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Armesto Pérez, Néstor

nestor.armesto@usc.es

(+34) 881814107

Block IV-13C

Scopus Author ID

7003989243

Research ID

C-4341-2017

Bio

I got my physics bachelor at the UAM in 1991 and my PhD at the USC in 1995. Afterwards I made postdoctoral stays at LPT Orsay and Universität Hamburg, to become associate professor in physics at Universidad de Córdoba in the period 1998-2002. Then I was Fellow at CERN to come back to IGFAE at the USC in 2005 with a Ramón y Cajal contract. I became associate professor in 2010 and full professor in 2020. I am a theoretical physicist. My main research interest is the behaviour of the strong interaction and of the quantum field theory that describes it, QCD, at large energies and parton densities. Specifically, I work on the description of hadron and nuclear wave functions and of the first instants of a hadronic collision, in the framework of the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory. These aspects are studied nowadays in collisions between protons and nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and in the future in electron-ion colliders: the Electron-Ion Collider at BNL in the US and the proposed Large Hadron-electron Collider at CERN of which I am member of the coordination committee. I also work on the characterisation of the matter created in such collisions through perturbative probes: jet quenching and quarkonium suppression. Besides, I am interested in high energy cosmic ray physics, on the behaviour of open quantum systems and on the thermalisation and emergence problems in QCD.

Recent Projects

  • Cromodinámica Cuántica en condiciones extremas - QCDEXT - GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO 2023 - Proye...
  • Cromodinámica Cuántica en condiciones extremas - QCDEXT - GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO 2023 - Proye...
  • XXIX International Workshop on Deep-InelasticScattering and Related Subjects DIS2022
  • XXIX International Workshop on Deep-InelasticScattering and Related Subjects DIS2022
  • XXIX International Workshop on Deep-InelasticScattering and Related Subjects DIS2022
  • XXIX International Workshop on Deep-InelasticScattering and Related Subjects DIS2022
  • Heavy ion collisions: collectivity and precision in saturation physics (HIEIC)
  • Heavy ion collisions: collectivity and precision in saturation physics (HIEIC)
  • Acuerdo de confidencialidad Programa de Agrupaciones Estratégicas de la Xunta de Galicia y otras iniciativas de alcance similar
  • Participación en el Observatorio Pierre Auger: AugerPrime. - RETOS 2015

nestor.armesto@usc.es

(+34) 881814107

Block IV-13C

Scopus Author ID

7003989243

Research ID

C-4341-2017