Curriculum Vitae

Positions

• Starting September-2024: Ramón y Cajal Fellow (tenure track)
  • Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medio-Ambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid.
• October-2022 to August 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona.
• June-2021 to September-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC)
• March-2019 to May-2021: Postdoctoral Intertalentum MSCA fellow
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC)
• October-2016 to February-2019: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
  • Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK
• October 2012 to July 2016: FPI-UAM Predoctoral Researcher fellow
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC)
  • Visitorship to University of Western Australia: Jan-Mar 2014 & Feb-Apr 2015
• September 2011 to June 2012: La Caixa postgraduate fellow
  • Université Paris Diderot

Education

• 2012-2016 Ph.D in Theoretical Physics
  Large Scale Structure: from simulations to observations
  Honours (Cum Laude), International Doctorate
  Supervisors: Alexander Knebe, Juan García-Bellido

• Jan-Apr 2014 & Feb-May 2015: pre-doctoral research stay
  University of Western Australia. Sup.: Chris Power.

• 2011-2012 Master NPAC: Nuclei, Particles, Astroparticles & Cosmology
  Université Paris Diderot (1st)
  • MSc final project on Cosmic Inflation, supervised by Danièle Steer (APC).

• 2006-2011 Licenciatura en Física
  Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• 2009-2010 Erasmus Exchange programme
  University of Nottingham

Publication summary

• My research has led to >200 peer-reviewed articles with >20,000 citations and h-index of 79 (ADS/NASA)
• 47 papers excluding those signed as builder (h=28).
• I led 11 papers:
  • 8 as first-author
    • Including 1 Nature Astronomy perspective
  • 2 collaboration alphabetical papers as lead and corresponding author (DES Y6 BAO; DES BAO & SN cosmology)
  • 1 letter (bias-zero-PNG), where I am the sole corresponding author.
  • 5 of them surpassing the 50 citations.
• >25 publications being a top-three author.

PhD Supervision

More details of these 6 PhD thesis and the 5 TFM I supervised on teaching.

• Oct-2017 to Mar-2021: Supervision of the PhD of Mike S. Wang
  Theoretical Considerations in Large-Scale Structure Analsysis .
  University of Portsmouth
• Mar-2019 to Sep-2023: Supervision of the PhD of Walter Riquelme
  Primordial Non-Gaussianities with the Dark Energy Survey .
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Nov-2019 to Sep-2024: Supervision of the PhD of Guillermo Reyes
  Exploring Halo Occupation Dsitribution models to characterize H-alpha Euclid galaxies .
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Mar-2021 to Oct-2024: Supervision of the PhD of Bernhard Vos Ginés
  Galaxy formation and multi-tracer cosmology .
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Mar-2022 to Sep-2025: Supervision of the PhD of Adrián Gutiérrez Adame
  Response of different cosmic tracers to Primordial Non-Gaussianity: the influence of galaxy formation. .
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Mar-2025 to (exp.) Feb-2029: Supevision of the PhD of Manuel F. Herrera-Ruiz Bernal Validating DESI cosmological analyses with simulations

Funding

• Plan Nacional 2025-2028. Cosmología con Cartografiados de Galaxias. PID2024-156844NA-C22 AYA. Principal Investigator. 203k€.
• Ramón y Cajal Fellwoship 2024-2029. RYC2022-037311-I. 244k€.
• Intertalentum Fellowshop: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) - COFUND. 147k€. Measuring the initial consitions of the universe with Euclid and SKA
• Juan de la Cierva Formación - 2017. Granted not taken due to incompatiblities.
• FPI-UAM PhD Felloship: 72k€.
• FPI-UAM Research Stay grants. Visit to UWA in 2014 & 2014: 9K€
• FPU PhD Fellowship - 2012. Granted not taken due to incompatiblities.
• PI of 3 successful Red Española de Supercomputacion proposals (abstracts 2021-3; 2022-2; 2022-3; 2023-1. Total: 4.7 Million CPU-h). The PNG-UNITsim program that I founded had >10M CPU-h, with the latest grants led by my (former) PhD studetns.

Refereeing and Panelist

• Journal Referee
  • Nature Astronomy
  • MNRAS
  • A&A
  • JCAP
  • Internal Reviewer in DES, DESI & Euclid.
• PhD Panels
  • Ruben Arjona: UAM Sep-2021
  • Martín Rodríguez Monroy: UCM Nov-2021
  • Juan Mena-Fernández: UCM Oct-2023
  • David Sanchez Cid: UCM Oct-2024
  • Emanuele Fondi: UB Sep-2025
  • Dane Cross: UAB Jun-2026
  • William d’Assignies: UAB Jun-2026
• Euclid STAR prize panel: 2022 & 2023.

Talk summary

I have participated in over 80 conferences/meetings, mostly giving talks, sometimes chairing/organising sessions and, in several occasions, under invitation or as plenary speaker. I gave seminars at UAM, ICG, JPL/NASA, and Linea-Brazil, University of Cape Town, UWC, IFAE.

I was the main organiser of the workshop “A cosmic window to fundamental physics: Primordial Non-Gaussianities and beyond”. And tparticipated as SOC/LOC in COSMO’23, in charge of managing the LSS talks.