Career

Academic appointments

2025–present

Professor Agregat (Associate Professor)
Universitat de Barcelona · ICCUB

2022–2025

Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Universitat de Barcelona

2021–2022

Senior Fellow
CERN, Geneva

2018–2021

Simons Foundation “It from Qubit” Postdoctoral Fellow
Instituto Balseiro · Centro Atómico Bariloche

2015–2018

FWO Postdoctoral Fellow
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica · KU Leuven

Education

2017–present

Bachelor degree in Economics
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
In progress: 168/240 ECTS completed

2011–2015

PhD in Theoretical Physics
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC · highest distinction (cum laude)
Advisor: Tomás Ortín · Supergravity, black holes and holography

2011–2013

MSc in Theoretical Physics
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · 120 ECTS

2006–2011

Licentiate degree in Physics
Universidad de Oviedo · Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics · 312 ECTS
Placed first with distinction · Premio fin de carrera · average mark 9.55/10

Awards, fellowships and distinctions

Certificado R3, ANECA (2023).
Consolidación Investigadora 2023, Spanish Ministry of Science — project Quantum field theory from entanglement; evaluation score 99/100.
Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (2020), selected 6th among 222 applicants in the Physical Sciences call.
“la Caixa” Junior Leader Incoming Fellowship (2021; declined to take up the CERN fellowship).
Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at CERN (awarded 2020).
Gravity Research Foundation Honorable Mention (2019), for Cosmic inflation without inflaton.
Simons Foundation “It from Qubit” Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018–2021).
Gravity Research Foundation Honorable Mention (2017), for Universally Stable Black Holes.
FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015–2018).
Perimeter Institute Visiting Graduate Fellowship (2013).
Universidad de Oviedo Premio fin de carrera in Physics (2011).