Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution

Dr. David Barrado Navascués is a senior researcher at the Spanish Centro de Astrobiologia. He works at the European Science Astronomical Center (ESAC), which is part of the European Space Agency near Madrid. At the Instituto Nacional de Ténica Aerospacial (INTA), he has been Principal Investigator and was the National Project Manager for the Spanish collaboration within MIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope. He was also previously the director of the Spanish-German Center Calar Alto Observatory.
Dr. Barrado Navascués was a postdoc in the theoretical department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Max-Plank Institut für Astronomie (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finished his PhD dissertation in Astrophysics; initiated at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also has a PhD in Philosophy and Humanities and received the 2021 award to the best PhD dissertation by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage. He has also held prestigious fellowships, such as: Fulbright scientist, a NASA/NSF fellowship, and a contract by the Ramón y Cajal program.
Dr. Barrado Navascués' research topics focus on the search and characterization of the properties of substellar objects and exoplanets, as well as properties of stars in open clusters. He has specialized in stellar and planetary system formation using varying observational techniques, including optical to far infrared imaging, spectroscopy, and ground-based and space-borne telescopes. This observational effort has produced more than 300 articles in well-known journals such A&A, ApJ, AJ, Nature, Science and MNRAS, with a significant impact (H factor=71). He has proudly published several books about science and history of science for the general public.

David Barrado Navascués博士是西班牙天體生物學中心的高級研究員。他在馬德里附近的歐洲科學天文中心（ESAC）工作，該中心是歐洲太空總署的一部分。在西班牙國家航空技術研究所（INTA），他曾擔任首席研究員，並擔任該國在詹姆斯·韋伯太空望遠鏡上的中紅外儀器（MIRI）合作項目的國家項目經理。他還曾擔任西班牙-德國卡拉爾托天文台的台長。

Barrado Navascués博士曾在馬德里自治大學的理論部門、德國海德堡的馬克斯·普朗克天體物理研究所（MPIA）以及麻省劍橋的哈佛-史密森尼天體物理中心擔任博士後研究員，並在那裡完成了他的天體物理學博士論文；該論文起源於馬德里康普魯特斯大學。他還擁有哲學和人文學博士學位，並獲得了國際天文學聯合會（IAU）C教育、外展和遺產部門頒發的2021年最佳博士論文獎。他還擁有多個聲譽卓著的研究員職位，如富布萊特科學家、NASA/NSF獎學金和拉蒙·伊·卡哈爾計劃的合同。

Barrado Navascués博士的研究主題集中在尋找和表徵次恆星物體和外行星的特性，以及開放星團中恒星的特性。他專注於使用各種觀測技術進行恆星和行星系統形成的研究，包括從光學到遠紅外成像、光譜學以及地面和太空望遠鏡。這項觀測工作已在A&A、ApJ、AJ、Nature、Science和MNRAS等知名期刊上發表了300多篇文章，具有顯著的影響力（H指數=71）。他還自豪地為大眾出版了幾本關於科學和科學史的書籍。