Research is collaborative. The people below include long-standing collaborators, recent collaborators, and students whose projects I have supervised.
Collaborators
Robie A. Hennigar, Pablo A. Cano, Javier Moreno and Ángel J. Murcia have been among my main and most frequent collaborators, spanning different stages of my career and a broad range of topics in gravitational physics, black holes, higher-curvature gravity, holography and quantum field theory. In particular, my collaborations with Robie A. Hennigar and Pablo A. Cano extend over many years and cover a substantial fraction of my work on higher-curvature gravity and black-hole physics.
Beyond them, researchers with whom I have had particularly sustained and significant collaborations over the years include C. S. Shahbazi, Horacio Casini, Guido van der Velde, William Witczak-Krempa, Óscar Lasso Andino, Tomás Ortín, Robert C. Myers and César Alfonso Agón.
PhD supervision
2026–
Matteo Marrone
PhD in Theoretical Physics, ICCUB · Universitat de Barcelona
2026–
Mikaela Carrasco Hidalgo
PhD in Theoretical Physics, ICCUB · Universitat de Barcelona
2024–
Aitor Vicente Cano
PhD in Theoretical Physics, ICCUB · Universitat de Barcelona
2024
Quim Llorens
PhD, ICCUB · Universitat de Barcelona · co-supervised with Roberto Emparan
Brane-Worlds and Higher-Derivative Gravities · cum laude
2019
Pablo A. Cano
PhD, IFT UAM/CSIC · co-supervised with Tomás Ortín
Higher-Curvature Gravity, Black Holes and Holography · cum laude
MSc supervision
Bernat Garrofé i Pascual · Universitat de Barcelona · MSc in Theoretical Physics
Carlos O. Hunter · Universitat de Barcelona · 2025–2026 · Newcomb’s Paradox as a Postselected Closed Timelike Curve
Adrià Olives Salmerón · Universitat de Barcelona · 2025–2026 · co-supervised with Carlos S. Shahbazi · Magnetic geodesics on Brinkmann spacetimes from parallel spinors
Matteo Gabriel Marrone · Universitat de Barcelona · 2025–2026 · co-supervised with Robie A. Hennigar · Regular black holes
Sami Calvo i Muñoz · Universitat de Barcelona · 2025–2026 · co-supervised with Ángel J. Murcia · On extreme-mass-ratio mergers of spherical objects
Adam Fernández García · Universitat de Barcelona · 2024–2025 · New conformal bounds in higher dimensions
Rubén García Llorente · Universitat de Barcelona · 2023–2024 · Generalized quasi-topological gravities with covariant derivatives
Fereidoun Asadi · Munich University · 2022–2023 · Black holes and cosmic censorship in general three-dimensional gravities
Víctor Cotonat Gracia · Universitat de Barcelona · 2022–2023 · Mutual Information (and beyond) for free fields
Pablo A. Cano · IFT UAM/CSIC · 2015 · f(Lovelock) theories of gravity
BSc supervision
Gaietà de Casacuberta i Tarrida · Universitat de Barcelona · 2026 · current
Miquel Planes Vilar · Universitat de Barcelona · 2026 · current
Mònica Villaret Ribot · Universitat de Barcelona · 2026 · The Penrose process
Jordi Ávila López · Universitat de Barcelona · 2026 · Hawking radiation from different lenses
Sergi Dorado Andreu · Universitat de Barcelona · 2026 · Simulating Cosmological Billiard Models
Roger Picañol Narbona · Universitat de Barcelona · 2025 · Regular black holes
Miquel Farràs Busquets · Universitat de Barcelona · 2025 · Buchdahl Limits Beyond General Relativity
Elisabet Vallejo Pagès · Universitat de Barcelona · 2024 · Corrections to the Newtonian Potential
Pau Duran García · Universitat de Barcelona · 2024 · Mutual Information for Free Fields
Arnau Clavaguera Viñals · Universitat de Barcelona · 2024 · Extremality in Reissner–Nordström black holes
Emilio Rodríguez Amado · Universitat de Barcelona · 2023 · Birkhoff’s theorem for Einstein gravity and beyond
Ferran Rodríguez Mascaró · Universitat de Barcelona · 2023 · Holographic entanglement entropy
Fabricio Sergio Zevallos Rodriguez · Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa · 2022–2023 · Generalized Quasi-topological gravities
Renzo Kenyi Takagui Perez · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú · 2021–2022 · Entanglement entropy in quantum field theory and holography
Javier Meana · Universidad de Oviedo · 2017 · co-supervised with Carlos Hoyos · Holographic entanglement entropy
