Vicent J. Martínez

Vicent J. Martínez is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Valencia. He was the director of the Observatory Astronomical for 11 years. He researches cosmology, particularly the study of the large-scale distribution of galaxies. He is co-author of two university textbooks, Fundamental Astronomy and Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution. He received the European Award for Scientific Dissemination and the Prismas Award House of Sciences. He has published regular articles in newspapers and press specialized in scientific dissemination, such as Mètode magazine. He is co-author, together with Bernard J. T. Jones and Virginia Trimble, of the book The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance (2024).