About Me

I am an easy-going person who loves to laugh and make jokes. And I am also a physicist (these are not mutually exclusive!). I am from Donostia and studied Physics in Bilbao (UPV/EHU) and Madrid (UAM). I did a PhD in theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) under supervision of Prof. M. Carmen Muñoz (2011-2015). We studied many interesting problems related to low dimensional effects of the then recently discovered topological insulators. You can find a summary of our findings in this site under the Topological Insulators section.

I later moved to Barcelona to work at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) under supervision of Riccardo Rurali & Jorge Íñiguez (2016-2017). We studied the thermal properties of different insulating perovskites and other oxides from first principles. Some of the most relevant findings are displayed in the Thermal properties section.

By the end of 2017, I moved to California. I worked in Nicholas Kioussis' group at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) looking for new topological nodal line and Weyl materials.

In December 2018 I went to Luxembourg to work with Jorge Íñiguez at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) as a postdoc. We worked in second-principles calculations on ferroic materials, particularly focused on Antiferroelectrics and ultra-reactive oxides. 

Since January 2022 I am a permanent Research & Technology Associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

  Find my CV attached here.