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Nuria Lorente is co-lead of the Research Data & Software section and head of the Software Engineering group in the AAO.
Her 25-year career has taken her around the world, from CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility, to Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Astronomy Technology Centre in the UK, ESO in Germany, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the USA.
She has a wide range of experience in algorithms and software primarily for optical and radio astronomy applications, and has particular interests in algorithms for object and path finding, data simulation and modelling, and the development of computing and software engineering within the research community.
Nuria has worked on a number of high-profile projects and instruments, including leading the development of the science data model on the ALMA telescope, instrument and data simulations on the JWST/MIRI space telescope, and leading the AAO Data Pipeline development and maintenance project for the ESO VLT telescopes.
More broadly Nuria is heavily involved in the international astronomy software community, and is currently serving on the committees for the Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) and SPIE Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy conference series.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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ADC11: ADC11: AAO Data Central 23/24
O'Toole, S. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Lorente, N. (Chief Investigator)
1/07/23 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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Vera Rubin Observatory/LSST Macquarie University (AAO-Macquarie) In-kind Contributions
O'Toole, S. (Primary Chief Investigator), Lorente, N. (Chief Investigator) & Liu, D. (Other)
1/07/23 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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MQAAAstro: Macquarie University Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics Research Centre
De Marco, O. (Primary Chief Investigator), McDermid, R. (Centre Deputy Director), Casali, M. (Centre Member), Wardle, M. (Centre Member), de Grijs, R. (Centre Member), Hopkins, A. (Centre Member), Coutts, D. W. (Centre Member), Withford, M. (Centre Member), Zucker, D. (Centre Member), Spitler, L. (Centre Member), Owers, M. (Centre Member), Dawson, J. (Centre Member), Kotachery, D. (Centre Member), Purcell, C. (Centre Member), Schwab, C. (Centre Member), Sealey, K. (Centre Member), O'Toole, S. (Centre Member), Lorente, N. (Centre Member), Ellis, S. (Centre Member), Lopez Sanchez, A. R. (Centre Member), De Silva, G. (Centre Member), Zafar, T. (Centre Member), Ryder, S. (Centre Member), Mulligan, J. (Centre Member), Feger, T. (Centre Member), Choudhury, S. (Centre Member) & Lawrence, J. (Centre Member)
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Other
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Starbugs: Demonstration and Commercialization
Hopkins, A. (Primary Chief Investigator), Colless, M. (Chief Investigator), Lawrence, J. (Chief Investigator), Issa, Z. (Chief Investigator), Lorente, N. (Chief Investigator), Said, K. (Chief Investigator), Barat, D. (Chief Investigator), Contos, A. (Chief Investigator) & McCarthy, P. (Chief Investigator)
1/07/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the difference between ionized gas and stellar velocity dispersions
Oh, S., Colless, M., D'eugenio, F., Croom, S. M., Cortese, L., Groves, B., Kewley, L. J., van de Sande, J., Zovaro, H., Varidel, M. R., Barsanti, S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Bryant, J. J., Casura, S., Lawrence, J. S., Lorente, N. P. F., Medling, A. M., Owers, M. S. & Yi, S. K., May 2022, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512, 2, p. 1765-1780 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ensuring continuing trust in our numerical ecosystem
Tocknell, A. & Lorente, N., 2025, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXXII. Gaudet, S., Bohlender, D., Gwyn, S., Hincks, A. & Teuben, P. (eds.). Online: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 443-446 4 p. (ASP Conference Series; vol. 538).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
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Future-proofing telescope archives: perspectives on sustainability
Miszalski, B., Fernando, N., Lorente, N., Davies, E. & Tocknell, J., 2025, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXXII. Gaudet, S., Bohlender, D., Gwyn, S., Hincks, A. & Teuben, P. (eds.). Online: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 138-141 4 p. (ASP Conference Series; vol. 538).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution
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The PyKOALA python library: a multi-instrument package for IFS data reduction
Corcho-Caballero, P., Ascasibar, Y., López-Sánchez, Á. R., González-Bolívar, M., Lorente, N. P. F., Tocknell, J., Jiménez-Ibarra, F., Daluwathumullagamage, P. J., Quattropani, G., Owers, M. & Verdoes-Kleijn, G. A., 24 Jul 2025, (Submitted) 4 p. (arXiv).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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MAVIS: imager and spectrograph
Ellis, S., Zhelem, R., Horton, A., Chin, T., Fernando, N., Hewlett, M., Lorente, N., Luo, S., McDermid, R., McGregor, H., Robertson, D., Schwab, C., Smedley, S., Waller, L., Zheng, J., Kosmalski, J., Cresci, G., Mendel, T., Bianco, A. & Brodrick, D. & 5 others, , 2024, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X. Bryant, J. J., Motohara, K. & Vernet, J. R. (eds.). Washington: SPIE, p. 1-14 14 p. 130961B. (Proceedings of SPIE; vol. 13096).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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