Andrés is a postdoctoral researcher mostly interested in quantum technologies. His work has dealt with entanglement generation, both in superconducting circuits and quantum dots. He is currently studying the relations between quantum computing and machine learning. Other interests include quantum information, communication and foundations.

Miguel's research focuses on nuclear structure problems, based on the self-consistent mean field approach and its extensions, and how different types of nuclear interactions affect these structures, primarily using the density-dependent Gogny interaction. His work includes the calculation of matrix elements, proton-neutron pairing, and the microscopic study of collective phenomena in odd-mass isotopes.

Samuel obtained his PhD in Nuclear Astrophysics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) in 2017. He has worked as postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University (USA) and ECT* (Italy). Since January 2023, he is a Ramón y Cajal fellow in the NT@UAM group.

His research focuses on nuclear structure calculations of neutron rich nuclei and their impact on r-process nucleosynthesis simulations. He also works on applying machine learning techniques to the nuclear many-body problem.

Alfredo Poves is an emeritus professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He has been vice-rector of the UAM, chairman of the Department of Theoretical Physics and of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, chairman of the Spanish Agency for the Evaluation of the Researchers, chairman of the Board of Directors of the ECT* (Trento) and scientific associate at CERN. He is a member of the Academia Europaea.

Alfredo is a world’s expert on nuclear structure calculations using state-of-the-art interacting shell model techniques and the founder members of the highly successful Strasbourg-Madrid collaboration.

Along my scientific career I have mostly worked in different aspects of theoretical nuclear structure with phenomenological effective interactions. In the last few years, quantum information aspects of the solution of the many-body problem have attracted my interest. This is a purely academic work, and therefore the impact on society is merely to extend the frontiers of knowledge.

I have developed computer codes to do mean field calculations with the finite range Gogny force. Several physics cases have been addressed: I) Existence of octupole deformation and its consequences in observables II) Quadrupole-Octupole coupling III) High spin physics in the cranking HFB approximation III) Properties of super-deformed states and fission isomers IV) Characterization of spontaneous fission observables V) Cluster emission described from the very asymmetric fission perspective VI) Quadrupole-Hexadecapole coupling VII) High-K isomers and their decay out.

Restoration of the broken symmetries by the nuclear mean field is important for a more detailed description of nuclear structure properties like transition strengths and the associated selection rules. I pioneered the use of symmetry restoration with effective forces

by considering parity symmetry restoration in my thesis work, later I have implemented particle number and angular momentum restoration. A couple of difficulties were spotted in the implementation of symmetry restoration, they are associated to the violation of the Pauli exclusion principle and the need for a consistent prescription for the density dependent part of effective interactions. The first problem is well under control, but the second is still the subject of a heated debate. For the latter, I have made important contributions limiting the possible forms of this term. The next step in the hierarchy of many body methods is the consideration of configuration mixing of collective configurations, implemented in the form of the generator coordinate method. I also pioneered the use of the GCM with the Gogny force and applied this technique to a plethora of physics cases.

Previous formulas for the evaluation of overlaps between HFB states were not providing the sign of the overlap. This is an important impediment as the norm is subsequently integrated and therefore relative signs are important. Using techniques of fermion coherent states, I developed a new expression for the overlaps in terms of Pfaffians that gives the sign without ambiguities. The method can be easily extended to finite temperature. Inspired by the Pfaffian I developed another formula to compute arbitrary overlaps of multi-quasiparticle excitations of HFB states that avoid the “combinatorial explosion” problem associated to the factorial large number of terms to be considered in the traditional approaches.

I generalized Wick’s theorem for overlaps to the common case where each of the HFB wave functions are expanded in different bases of the Hilbert space. The impact of taking into account this issue is relevant in many different situations, including symmetry restoration.

I have also considered odd mass nuclei and multi-quasiparticle excitations, which require of “blocking” at the HFB level and full consideration of time-odd fields. This implementation requires the introduction of an orthogonality constraint to be able to reach many excited configurations. This framework allows for a consistent calculation of nuclear properties, as required by dark matter search experiments and others aiming at physics beyond the standard model.

I have demonstrated how a commonly used phenomenological approach to describe odd mass nuclei (the equal filling approximation) can be justified in terms of a quantum statistical ensemble with a prescribed set of probabilities.

I have participated in the development of the BCPM, BCPMeff, SEI and D1M* functionals. The BCPM functional has recently being used to compute fission properties of over three thousand super-heavy neutron rich nuclei required for astrophysics simulations of nucleosynthesis in the two neutron star merger environment.

According to Scopus (Google Scholar) as of April 18th 2024 I have published 223 (250) papers in scientific journals which have received 7500 (10200) citations with an average of almost 600 (700) citations per year during the last 5 years. For those publications, the corresponding H index is 53 (61). I have published three review papers, one in Reports in Progress in Physics in 2016 and two in Journal of Physics G. One of my publications was featured in “Physics” section of the APS and another one is Editor’s choice of PRC.

I have supervised six Ph.D. thesis and six M.Sc. thesis. At present, I am supervising two Ph.D. students.

I have been awarded six “Sexenios de Investigacion” by the Spanish agency ANECA.

I have been member of the editorial board of Physical Review C in the period 2019-2021.

I have been awarded the Outstanding Referee of the APS mention in 2019.

I regularly act as a referee of the following journals: Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics A, Physics Letters B, Journal of Physics G, European Physics Journal A, Physica Scripta, International Journal of Modern Physics E, Acta Physica Polonica, etc.