Jorge Casares VelázquezJorge Casares Velázquez is Professor of Astronomy at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife and was Leverhulme Professor at the Department of Astrophysics of the University of Oxford during 2016-17. His research focuses on the study of gaactic black holes, with emphasis on the determination of their dynamical masses. He has promoted novel strategies for deriving fundamental parameters in X-ray binaries and discovering hidden populations of galactic black-hole binaries. His other research interests include gamma-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables and millisecond pulsars. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and the Spanish Astronomical Society. Read More Read Less