Jose F Valdés-Galicia
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Biography
Jose F Valdés-Galicia has dedicated most of his career to create and consolidate a group on experimental Cosmic Ray Physics. He is the PI of a Neutron Monitor and a Muon Telescope operating continuously since 1990 at the National University Campus in Mexico City. He has produced many papers on Cosmic Ray Variations caused by solar activity; in that field his group discovered the 1.6y cosmic ray variation (Valdés-Galicia et al, 1996) that opened the path for a new research line on cosmic ray mid-term variations. He is a Member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration operating an observatory in Argentina dedicated to Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays.