!! Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente - Curriculum Vitae
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*Graduated in Physics, 1987 (Univ. of Barcelona)\\
*Ph.D. in Physics, 1992 (Univ. of Barcelona) (work done at the UB, MPA, and for the most part at ESO, supervised by L.B. Lucy)\\
*Postdoctoral work at IAP (France) and Harvard (1992-94)\\
*Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Univ. of Barcelona (1994-2012). Accreditation as Full Professor in 2010\\
*Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Fundamental Physics (CSIC, Madrid) and Visiting Professor at the ICC of theUB (2012-present)
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*Senior member of the Supernova Cosmology Project since 1995, leading the La Palma node of the project. 
*Starting in 1997, leads an international programme to identify surviving stellar  companions of Type Ia supernovae\\
*PI of the International Time Programme of the ENO, at the observatories in La Palma (2002)\\
*Steering Committee of the ERN on the Physics of Type Ia Supernovae Explosions (2002-2006)
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*Author or co-author of 138 scientific papers, most of them in top scientific journals, including 5 in Nature (2 as first author, 2 as second author, and 1 as sole author) and 1 in Science (sole author). Topics include: supernova physics (theory and observations), supernova cosmology, dark energy, and gamma-ray bursts\\
*Total number of citations: over 13,600\\
*Editor of two books: on supernovae (1997) and on dark energy (2010). Author of a book on conceptual problems in Physics (2011)
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*Co-director of the Nato ASI on Thermonuclear Supernovae (Aiguablava, 1995)\\
*Organizer of the annual meeting of the Supernova Cosmology Project (Barcelona, 2001)\\
*Organizer of an international meeting on Key Approaches to Dark Energy (Barcelona, 2006)\\
*Organizing committee of  a Joint Discussion (Prague, 2006) and a Symposium (Padova, 2011), of the International Astronomical Union\\
*Over 30 invited talks at international meetings (including a highlight talk at the XIX Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Paris, 1998)
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*Supervised 5 Ph.D. theses. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on different matters pertaining to Astrophysics and Cosmology, since 1994. Undergraduate teaching in Physics starting at the same epoch