I am an experimental physicist specialising in the study of ultracold quantum gases and quantum simulation. My research focuses on trapping, cooling and manipulating individual atoms to study complex phenomena in quantum physics within highly controlled systems. I use these systems as quantum simulators to recreate and understand how new properties of matter emerge when many particles interact with one another.
I studied physics at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and subsequently completed a master’s degree at the University of Bonn, Germany. I obtained my PhD at the ICFO (Institute of Photonic Sciences) in Barcelona, where I took part in pioneering experiments with ultracold quantum gases, including the first observation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in Spain. I later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich and at the Institute of Quantum Physics in Hamburg, where I focused on the study of strongly correlated quantum systems and the development of microscopy techniques to observe and manipulate individual atoms.
I am currently setting up a new quantum simulation laboratory at the IGFAE. There, I will be conducting experiments based on dipole atoms. This project is funded by an ERC Starting Grant and aims to explore new forms of quantum matter and help train a new generation of researchers in this field in Galicia.
