’s degree in astrophysics at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics in Tonantzintla, Mexico. He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn, Germany. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico (US). His research interests cover galaxy formation and evolution. He primarily uses observations from the Very Large Array Observatory to investigate how star formation and black hole activity shape galaxies across cosmic time. He has been a vibrant promoter of the next-generation Very Large Array, a future radio interferometer of 263 antennas in the US and Mexico. The Mexican government acknowledged his academic career with the National Award of Scientific Journalism and Communication (2014), while the government of the State of Puebla, Mexico, awarded him the Youth Achievement Award Vicente Suárez (2018).