Team

 

Jorge Bravo-Abad

(Principal Investigator)

Professor (Profesor Titular), Condensed Matter Theory Department & Condensed Matter Physics Center, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Previous positions:

  • 2018 - 2019 , MIT

    Visiting Associate Professor - Fulbright Scholar, Physics Department

  • 2010 - 2016, UAM

    Ramón-y-Cajal Fellow, Assistant Professor, Condensed Matter Theory Department

  • 2007 - 2010, MIT:

    Postdoctoral Associate (Profs. M. Soljacic and J.D. Joannopoulos groups), Physics Department

  • 2006, PhD in Physics (advisors: Profs. F.J. García-Vidal and L. Martín Moreno), UAM

 
 

Juan José García-Esteban

(PhD student, FPU Fellowship)

 

Eva Ortíz

(PhD student, CAM Fellowship)

Javier Castro

(PhD student)

Marta Villalvilla

(Master student)

Gonzalo Ramírez

(Master student)

Daniel Ruano

(Undegraduate student)

Affiliated Faculty

Prof. Jaime Merino

Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Areas of expertise: Behavior of electronic systems in which Coulomb electron interactions are strong. Topics of interest include transport properties of strongly correlated metals, out-of-equibrium quantum many-body theory, superconductivity in strongly interacting systems, charge ordering phenomena in low dimensional materials, deriving effective model Hamiltonians for strongly correlated systems, quantum spin liquids, topological properties of materials and Kondo impurities in metals.  

Prof. Consuelo Álvarez-Galván

Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (ICP-CSIC).

Areas of expertise: CO2 conversion and circular chemistry. Experimental studies concerning environmental and energy-related catalysis and chemical processes, going from fundamentals to applied research. Research work aimed at understanding the key parameters that control the reactivity and selectivity, following a rational design strategy to optimize catalysts. Research on the dynamic evolution under reaction followed using operando and in-situ characterization techniques in order to facilitate the screening.

Prof. César González

Associate Professor at the Materials Physics Department at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Areas of expertise: Simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT); Electronic transport on nanostructured materials: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM); Mechanical properties of materials at the nanoscale: Atomic Force Microscopy; Molecular adsorption and dissociation on defected materials; 2D materials (graphene, MoS2).

Lab alumni

  • Michel Frising, PhD student. Thesis title: "Machine learning for probabilistic inverse design in nanophotonics", 2019-2023 (La Caixa Fellowship, co-adviced with Prof. Ferry Prins).

  • Iñaki García-Elcano, PhD student. Thesis title: "Light-matter interaction in photonic Weyl systems", 2018-2022 (FPU Fellowship, co-adviced with Prof. Alejandro González-Tudela).

  • Javier Cuerda, PhD student. Thesis title: "Plasmonics for lasing action at the nanoscale", 2013-2017 (FPI Fellowship, co-adviced with Prof. Francisco José García-Vidal).

  • Fátima Cerezo, Master student. Thesis title: "Quantum spin liquids in Kitaev ladders", 2023-2024 (co-adviced with Prof. Jaime Merino).

  • Javier Castro, Master student. Thesis title: "Mott transition in nodal semimetals", 2023-2024 (co-adviced with Prof. Jaime Merino).

  • Miguel Dalmau, Master student. Thesis title: "Graph convolutional neural networks for the prediction of properties of small organic molecules", 2021-2022 (co-adviced with Prof. Eduardo Hernández).

  • David Alonso, Master student. Thesis title: "A deep learning approach to light transmission through single subwavelength apertures", 2020-2021 (co-adviced with Prof. Ferry Prins).

  • Juan José García, Master student. Thesis title: "Deep learning in radiative heat transfer", 2019-2020 (co-adviced with Prof. Juan Carlos Cuevas).

  • Iñaki García, Master student. Thesis title: “Fractional decay of a single quantum emitter coupled to a three- dimensional gapped photonic crystal”, 2017-2018.

  • Andrea García, Master student. Thesis title: "Exploring topological physics with photonic systems", 2016-2017.

  • José Antonio Moreno, Master student. Thesis title: "Study of light trapping properties in photonic systems with Dirac cones", 2014-2015.

  • Carlos González, Master student. Thesis title: "Negative conductivity of optically pumped graphene", 2012-2013 (co-adviced with Prof. Francisco José García-Vidal).

  • Pablo Gallego, Undergraduate student. Thesis title: "Application of deep learning techniques to the simulation of light scattering by a metallic particle", 2021-2022 (co-adviced with Prof. Esteban Moreno).

  • Roberto Rodiño, Undergraduate student. Thesis title: "Artificial intelligence for the simulation of nanophotonic structures", 2019-2020.

  • Iñaki García, Undergraduate student. Thesis title: "Fractional decay of a single quantum emitter coupled to a three-dimensional gapped photonic crystal", 2016-2017.

  • Sofía Sanz, Undergraduate student. Thesis title: "Theoretical Study of the Properties of a Photonic Analog to Graphene", 2015-2016.