Teaching & Supervision

Teaching

• Advanced Cosmology: Module on Large-Scale Structure.
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 2019-2022

• Mathematical Methods: Ordinary Differential Equations exercises.
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 2014-2016

PhD Supervision

• Manuel F. Herrera-Ruiz Bernal. CIEMAT, 2025-2029. Validating DESI cosmological analyses with simulations
  • CoLoRe-2LPT: Lyman-α mock catalogues for the validation of DESI cosmological analysis. MFHRB, Avila et al. in DESI internal review.
  • Validation of DESI DR3 BAO Lyman-alpha forest analysis. In preparation (incl. Avila)
  • Improving the modelling of Lyman alpha metals and high column density contamination. In preparation.
• Adrián Gutiérrez Adame. UAM, 2022-2025. Cosmological N-bodysimulationswith local-Primordialnon-Gaussianities
  • The PNGUNIT-XL simulations: validating the DESI PNG pipeline with DR2-like catalogues. AGA, Meneses, Rizo, Rivera, Avila et al. in DESI internal review
  • PNG-UNITsims: Halo clustering response to primordial non-Gaussianities as a function of mass. AGA, Avila, Gonzalez-Perez et al. 2024 MNRAS 689 69
  • Accurate N-body simulations with local primordial non-Gaussianities: Initial conditions and aliasing. AGA, Avila et al. 2026 A&A 705 20
  • Validating galaxy clustering models with Fixed & Paired and Matched-ICs simulations: application to Primordial Non-Gaussianities Avila & AGA 2023 MNRAS 519 3706
• Bernhard Vos-Ginés. UAM, 2020-2024. Gas and Galaxies: Tracers for Stage IV cosmological surveys
  • Improving and extending non-Poissonian distributions for satellite galaxies sampling in HOD: applications to eBOSS ELGs BVG, Avila, Gonzalez-Perez & Yepes 2024 MNRAS 530 3458
  • H I IM correlation function from UNIT simulations: BAO and observationally induced anisotropy Avila, BVG et al. 2022 MNRAS 510 292
• Guillermo Reyes-Peraza. IFT (UAM-CSIC), 2019-2024. Exploring Halo Occupation Dsitribution models to characterize H-alpha Euclid galaxies.
  • An improved halo occupation distribution prescription from UNITsim Hα emission-line galaxies: conformity and modified radial profile. GRP, Avila et al. 2024 MNRAS 529 3877.
• Walter Riquelme. IFT (laCaixa), 2019-2023. Primordial non-Gaussianity with the Dark Energy Survey
  • Primordial non-Gaussianity with Angular correlation function: Integral constraint and validation for DES. WR, Avila, Garcia-Bellido et al. 2023 MNRAS 523 603.
• Mike Shegbo Wang. University of Portsmouth. 2017-2021. Theoretical considerations in large-scale structure analyses . Focused on Primordial Non-Gaussianitites.
  • Cosmological inference from galaxy-clustering power spectrum: Gaussianization and covariance decomposition. MSW, Percival, Avila et al. 2019 MNRAS
  • Hybrid-basis inference for large-scale galaxy clustering: combining spherical and Cartesian Fourier analyses. MSW, Avila et al. 2020, JCAP 10 022
  • Impact of relativistic effects on the primordial non-Gaussianity signature in the large-scale clustering of quasars. MSW, Beutler and Bacon 2020 MNRAS 499 2598

MSc Supervision

• Oct-2025 to Sep-2026: Santiago Herraiz
  The contribution of variations in effective redshift on BAO measurements from galaxy surveys.
  Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• Oct-2024 to Sep-2025: Celia Merino León
  Studies of inflation models with cosmological simulations.
  Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Unclustered tracers remain unclustered: The lack of primordial non-Gaussianity response of bias-zero tracers CM, Avila, et al. 2026 A&A letters 707 15

• Oct-2023 to Sep-2024: Alejandro Anguren
  Measuring the Initial Conditions of the Universe with Galaxy Clustering Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Oct-2021 to Sep-2022: Iago Sánchez Crotón
  Forecast for measuring Redshift Space Distortions with DES.
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Oct-2020 to Sep-2021: Adrián Gutiérrez Adame
  Simulations with Primordial Non-Gaussianities.
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Oct-2019 to Sep-2020: Supervision of the MSc thesis + JAE-intro fellowship of Bernhard Vos Ginés
  Cosmology with the Square Kilometer Array .
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid + CSIC

Intenrship Supervision

• Feb-May 2026. MSc internship of Santiago Herraiz. UCM Astrophysics MSc. “”
• Summer 2018: Supervision of SEPNet summer Placement: George Thomas. University of Portsmouth.
• Summer 2017: Supervision of SEPNet summer Placement: Tom Divers. University of Portsmouth.