Modelling Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Prof. Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he obtained a doctoral degree in physics from the National University at La Plata. His Ph.D. was on cosmology and astrophysics of extended gravitational theories. After several years in fellowships (at Sussex University in UK, Institute for Radioastronomy in Argentina, Princeton University and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the USA) he moved to Barcelona to work at the Institute of Space Sciences, of which he is Director since March 2016.His research focuses on Galactic compact objects. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals.

• Gamma-ray observations of PWNe (GeV to TeV).-Pulsar wind nebulae and transitional pulsars.- Particle Acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae.- MHD / Radiative simulations of pulsar wind nebulae.- Observations of note relating Fermi pulsars and nebulae.- Prospects for PWN observations in radio facilities.- Electrons and positrons from pulsar wind nebulae.- Radio Properties of pulsar wind nebulae.- MHD modelling: aims, usage, scales assessed, caveats, codes.- Striped winds.- Prospects for PWN observations in X-ray facilities.- X-ray observations of PWNe.- Prospects for PWN observations in gamma facilities (CTA and satellites).- 3D Modelling of Crab.- A multi-wavelength, observational view of Crab flares.- What do we know from optical/IR observations of nebulae?