Honors and Awards

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award 2024, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Jan 2023 to Dec 2025

Recipient of the "Dàtil d'Or 2023'', by the "Asociación de Informadores de la ciudad de Elche'' (Association of Informants of the city of Elche)

Recipient of the medal of the "Bi-milenario de la ciudad de Elche'' (Bi-millelnial of the city of Elche) 2022 

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award 2021, College of Science, Louisiana State University

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award 2021, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Frontiers of Science Lecture Series, Invited speaker, Florida Atlantic University, January 2021 

Invited speaker, American Physical Society April Meeting  2025, 2020, 2017, and 2012

Raising Faculty Research Award 2018,  Louisiana State University Alumni Association

Frontiers of Science invited speaker, The Pennsylvania State University 

Forty under 40 awardee 2018 (Selected by the magazine Business Reports as one of the  "brightest young leaders" under 40 years of age of the capital region of Louisiana)

First award in the Gravity Research Foundation international essay competition 2017 (For an essay entitled "Gravity and Handedness of Photons", written in collaboration with J. Navarro-Salas and A. del Rio)

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award 2017, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Young Scientist Award  2016, International Union of  Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)-International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, "For his outstanding contributions to the physics of the early universe and possible observational consequences of quantum gravity" 

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2016

Marie Curie European Postdoctoral Fellow 2012

Einstein-Galilei Award 2012,  Institute for Theoretical  and Advance Mathematics Einstein-Galilei, Italy

First Award in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2011 (For an essay entitled "Stimulated creation of quanta during inflation and the observable universe ", written in collaboration with L. Parker)

Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics Award 2011, Royal Spanish Physics Society, "For the innovative and cutting-edge character of his research in the field of gravitation and cosmology"

Extraordinary Ph.D Prize 2010, University of Valencia

Fourth Award in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2009 (For an essay entitled "Inflation, quantum fields, and CMB anisotropies", written in collaboration with J. Navarro-Salas, G. Olmo, and L. Parker)

FPU Fellowship 2005, Offered by the Spanish Ministry of Science to  fund a 4-years PhD in theoretical physics

Summer Student Fellowship at CERN 2004

Introduction to Research Fellowship, CSIC 2003

Offered by CSIC (Spanish national research council) to provide a funded  introduction to research for undergraduate students. Subject: CP violation in B mesons systems. Duration: 3 months

Undergraduate research fellowship, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Valencia 2003