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J. L. Rasilla is a key figure in astronomical instrumentation, with a career centered on the development of cutting-edge near-infrared (NIR) capabilities for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), one of the world’s largest optical telescopes. His primary research area is the design, construction, and verification of complex multi-object spectrographs and imagers. Rasilla’s most significant contribution is his leading role in EMIR (the GTC NIR Multi-Object Imager-Spectrograph), a flagship instrument that enables simultaneous spectroscopy of dozens of celestial sources in the near-infrared. His work spans the instrument’s entire lifecycle—from early design and fabrication through to the critical assembly, integration, and verification (AIV) phase. The foundational paper “EMIR: the GTC NIR multi-object imager-spectrograph” (2006) has accumulated 27 citations, serving as a primary reference for the instrument’s capabilities. Subsequent work on EMIR’s verification (2014) further solidified its operational readiness. By helping bring EMIR from concept to a fully verified common-user instrument, Rasilla has directly empowered astronomers to study star formation, galaxy evolution, and the distant universe with unprecedented NIR sensitivity.