I started my research career at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where I did my Ph.D. between 2017-2021. During this period, I studied the interplay between electronic, magnetic, and structural degrees of freedom in crystalline transition metal compounds under the supervision of Prof. Víctor Pardo and Prof. Francisco Rivadulla. I developed expertise in ab initio techniques and collaborating in experiments.
I have been a visiting researcher in the group of David Singh at the University of Missouri (USA) in 2019, in the group of Ion Errea at the Materials Physics Center of San Sebastián-Donostia (Spain) in 2021, and in the group of Johannes Lischner at the Imperial College London (UK) in 2023. During these visits, I gained expertise in the theoretical description of transport properties, nuclear dynamics, and machine learning techniques. I established new experimental collaborations.
During my postdoctoral stage, I was awarded an Academy of Finland postdoctoral fellowship at Aalto University (Finland). My research activity was carried out in the theory group led by Prof. Jose Lado and the experimental group led by Prof. Peter Liljeroth, where I have obtained new expertise in the use of low-energy models, materials synthesis with Molecular Beam Epitaxy, and Scanning Probe Microscopy. In my project entitled MultiVan, I investigated how to design new multiferroics using layered van der Waals materials.
Currently, I am an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Aalto University (Finland). Here I am the PI of the Fun-Van project, where I investigate how to design functional quantum materials based on layered van der Waals multiferroic materials.