CURRENT POSITION
Visiting Research Associate at Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center (GEST), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) from October 2005
RESEARCH AREAS
Satellite and near surface magnetic field modeling at global and regional scale, Antarctic magnetism, magnetic surveys
EDUCATION 
1996 - BS (Physics) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2000 - MS (Geophysics) Observatori de l’Ebre-Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
[MS Thesis: El observatorio geomagnético de la Isla Livingston, Antártida. Descripción, guía de operación y análisis de los registros de campo magnético, in Spanish]
2004 - PhD (Geophysics) Observatori de l’Ebre-Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
[PhD Thesis: Analysis of the magnetic field in Antarctica from near-surface and satellite data, in English]
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1996-2000 
Member of the Geomagnetism Department, Ebre Geophysical Observatory, Spain
2001-2005 
Member of the Geomagnetism Department, National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy
2005 
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Gaya-Piqué L.R., Ravat D., De Santis A., Torta J.M., Improving the representation of time-varying core magnetic field of Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 2006 (in press).
Meloni A., Gaya-Piqué L.R., De Michelis P., De Santis A., Some Recent Characteristics of Geomagnetic Secular Variations in Antarctica. In: Antarctica: Contributions to global earth sciences, Fütterer D.K., Damaske D., Kleinschmidt G., Miller H., Tessensohn F. eds., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp 375­380, 2006.
Kim, H.R., Gaya-Piqué L.R., von Frese R.R.B., Taylor P.T., Kim J.W., CHAMP magnetic anomalies of the Antarctic Crust. In: Earth Observation with CHAMP. Results from Three Years in Orbit, Reigber C., Lühr H., Schwintzer P., Wickert J. eds., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 287-292, 2004. 
Gaya-Piqué L.R., De Santis A., Torta J.M., Use of Champ Magnetic Data to Improve the Antarctic Geomagnetic Reference Model. In: Earth Observation with CHAMP. Results from three years in orbit, Reigber C., Lühr H., Schwintzer P., Wickert J. eds, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 317-322, 2004.
De Santis A., Tozzi R., Gaya-Piqué L.R., Information content and K-entropy of the present geomagnetic field. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 218, N. 3-4, 269-275, 2004.
Duka B., Gaya-Piqué L.R., De Santis A., Bushati S., Chiappini M., Dominici G., A Geomagnetic Reference Model for Albania, Southern Italy and Ionian Sea for 1990-2005. Annals of Geophysics 47, N. 5, 1609-1615, 2004.
De Santis A., Gaya-Piqué L.R., Dominici G., Meloni A., Torta J.M., Tozzi R., ITalian Geomagnetic Reference Field ITGRF: update for 2000 and secular variation model up to 2005 by autoregressive forecasting. Annals of Geophysics 46, N. 3, 491-500, 2003. 
De Santis A., Torta J.M., Gaya-Piqué L.R., The first Antarctic Geomagnetic Reference Model (ARM). Geophysical Research Letters 29, N. 8, 33_1-33_4, 2002.
Torta J.M., Gaya-Piqué L.R., Riddick J.C., Turbitt C.W., A partly manned Geomagnetic Observatory in Antarctica provides a reliable data set. Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy 31, N. 1, 225-230, 2001.
Torta J.M., Gaya-Piqué L.R., Solé J.G., Blanco I., García A., A new geomagnetic observatory at Livingston Island (South Shetland Islands): implications for future regional magnetic surveys. Annali di Geofisica 42, N. 2, 141-151, 1999.