Talks & Conferences

Talks at workshops and conferences

2026

Heavy mesons at finite temperature 📄

Invited talk   ✨  MITP Topical Workshop: Exotic Quarkonia in Heavy-ion Collisions. Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mainz, Germany. February 2-6, 2026 🔗

Machine Learning approaches to Amplitude Analysis 📄

Invited talk   ✨   Exploring the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram: from hadrons and nuclei to matter under extreme conditions (HADNUCMAT). Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. January 26-28, 2026 🔗

Analytic structure and Regge phenomenology of meson photoproduction 📄

Invited talk   ✨  PCTS/IAS Workshop: From Analyticity to Phenomenology. PCTS and IAS, Princeton, NJ (USA) 🔗

2025

A double-Regge exchange model for high-energy η⁽′⁾π photoproduction 📄

Talk   •   6th Workshop on Future Directions in Spectroscopy Analysis (FDSA2025). Barcelona, Spain. December 9-11, 2025 🔗

From cross sections to scattering amplitudes using ML with built-in physics 📄

Invited talk   ✨   Digital Twins for Nuclear and Particle Physics 2025 (NPTwins 2025). Università di Messina, Messina, Italy. October 6-8, 2025 🔗

Understanding photoproduction of ηπ and η'π in the double Regge region 📄

Invited talk   ✨   Joint International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy (IWHSS 2025) and the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (QCD-N'25). San Sebastian, Spain. September 1-5, 2025 🔗

Regge approach to light meson photoproduction 📄

Talk   •   Multi-Particle Reactions from the Standard Model: spectroscopy, precision tests and beyond (Multi-Particle 25).  Berkeley, CA, USA. July 28 – August 1, 2025 🔗

Generative AI for Amplitude Analysis 📄

Invited talk   ✨   2025 JLUO Annual Meeting. Newport News, VA, USA. June 24-26, 2025 🔗

Amplitude extraction with generative AI 📄

Talk   •   AI for Hadron Spectroscopy at JLab. Newport News, VA, USA. June 4-5, 2025 🔗

2024

Physics constrained GAN for amplitude extraction 📄

Invited talk   ✨   Digital Twins for Nuclear and Particle Physics 2024 (NPTwins 2024). Genova, Italy. December 16-18, 2024 🔗

Understanding pion exchange in meson photoproduction from a Regge theory perspective 📄

Talk   •   QNP2024 – The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics. Barcelona, Spain. July 8-12, 2024 🔗

Forward pion photoproduction with Regge phenomenology 📄

Invited talk   ✨   International Workshop on Partial Wave Analyses and Advanced Tools for Hadron Spectroscopy (PWA13/ATHOS8). Williamsburg, VA, USA. May 28-June 1, 2024 🔗

Role of pion exchange in photoproduction: from current conservation to reggeization 📄

Invited talk   ✨   5th Workshop on Future Directions in Spectroscopy Analysis (FDSA2024). Genova, Italy. January 22-24, 2024 🔗

Amplitude extraction with GANs 📄

Invited talk   ✨   5th Workshop on Future Directions in Spectroscopy Analysis (FDSA2024). Genova, Italy. January 22-24, 2024 🔗

Role of current conservation, reggeization and absorption in pion photoproduction 📄

Talk   •   Excited QCD 2024. Benasque, Spain. January 14-20, 2024 🔗

2023

2023 GHP Dissertation Award: Heavy-flavor mesons in a hot medium 📄

Invited talk   ✨   10th biennial workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP2023). Minneapolis, MI, USA. April 12-14, 2023 🔗

Heavy-flavor exotica: Properties of heavy mesons at finite temperature from hadronic EFTs 📄

Invited talk   ✨   EMMI Workshop: 4th Workshop on Anti-Matter, Hyper-Matter and Exotica Production at the LHC. University of Bologna, Italy. February 13-17, 2023 🔗

2022

Exotic heavy mesons in a hot environment

Invited talk   ✨  STRONG2020 Hadron Spectroscopy (HaSp) General Workshop. Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. September 13-16, 2022

Heavy-flavor mesons in a hot mesonic bath

Invited talk   ✨   9th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP2022). Online. September 5-9, 2022     

Thermal modification of open heavy-flavor mesons from an effective hadronic theory

Talk   •   A Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum 2021. Online. August 2-6, 2021

Temperature dependence of the properties of open heavy-flavor mesons

Talk   •   19th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2021). Online. May 17-22, 2021

Modification of heavy mesons in a hot medium within effective hadronic theories

Talk   •   6th International Workshop on Meson Physics (Meson2021). Online. May 17-20, 2021

Properties of heavy mesons within unitarized effective theories at finite temperature

Invited talk   ✨   Reimei Workshop “Hadrons in dense matter at J-PARC”. Online. February 21-23, 2022

2021

Exotic heavy mesons in a hot environment

Invited talk   ✨   2nd HaSp-STRONG2020 Workshop. Online. September 2-4, 2021

2020

The charm of hot hadronic matter

Talk   •   ICCUB Winter Meeting 2020. Barcelona, Spain. February 4, 2020

2019

Properties of heavy mesons at finite temperature

Talk   •   XXIV European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB24). University of Surrey, Guildford, England. September 2-6, 2019

2018

A meson-baryon molecular interpretation for some Ωc excited states

Talk   •   XXII International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB22). Caen, France. July 9-13, 2018

Exotic Ωc⁰ baryons from meson–baryon scattering

Talk   •   XIII International Conf on Beauty, Charm and Hyperon Hadrons (BEACH2018). Peniche, Portugal. June 17-23, 2018

A meson-baryon molecular interpretation for some Ωc⁰  excited states

Talk   •   33rd Hampton University Graduate Studies Program (HUGS2018). Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA, USA. May 29 - June 15, 2018

Seminars

Advances in high-energy meson photoproduction within Regge theory

Center for Theoretical Physics (CPhT) Seminar. École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. November 27, 2025

Recent developments in meson photoproduction at high energies within Regge theory

“Cake Seminar” in the Theory Center at Jefferson Lab. Newport News, VA, USA. September 24, 2025 (https://www.jlab.org/theory/seminars/2025cakeseminars) 

Exploring hadron spectroscopy through theory, phenomenology, and machine learning

Seminar on Nuclear Theory at the Department of Physics. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. February 12, 2025

Towards the hybrid meson photoproduction at JLab: unravelling pion exchange from a Regge theory perspective

Nuclear Theory Seminar at the Department of Physics. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. April 18, 2024

Heavy mesons in a hot medium

“Cake Seminar” in the Theory Center at Jefferson Lab. Newport News, VA, USA. April 26, 2023

Properties of heavy mesons in a hot medium within a thermal effective theory

Theory and Phenomenology group at INFN Genova. University of Genova, Italy. April 11, 2022

Thermal modification of open-charm mesons from an effective hadronic theory 🎥

Hadronic, Nuclear and Atomic Physics of the University of Barcelona. Online. November 5, 2020

Thermal modification of open-charm mesons from an effective hadronic theory

Theory Seminar at Jefferson Lab. Online.  Sep 14, 2020

Thermal modification of heavy mesons below Tc from an effective hadronic theory

High Energy Physics department. University of Bielefeld, Germany. October 17, 2019

Constraints on the hadron-quark phase transition and the properties of twin stars with GW170817

Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB). Barcelona, Spain. June 20, 2019

Lectures

2025 

Introduction to Scattering Theory

Summer School   •   Multi-Particle Reactions from the Standard Model: spectroscopy, precision tests and beyond (Multi-Particle 25).  Berkeley, CA, USA. July 14-25, 2025 🔗

2024

Tutorials on Amplitude Analyses

Summer School   •   Modern Techniques in Hadron Spectroscopy. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. July 15-26, 2024 🔗

2022

Tutorials on Strangeness in hadron collisions, spectroscopy and neutron stars

Summer School   •   GGI School: Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics 2022. Virtual. February 21 - March 4, 2022 🔗

2018-2022 

Teaching for undergrad at the University of Barcelona

• Multivariate Calculus, Bachelor in Physics

• Physics I: Laboratory, Bachelor in Chemistry

• Basic laboratory for engineering: Mechanics, Bachelor in Chemical Engineering