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Xavier Luri Carrascoso is now officially the new director of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC).<\/h3>\n

Since September 1, Luri has taken over from the former director, Ignasi Ribas Canudas, who led the Institute from 2017 until last august.<\/h3>\n

Xavier Luri (Ribes de Freser, Girona, 1966) holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona, where he has been a professor in the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics since 2007 and a full professor since 2021.<\/p>\n

In addition to his teaching career, which he began in the early 1990s, Luri has built a solid track record as a researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), one of the IEEC\u2019s research units, where he served as director from 2018 until the day before taking office as the new director of the IEEC. Since 2023, he has also been a member of the European Space Sciences Committee, an institution that provides independent scientific advice on space science to organizations such as the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA).<\/p>\n

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Xavier Luri Carrascoso is now officially the new director of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC). Since September 1, Luri has taken over from the former director, Ignasi Ribas Canudas, who led the Institute from 2017 until last august. Xavier Luri (Ribes de Freser, Girona, 1966) holds a PhD in Physics from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cerca-system"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nXavier Luri, new director of the IEEC - CERCA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Xavier Luri, new director of the IEEC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/xavier-luri-new-ieec-director\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Xavier Luri, new director of the IEEC - 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