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Name: Hector Martin Crocce
Date: Enero 26, 2009
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PERSONAL DATA
Family name: CROCCE
Forename: Hector Martin
ID/Passport no: 24644275 Date of birth : October 28, 1975 Gender: M
Nationality: Argentina – Italiana
PRESENT PROFESIONAL POSITION
Institution:
CSIC
Faculty, School or Institute: Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (IEEC/ICE)
Department:
Astrofisica y Cosmologia
Address: Facultat de Ciencies UAB, Torre C5-Par-2ª Planta, Bellaterra (08193
BARCELONA)
Country:
SPAIN
Telephone (indicate prefix, number and extension): +34 (93) 581 4360
Fax: +34 (93) 581 4354
E-mail: crocce@ieec.uab.es
Field of study (UNESCO codes): 2101
Profesional status: Postdoctoral researcher Start date: 01/2008
Juan de la Cierva Fellow
Administrative status
Permanent Staff Hired on contracts Acting Fellowship holder
Others specify:
Full-time
Part-time
PRESENT RESEARCH AREA
Theoretical cosmology. Large scale structure in the Universe. N-body simulations. Estimation of
Cosmological Parameter. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Bachelor Centre Date
Licenciatura en Fisica
Departamento de Fisica
Universidad de Buenos Aires – Argentina
03/1995 to 02/2001
Ph.D. Centre Thesis Supervisor Date
Center for Cosmology and Thesis: Renormalized
07/2001
Ph.D. in Physics Particle Physics (CCPP) Cosmological Perturbation Theory
02/2007
New York University – USA Advisor : Roman Sccocimarro

PAST SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE (*)
Position R&D Centre Institution (**) Start date End date
Postdoctoral researcher
Institute of Space
Science (CSIC - IEEC)
04 / 2007 12 / 2007
Juan de la Cierva fellow
Institute of Space
Science (CSIC - IEEC)
01 / 2008 01 / 2011
(*) The information contained in this chart will be used to verify the placement requirements, according to the
section twenty-fourth.3 of the Call. (**) If the Institution is a “joint centre”, you should specify all the centres involved
in running it.
LANGUAGES (N = NORMAL, G = GOOD, P = PERFECTLY)
Language Speaking Reading Writing
Spanish P P P
English P P P

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
PROJECT TITLE: Physics of the Accelerating Universe, Code Consolider-Ingenio CSD2007-00060
FINANCIAL ENTITY: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)
LENGHT FROM: 10 / 2007 TO: 10 / 2010
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Enrique Fernandez BUDGET: 5,000,000 EU
PROJECT TITLE:
FINANCIAL ENTITY:
The Dark Energy Survey
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain), Dirección General de Investigación,
AYA2006-06341
LENGTH FROM: 10 / 2006 TO: 10 / 2009
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Enrique Gaztañaga BUDGET: 350,000 EU
PROJECT TITLE: New Approach to gravitacional clustering and improved cosmological parameter
estimation
FINANCIAL ENTITY: National Science Foundation (USA) grant AST-0607747
LENGHT FROM: 2006 TO: 2008
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Roman Scoccimarro (New York University – USA)
PROJECT TITLE:
FINANCIAL ENTITY:
Dynamical Aspects of the Casimir Effect
Fundacion Antorchas, Argentina, under the grant “Subsidies for the collaboration with
foreing researchers”
LENGHT FROM: 2003 TO: 2005
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Francisco D. Mazzitelli (FCEyN – UBA – Argentina)
Diego A. R. Dalvit (Los Alamos National Laboratory – USA)
Foreign Researchers:
Héctor Martín Crocce (NYU – USA), Peter W. Milonni (LANL – USA), Roberto Onofrio (LANL – USA)
National Researchers:
Francisco D. Mazzitelli (FCEyN, UBA), Fernando C. Lombardo (FCEyN, UBA)

PUBLICATIONS
Indicate volume, first and last page (year) and Key.
Key: B= full book, CB.= chapter of book, A= article, R= review, E= editor
(*) Those publications in process and not yet published, just specify publication status. (**) Optionally specify the
most important aspects of each publication to assess quality (e.g. journal impact index, journal position on lists of
the corresponding fields, cites received or other repercussion indicators)
AUTHORS:
TITLE:
Ariel G. Sanchez, Martin Crocce, Anna Cabre, Carlton M. Baugh and Enrique Gaztañaga
Cosmological Parameter Constraints from SDSS luminous red galaxies: a new treatment of large
scale clustering
JOURNAL: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2009), submited [eprint arXiv: 0901.2570]
KEY: A
AUTHORS: Francesco Shankar, Martin Crocce, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Pablo Fosalba and David H. Weingber
TITLE: On the radiative efficiencies, Eddington ratios, and duty cycles of luminous high-redshift quasars
JOURNAL: Astrophysical Journal (2008), submitted [eprint arXiv: 0810.4919]
KEY: A
AUTHORS:
TITLE:
Enrique Gaztañaga, Anna Cabré, Francisco Castander, Martin Crocce and Pablo Fosalba
Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies III: Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the 3-point
Correlation Function
JOURNAL: Physical Review D (2008), submitted [eprint arXiv: 0807.2448]
KEY: A
AUTHORS: Narciso Benitez, Enrique Gaztañaga, Ramon Miquel, Francisco Castander, Mariano Moles,
Martin Crocce and 23 co-authors
TITLE: Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations along the line of sight with photometric redshifs: the PAU
survey
JOURNAL: Astrophysical Journal, v 691, p 241-260, (2009)
KEY: A
AUTHORS: Francis Bernardeau, Martin Crocce, Roman Scoccimarro
TITLE: Multi-Point Propagators in Cosmological Gravitational Instabilit
JOURNAL: Physical Review D, v 78, id 103521 (2008) KEY: A
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce and Roman Scoccimarro
TITLE: Nonlinear Evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
JOURNAL: Physical Review D, v 77, id 023533 (2008) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 43 citations (ADS index, http://adsabs.harvard.edu)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce, Sebastian Pueblas and Roman Scoccimarro
TITLE: Transients from Initial Conditions in Cosmological Simulations
JOURNAL: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v 373, p 369–381 (2006)
KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 35 citations (ADS index)

AUTHORS: Emiliano Sefusatti, Martin Crocce, Sebastian Pueblas and Roman Scoccimarro
TITLE: Cosmology and the Bispectrum
JOURNAL: Physical Review D, v 74, id 023522 (2006) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 17 citations (ADS index)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce and Roman Scoccimarro
TITLE: Memory of Initial Conditions in Gravitational Clustering
JOURNAL: Physical Review D, v 73, id 063520 (2005) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 35 citations (ADS index)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce and Roman Scoccimarro
TITLE: Renormalized Cosmological Perturbation Theory
JOURNAL: Physical Review D, v 73, id 063519 (2005) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 43 citations (ADS index)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce, Diego. A. R. Dalvit, Fernando C. Lombardo and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
TITLE: Hertz potentials approach to the dynamical Casimir effect in cylindrical cavities of arbitrary section
JOURNAL: Journal of Optics B : Quantum Semiclass. Opt. v 7, p S32-S39 (2005) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 7 citations (ADS index)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce, Diego. A. R. Dalvit, Fernando C. Lombardo and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
TITLE: Model for resonant photon creation in a cavity with a time-dependent conductivity
JOURNAL: Physical Review A, v 70, id 033811 (2004) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 18 citations (ADS)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce, Diego. A. R. Dalvit and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
TITLE: Quantum Electromagnetic field in a three-dimensional oscillating cavity
JOURNAL: Physical Review A, v 66, id 033811 (2002) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 31 citations (ADS index)
AUTHORS: Martin Crocce, Diego. A. R. Dalvit and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
TITLE: Resonant photon creation in a three dimensional oscillating cavity
JOURNAL: Physical Review A, v 64, id 013808 (2001) KEY: A
MOST OUTSTANDING ASPECTS (**): 35 citations (ADS index)

FELLOWSHIPS
NAME:
Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship
FINANCIAL ENTITIES: Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) – Spain
LENGTH FROM: 04/2008 TO: 04/2011
MOTIVE:
to pursue post-doctoral research
NAME:
Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship
FINANCIAL ENTITIES: Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University – USA
LENGHT FROM: 09/2001 TO: 05/2007
MOTIVE:
to pursue graduate studies
NAME:
Internal Doctoral Fellowship
FINANCIAL ENTITIES: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas – Argentina
LENGHT FROM: 04/2001 TO: 09/2001
MOTIVE:
to pursue graduate studies (resigned)
NAME:
Stimulus Scholarship
FINANCIAL ENTITIES: Secretaria de Extension Universitaria – Universidad de Buenos Aires
LENGHT FROM: 07/1999 TO: 02/2001
MOTIVE:
to fund an undergraduate research project. Project title: `New Aspects of the Casimir
Effect'
NAME:
Undergraduate Scholarship
FINANCIAL ENTITIES: Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica – Argentina
LENGHT FROM: 08/1997 TO: 02/1998
MOTIVE:
undergraduate studies at the Balseiro Institute, that belongs to the Argentine National
Atomic Commission and the University of Cuyo – Argentina

STAYS IN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CENTRES
KEY: D=Ph. D student, P=postdoctoral. G= guest, S=staff, I= invited, O=others (specify)
CENTRE: Penn Astrophysics Group
PLACE: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
DATE: March 2007 LENGHT: 3 days
TOPIC: Renormalizad Perturbation Theory and Halo Model KEY: G
CENTRE: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
PLACE: Garching, Germany
DATE: October 2008 LENGHT: 9 days
TOPIC: modeling of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations KEY: I
CENTRE: Institute for Theoretical Physics
PLACE: University of Zurich – Zurich – Switzerland
DATE: March 2007 LENGHT: 8 days
TOPIC: nonlinear clustering and large scale structure KEY: I
CENTRE: Center for Particle Physics – Fermilab
PLACE: Fermi National Laboratory – Batavia – USA
DATE: February 2008 LENGHT: 1 month
TOPIC: Clustering of Clusters, Dark Enery Survey KEY: I
CENTRE: Service de Physique Théorique
PLACE: CEA / Saclay – France
DATE: March 2007 LENGHT: 8 days
TOPIC: Higher order statistics in Renormalizad Perturbation Theory KEY: I
CENTRE: Service de Physique Théorique
PLACE: CEA / Saclay – France
DATE: December 2006 LENGHT: 5 days
TOPIC: Higher order statistics in Renormalizad Perturbation Theory KEY: I
CENTRE: Institute of Space Science (ICE/CSIC) – Group of Astrophysics and Cosmology
PLACE: Bellaterra – Spain
DATE: October 2006 LENGHT: 3 months
TOPIC: N-body simulations, large scales, Measure of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations KEY: D
CENTRE: Theoretical Division - Los Alamos National Laboratory
PLACE: Los Alamos – USA
DATE: May 2003 LENGHT: 9 days
TOPIC: Dynamical Casimir Effect KEY: I

PRESENTATIONS IN CONGRESSES AND CONGRESS ASSISTANCE
PRESENTATION: Invited Talk
TITLE:
Nonlinear Structure Formation from Theory and Simulations
CONGRESS:
CosmoTools Workshop
(http://lamwws.oamp.fr/cosmowiki/WorkshopCosmoTools)
MEETING PLACE: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) – Marseille – France
DATE: April 23 rd to 25 th , 2008
CONGRESS:
3 rd Biennial Leopoldina Conference on Dark Energy
MEETING PLACE: Ludwing-Maximilians – University of Munich – Munich - Germany
DATE: Oct 7 th to 11 th , 2008
PRESENTATION: Invited Talk
TITLE:
Nonlinear Structure Formation from Theory and Simulations
CONGRESS:
Modern Cosmology (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2008cosmology/2008cosmology.htm)
MEETING PLACE: Center for Science Pedro Pascual – Benasque – Spain
DATE: August 1 st to 8 th , 2008
PRESENTATION: Talk
TITLE:
The Bispectrum in Renormalized Perturbation Theory
CONGRESS:
Higher Order Statistics in Cosmology
(http://www.sdss2005.info/higher/index.html)
MEETING PLACE: Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation – Univ. of Portsmouth – Portsmouth – UK
DATE: Jul 20 th , 2007
PRESENTATION: Invited Talk
TITLE:
The Bispectrum in Renormalized Perturbation Theory
CONGRESS:
Life Beyond the Gaussian
(http://kicp-workshops.uchicago.edu/lbg-2007/)
MEETING PLACE: KICP – University of Chicago – Chicago – USA
DATE: Jun 6 th to 8 th , 2007
PRESENTATION: Talk
TITLE:
Nonlinear Evolution of Acoustic Oscillations
CONGRESS:
Astroparticle and Cosmology
(http://ggi-www.fi.infn.it//index.phpp=workshops.inc&id=6)
MEETING PLACE: Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics – Florence – Italy
DATE: Oct 30 th to Nov 3 rd , 2007
CONGRESS: SF06 Cosmology Summer Workshop 2006
MEETING PLACE: St. John's College – Santa Fe – USA
YEAR: Jul 9 th to 15 th , 2006
PRESENTATION: Poster (authors: Martin Crocce and Roman Scoccimarro)
TITLE:
Growth of Perturbations: How memory of initial conditions is lost
CONGRESS:
Computational Cosmology
MEETING PLACE: International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICPT) - Trieste - Italy
YEAR: May 31 st to Jun 5 th , 2005

PRESENTATION: Poster (authors: Martin Crocce and Roman Scoccimarro)
TITLE:
Growth of Perturbations: Loosing the Memory of Initial Conditions
CONGRESS:
2nd Advanced Chilean School of Astrophysics
MEETING PLACE: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC) - Santiago - Chile
YEAR: Dec 6 th to 10 th , 2004
CONGRESS:
Fifth J. J. Giambiagi Winter School: Precision Cosmology
MEETING PLACE: University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – Buenos Aires – Argentina
YEAR: Jul 28 th to Aug 3 rd , 2003
CONGRESS:
Workshop on Casimir Forces: Recent Developments in Experiment and Theory
MEETING PLACE: Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics – Boston – USA
YEAR: Nov 14 th to 16 nd , 2002
PRESENTATION: Poster (authors: Martin Crocce and Diego Mazzitelli)
TITLE:
Photon creation in a three dimensional resonant cavity
CONGRESS:
85th Meeting of the Argentine Physical Society
MEETING PLACE: University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – Buenos Aires – Argentina
YEAR: Sep 18 th to 22 nd , 2000
COLLABORATION MEETINGS
MEETING TITLE: Dark Energy Survey International Collaboration Meeting
PRESENTATION: Update on MICE simulations (short talk)
MEETING PLACE: Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics (CCAPP) – Columbus – Ohio – USA
DATE: Nov 6 th to 10 th , 2008
MEETING TITLE: Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey Collaboration Meeting
PRESENTATION: Update on SAT working group (short talk)
MEETING PLACE: Instituto de Física de Altas Energías (IFAE / UAB) – Barcelona – Spain
DATE: May 19 th to 20 th , 2008
MEETING TITLE: Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey Collaboration Meeting
MEETING PLACE: University of Zaragoza – Teruel – Spain
DATE: Sep 20 th to 21 st , 2007
MEETING TITLE: Dark Energy Survey International Collaboration Meeting
MEETING PLACE: University College London (UCL) – London – UK
DATE: Sep 10 th to 12 th , 2007

INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS
TITLE: Structure Formation from Theory and Simulations
PLACE: Max-Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) – Garching – Germany
DATE: October 12 th , 2008
TITLE: New Insight into Gravitational Clustering
PLACE: Institute for Theoretical Physics – University of Zurich – Zurich - Switzerland
DATE: November 23 rd , 2008
TITLE: Unveiling Gravitational Clustering
PLACE: Center for Particle Physics – Fermi National Laboratory – Batavia – USA
DATE: March 3 rd , 2008
TITLE: Renormalized Perturbation Theory: A New Approach to Gravitational Clustering
PLACE: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies – Dublin – Ireland
DATE: October 12 th , 2007
TITLE: Nonlinear Evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
PLACE: Institute for Computational Cosmology – University of Durham – Durham – UK
DATE: May 16 th , 2007
TITLE: Renormalized Cosmological Perturbation Theory
PLACE: Service de Physique Théorique – C. E. de Saclay – France
DATE: March 14 th , 2007
TITLE: Nonlinear Evolution of the Acoustic Signature
PLACE: Service de Physique Théorique – C. E. de Saclay – France
DATE: December 5 th , 2006
TITLE: Setting Initial Conditions in Cosmological Simulations
PLACE: Institute of Space Science (IEEC – CSIC) – Barcelona – Spain
DATE: November 28 th , 2006
TITLE: Nonlinear Evolution of Acoustic Oscillations
PLACE: Institute of Space Science (IEEC – CSIC) - Barcelona - Spain
DATE: November 8 th , 2006
TITLE: A New Angle on Perturbation Theory and Gravitational Clustering
PLACE: Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics - New York University - USA
DATE: November 29 th , 2004

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INSTITUTION: New York University - Department of Physics
POSITION: Teaching assistant: General Physics I - Natural Science I - Various Morse Academic Plan
courses for non-Physics majors
DATE: September 2001 to September 2006
INSTITUTION: Universidad de Buenos - Departamento de Fisica
POSITION: Teaching assistant: Optics and thermodynamics
DATE: April 1999 to December 2000
INSTITUTION: Universidad de Buenos Aires - Departamento de Matematica, Fisica y Quimica (CBC)
POSITION: Teaching assistant: Algebra for economical sciences
DATE: March 1998 to February 1999
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee, Astrophysical Journal
Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Referee, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
THESIS MEMBER COMMITTEE
NAME: Dr Marc Manera
THESIS TITLE: Cosmología i Formació d’Estructures
INSTITUTION: University of Barcelona – Barcelona – Spain
DATE: May 2007