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I have got my PhD in Physics in 1992 at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Cambridge as a Marie Curie Fellowship holder during 1993-1994, where I joined the Group of Polymer and Colloids of the Cavendish Laboratory, I was Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2010 at UNED and I have been on sabbatical leave during the year 2009  when I have been Senior Fellow at the FRIAS Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. I am Full Professor since 2010 of Applied Physics at the Department of Fundamental Physics of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, based in Madrid. I am the director of a Research Group on "Fluids and Soft Matter" at UNED.

My research interests are in Soft Matter, complex fluids and dynamic descriptions of complex molecular structures.  I am also an expert in simulation particle methods applied to the simulation of hydrodynamics of simple and complex fluids. I have contributed substantially to the development of the Dissipative Particle Dynamics method which is one very popular method for the simulation of coarse-grained models for complex fluids. I am most interested in the theoretical foundations  and thermodynamic consistency of new simulation methods based on coarse-graining. Very recently I have formulated from first principles a stochastic and dissipative version of Euler's equation for the motion of a free body.

I am author of 97 papers in JCR (ISI) peer-reviewed journals, with more than 7000 citations and with an h-index of 38.  I have been the principal researcher of five projects of MICINN, I have supervised 11  PhD thesis.