Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Ivan Latella is Lecturer in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2016 and his PhD thesis received the Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award. He was postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique (France) in 2016-2017 and during 2022. He also was postdoctoral fellow at Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) in 2017-2019. In 2019 he joined the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona as postdoc, and in 2020 he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship to be carried out in the same department. Since 2014 he has been member of the Organizing Committee of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics.

Education

PhD in Physics. University of Barcelona, Spain (2016)

Master’s degree in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology. University of Barcelona, Spain (2010)

Bachelor’s degree in Physics. University of Barcelona, Spain (2009)

Experience

Lecturer, 01/12/2022 - Present. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain

Postdoctoral Researcher, 01/04/2022 - 30/11/2022. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France (advisor: Philippe Ben-Abdallah)

Marie-Curie Researcher (Individual Fellowship) 01/04/2020 - 31/03/2022. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain (advisor: J. Miguel Rubi)

Postdoctoral Researcher, 23/10/2019 - 31/03/2020. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain (advisor: J. Miguel Rubi)

Postdoctoral Researcher, 25/10/2017 - 22/10/2019. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Canada (advisors: Philippe Ben-Abdallah and Luc G. Fréchette)

Postdoctoral Researcher, 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2017. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France (advisor: Philippe Ben-Abdallah)

FPI Predoctoral Researcher, 01/12/2012 - 30/06/2016. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain (advisor: Agustí Pérez-Madrid)

Teaching Assistant, 01/04/2011 - 14/09/2012. Department of Astronomy and Meteorology, University of Barcelona, Spain

Short Stays

Visiting PhD student, 08/09/2014 - 12/12/2014. Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau, France (advisor: Philippe Ben-Abdallah)

Visiting PhD student, 09/02/2014 - 23/02/2014. University of Florence, Italy (advisor: Stefano Ruffo)

Awards and fellowships

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission (2020)

Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award, University of Barcelona (2017)

FPI Predoctoral Fellowship, Spanish Government (2012)

Selected publications

Graphene-based autonomous pyroelectric system for near-field energy conversion

I. Latella and P. Ben-Abdallah, Sci. Rep. 11, 19489 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98656-8; https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05564

Monte Carlo simulations in the unconstrained ensemble

I. Latella, A. Campa, L. Casetti, P. Di Cintio, J. M. Rubi and S. Ruffo, Phys. Rev. E 103, L061303 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.L061303; https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06103

Radiative heat shuttling

I. Latella, R. Messina, J. M. Rubi and P. Ben-Abdallah, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 023903 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.023903; https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02467

Radiative heat transfer and non-equilibrium Casimir-Lifshitz force in many-body Systems with planar geometry

I. Latella, P. Ben-Abdallah, S.-A. Biehs, M. Antezza and R. Messina, Phys. Rev. B 95, 205404 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205404; https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06966

Giant thermal magnetoresistance in plasmonic structures

I. Latella and P. Ben-Abdallah, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173902 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.173902; https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00479

Thermodynamics of nonadditive systems

I. Latella, A. Pérez-Madrid, A. Campa, L. Casetti, and S. Ruffo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 230601 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.230601; https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03767

Local thermodynamics and the generalized Gibbs-Duhem equation in systems with long-range interactions

I. Latella and A. Pérez-Madrid, Phys. Rev. E 88, 042135 (2013); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.042135; https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4903

Teaching

Statistical Physics (theory). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2019-2020)

Multivariate Calculus (problems). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2015-2016)

Mathematical Methods for Physics I (problems). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2015-2016)

Fundamentals of Mechanics, Waves, Fluids and Thermodynamics (problems). Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering of the University of Barcelona (course 2015-2016)

Fundamentals of Laboratory (practices). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2011-2012)

Informatics (practices). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2011-2012)

Theoretical Mechanics (problems). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2011-2012)

Differential Equations and Vector Calculus (problems). Bachelor’s degree in Physics of the University of Barcelona (course 2010-2011)

Differential Equations and Vector Calculus (problems). Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Eng. and Telecommunications of the University of Barcelona (course 2010-2011)