Mar Mezcua

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mezcua and the second or maternal family name is Pallerola.

Mar Mezcua Pallerola is a Spanish astrophysicist known for her research on black holes, and especially the intermediate-mass black holes, of masses intermediate between the stellar black holes created in supernovas, and the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.^[1][2] She is a staff scientist at the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (Institute of Space Sciences), in Barcelona.

Education and career

Mezcua earned a degree in physics, specializing in astrophysics, through studies at three universities: the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 2002 to 2005, the University of La Laguna from 2005 to 2007, and (as an Erasmus scholar) the University of Göttingen from 2007 to 2008. Following this, she earned a Ph.D. in 2011 through the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and University of Cologne.^[3]

After postdoctoral stints at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, University of Montreal, and Institute of Space Sciences, she obtained a permanent position as a staff scientist at the Institute of Space Sciences in 2021.^[3]

References

1. Stuart, Colin (17 January 2018), "So long, suckers: Where have all the black holes gone?", NewScientist, retrieved 2023-07-30
2. NASA’s Chandra Finds Intriguing Member of Black Hole Family Tree, NASA, 23 February 2015, retrieved 2023-07-30
3. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2023-07-30; see also linked pdf cv.

External links

• Home page
• Mar Mezcua publications indexed by Google Scholar