Team

I have been lucky enough to collaborate with excellent PhD students and postdocs, listed below. If you are interested in working on nuclear theory in Barcelona, do not hesitate to contact me (by email at arnau.rios_at_icc.ub.edu).

Current

PhD students

• Roque Márquez Rodríguez (2025-present PhD student). Neutron star modes and gravitational waves.

• Joan Ainaud Fondevila (2025-present PhD student). Quantum Machine Learning.

• Kerman Gallego Lizarribar (2024-present PhD student). Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics.

• Giuseppe Rivieccio (2023-present, co-supervised with U València). Dense matter and gravitational waves.

• Javier Rozalén Sarmiento (2021-present PhD student). Neural Quantum States.

Past

Early Career Researchers

• Alejandro Romero Ros (2024-2025), Time-dependent Neural Quantum States

• Antonio Márquez-Romero (2022-2023, Margarita Salas Fellow at UB). Now Senior Researcher @ Fujitsu Quantum.

•  Kai Wen (2015-2018, STFC Consolidated Grant postdoctoral researcher), Time-Dependent Density Matrix theory, now postdoctoral researcher.

• Mehdi Drissi (2018-2021, STFC Consolidated Grant postdoctoral researcher), Superfluid Green's functions at finite temperature, now postdoctoral researcher @ TRIUMF

PhD students

• James Keeble (2018-2022 PhD student). PhD thesis: Neural Network Solutions to the Fermionic Schrödinger Equation

• Matthew Barton (2015-2018). PhD thesis: Symmetry unrestricted self-consistent time dependent density matrix theory with a Skyrme force

• Roshan Sellahewa (2012-2015), now quantitative consultancy. PhD thesis: Isovector and pairing properties of the Gogny force in the context of neutron stars

• Phillip Goddard (2011-2014), now data scientist. PhD thesis: A Microscopic Study of Nuclear Fission using the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock method

• Arianna Carbone (2010-2014), now data scientist. PhD thesis: Self-consistent Green's functions with three-body forces