Ricardo Cirera Salse (Os de Balaguer, 1864-Barcelona, August 1932) was a geomagnetist who conducted the first geomagnetic survey of the Philippines and who founded the El Ebro Observatory in Roquetes (1904), Catalonia, Spain.[1] [2] He was a member of the Society of Jesus.[2] He was involved in the founding of the popular science magazine Ibérica.[1] Due to his work Cirera was given the Alfonso XII Grand Cross of Civil Merit by the Infanta Isabel de Borbón on 7 November 1914.[1]