Editorial Role
Guillermo Matías Gancio Gonzalez serves as editor for Open Access Journal of Astronomical Physics.
Biography
Guillermo Matias Gancio Gonzalez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1980. He is Head of Observatory and Project Manager at the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR), a research institute jointly operated by CONICET, CIC, and the National University of La Plata (UNLP). With more than two decades of experience, he specializes in the design, development, integration, and commissioning of electronic instrumentation, radio-frequency front-ends, digital back-ends, and embedded systems for radio astronomy, deep-space communications, and space missions.
He currently leads the development of the Lunar Antenna for Radio Astronomy (LARA), a lunar-orbit microsatellite payload intended to investigate low-frequency radio emissions inaccessible from Earth, and the MIA-PATHFINDER project, a 16-element radio interferometer designed as a technology demonstrator for next-generation aperture synthesis arrays. He has also played key technical roles in the development of digital back-end instrumentation for the CONAE Deep Space Antenna (DSA-3) and the CLTC Neuquén Deep Space Station, contributed to receiver and instrumentation developments for the Large Latin American Millimeter Array (LLAMA), and participated in instrumentation upgrades supporting long-term pulsar timing observations within the PuMA collaboration.
His experience in space instrumentation includes contributions to CONAE's Aquarius/SAC-D mission through the development of microwave radiometer subsystems and responsibility for the manufacturing and quality assurance of flight harnesses for VENG S.A.'s VEX launch vehicle program. His expertise has been reinforced through specialized training at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he obtained multiple certifications in high-reliability soldering, surface-mount technology, and cable and harness assembly, as well as at the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA), focusing on submillimeter receiver technology and digital spectrometers.
Gancio Gonzalez is the author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications in radio astronomy instrumentation, pulsar timing, interferometry, and observational astronomy, including articles published in Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. He actively supervises doctoral, master's, and undergraduate research in electronic engineering and astronomical instrumentation and serves on the Scientific Organizing Committees of international conferences related to radio astronomy and astronomical instrumentation.
Research Interest
Radio Astronomy; Space; Observatory Engineering