About Adolfo
Positions
Full professor
19- Donostia International Physics Center
Ikerbasque research full professor
19- University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Physics
adjunct professor
18-20 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical division, T-4
faculty guest scientist
18-19 University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Physics
tenured associate professor
14-18 University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Physics
tenure-track associate professor
11-14 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical division, T-4 & Center for Non-Linear Studies
J. Robert Oppenheimer fellow, working with Wojciech H. Zurek
11-11 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Theoretische Physik
research associate
09-11 Universität Ulm, Institut für Theoretische Physik
research associate, working with Martin B. Plenio
08-09 Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory & Institute for Mathematical Sciences
research associate, working with Martin B. Plenio
07-08 Basque Country University, QUINST, Department of Physical Chemistry
research associate
06 - MR Erdos Number = 4
Education
04-08 PhD, University of Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain)
Thesis (cum laude): Control of ultracold gases in tight waveguides (pdf),
Advisor: J. Gonzalo Muga
99-04 Bachelor’s degree, University of Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain)
Chemistry -Physical chemistry (cum laude) - Uni honors
Editorial work
Member of the Editorial Board of Entropy (MDPI)
Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (NPG)
Editorial Advisory Board Member for AVS Quantum Science (AQS)
Associate Editor of Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology (De Gruyter)
Review Editor for Frontiers Mathematical Physics
Guest Editor in New Journal of Physics
Focus on Strongly Interacting Quantum Gases in One Dimension
Focus on Shortcuts to Adiabaticity
Lecture Notes In Physics Editor (Springer)
Time in Quantum mechanics- Book LNP789
Referee for grant proposals
US National Science Foundation
US Department of Energy
Israel Science Foundation
Referee for journals
Science (AAAS)
Nature (NPG)
Nature Physics (NPG)
Nature Communications (NPG)
npj Quantum Information (NPG)
Scientific Reports (NPG)
Physical Review Letters (APS)
Physical Review A (APS)
Physical Review B (APS)
Physical Review D (APS)
Physical Review E (APS)
Physical Review X (APS)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Proceedings of the Royal Society A (RS)
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (IOP)
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (IOP)
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (IOP)
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (IOP)
Europhysics Letters (IOP)
New Journal of Physics (IOP)
Physica Scripta (IOP)
The European Physical Journal D (EPS)
Optics Express (OSA)
Acta Physica Polonica A (PAS)
Annals of Physics (Elsevier)
Physica B: Condensed Matter (Elsevier)
Foundations of Physics (Springer)
Quantum Information Processing (Springer)
Annalen der Physik (Wiley-VCH)
Awards and fellowships
Leon Heller prize in Theoretical Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2014)
Postdoc Distinguished Performance Award (PDPA), Los Alamos National Laboratory (2014)
Distinguished J. Robert Oppenheimer fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2011)
Extraordinary Doctorate award, Universidad del País Vasco (2010)
Basque Government fellowship (2004-2008)
European Science Foundation, MISGAM grant (2007)
European Science Foundation, QUDEDIS grant (2007)
Honors by Universidad del País Vasco (Batchelor degree, 1999-2004)
TASSEP Exchange fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003-2004)
Honors by University of Texas at Austin (2003)
TASSEP Exchange fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2002-2003)
First place in the Basque Country Olympiad of Chemistry (Bilbao, Spain, 1999)
Bronze Medal in National Olympiad of Chemistry (Almeria, Spain, 1999)
Languages
Spanish, English, learning French, German, Russian-> 0+