Joaquin Bohigas Bosch

Joaquin Bohigas Bosch, a recently retired professional astronomer, has been involved in research, teaching and outreach activities for the past 40 years. Born in Mexico City, he attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University of Oxford. He was a researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Astronomy, almost always at the institutional facilities in Ensenada, Mexico. Most of his career was directly related to investigating different manifestations of the interstellar medium, but he also spent part of his time teaching and in astronomy outreach activities, as well as presiding over and developing instrumentation for the National Astronomical Observatory in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California.