Irene Cruz-González
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Irene Cruz-González Espinosa (born 1953) is a Mexican astronomer whose research interests include the nuclear activity in galaxies, the observation of galaxies and their insterstellar medium, star formation, and optical and infrared telescope instrumentation.[1] She is a researcher and professor in the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Irene Cruz-González was born in 1953, in Mexico City,[1]. She is the daughter of two artists, her father Carlos Cruz-González Aliphat was a landscape designer and her mother Rebeca Espinosa was an artist. Her brother Carlos Cruz-González was also an astronomer who died early in his research career. She is married to the mathematician Javier Bracho and has two sons Felipe and Adrian Bracho Cruz-González. She studied physics as an undergraduate at UNAM and worked on a BSc dissertation in astronomy supervised by Silvia Torres-Peimbert. Afterwards Irene Cruz-González went to Harvard University for graduate study in astronomy, earning a master's degree in 1979 under the supervision of Giovanni Fazio and a Ph.D. in 1984.[1][2] Her doctoral dissertation, Continuum distributions of active galactic nuclei, was supervised by John Huchra.[3]
She returned to Mexico and joined the UNAM Institute of Astronomy as a researcher in 1984.[1][2]
Book
With Abraham Nosnik and Elsa Recillas, Irene Cruz-González is a coauthor of a book on Galileo, El hombre de la torre inclinada: Galileo Galilei (1st ed., Gatopardo, 1985; edited also in Chile and Colombia).
