Glòria Montaña

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences. After obtaining my PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2022, I spent some time in Virginia, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Theory Group at Jefferson Lab. In 2025, I returned to ICCUB as a recipient of the Beatriu de Pinós fellowship.

My research focuses on the spectroscopy of exotic hadrons that lie beyond the conventional quark model. I am particularly interested in developing and applying theoretical and computational tools that help connect fundamental theory with data from ongoing and future experiments. 

Collaborations and affiliations

I am a member of the Hadronic, Nuclear and Atomic physics group (HadNucAt) at the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona.

I am a member of the Joint Physics Analysis Center (JPAC), which provides theoretical support for hadron spectroscopy analyses at Jefferson Lab and other facilities, and the Exotic Hadrons (ExoHad) Topical Collaboration, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, I contribute to the A(i)DAPT collaborative effort, which explores the use of artificial intelligence for advanced data analysis in nuclear and particle physics.