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From September 2023 I am reader professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) in the Applied Mathematics for ICT Dep. at ETSIST (Technical University of Madrid, UPM). On 2020, I obtained a tenured track position (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) on UPM. From 2021 I have been part of the ADAI project (PID2021-124473NB-I00). The post-doctoral and pre-doctoral stages of my career could be very briefly summarised as:
Concerning my post-doctoral career, on 2019 I started a INFN fellowship in the Florence Particle Physics and Cosmology Group at INFN-Firenze. I was going to resume my research lines about collider phenomenology. Unfortunately, the COVID19 pandemic struck few months after arriving Florence. Anyhow, I managed to resume this line of research with my old PhD collaborators, as it can be checked on my last publications.
On 2017, I started my first post-doc in the T30f group in the TUM (Munich) with a post-doctoral grant from the Ramon Areces Foundation. This first post-doctoral experience implied joining and international lattice collaboration, TUMQCD, and getting first-hands experience on the highly computational field of lattice QCD. I also acquire cutting-edge computational knowledge via the LRZ courses on computational techniques.
On 2016 I defended my PhD on phenomenological collider physics. This PhD involved the usage of several packages of computational algebra (Mathematica and the FormCalc interface to FORM, also Maple) and Monte-Carlo packages (MadGraph, Pythia, Delphes, the ROOT framework,...). I focused on both the analytical computations (via Mathematica) and on the computer simulations (Monte Carlo).
Before my PhD, I collaborated with Prof.F.Sols and Dr.I.Zapata under a short-term research contract in a project related with condensed matter (Anderson's model) using Maple, the applied mathematics computational framework PARI/GP and a tailored C++ program. On top of that, I obtained my Master in Teaching (UNED).
Focusing on my research lines and on the ADAI project in particular, I have contributed the pre-print (https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05421), working on the software repository "da_wilson" and on running the code on the ADAI computer.
I have been in charge of the technical part of the acquisition, administration and maintenance of the ADAI computer, acquired with the ADAI funding and a UPM co-funding. It is necessary for dealing with the massive algebraic (analytic) computation that the ADAI project involves. I faced several issues related with the novelty of the components. Most of them are related with a faulty NVMe SSD memory that lacked heat sink. In spite of all theses issues, the ADAI computer has been successfully used for the purposes of the two foundings.
I have also maintained some of my collaborations on theoretical physics. In particular, I recently developed the MaMuPaXS tool, aimed at numerically integrate total cross sections of $2\to n$ ($n=2,\,3\,4,\,5$) processes within the massless approximation. This tool, based on Fortran and Scipy (Python), was developed for the recent publication (DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2024)037 ). I also contributed several papers that are natural continuations of my PhD work on phenomenological collider physics.
The last five years I was also publishing my work at TUM. I have contributed the TUMQCD Collaboration paper (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.074503), focusing on the computational part of the project. Furthermore, I contribute several parts of the analysis Python scripts, checks on the transferred lattice configurations and adapting the QuantumFDTD framework to the relativistic Schrödinger Equation. With (at the time) Grad Student Mr. Sebastian Steinbeißer and post-doc Mr. Johannes Heinrich Weber we turned this part of the project into the publication of version 3 of QuantumFDTD computational framework.
Concerning the supervision of grad and Master students, I have recently proposed a bachelor thesis (PFG) on elliptic curves cryptography and I am currently supervising another bachelor thesis on image classification via machine learning algorithms for medical purposes (blood cells classification). Since the ADAI computer system was co-founded by the UPM, we are required to grant computer time for UPM users and, in particular, we granted computer time for this project, under the "training of future UPM researchers" section. I have recently directed a Master thesis (TFM). bout the Quantum Walk Algorithm and its performance. Specially comparing it with the Grover algorithm. Finally, the last months one of my bachelor thesis students defended his thesis about the mathematics of RSA cryptography.
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