Bio
Education
Physics degree by the Universitat de Barcelona, 1992
Pedagogical training course, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1996
Ph. D. in Physics by the Universitat de Barcelona, 1997
Master degree in Environmental Control and Quality, Catalan Institute of Technology, 2002
Positions
2021-present, Coordinator of the Physics Doctorate Program, University of Barcelona.
2018-present, Deputy Director of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences
2018 - present, Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission of the Institute of Cosmos Science.
2024, Full Professor of Physics, University of Barcelona
2007, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Barcelona
2003-2007, Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of Barcelona
2001-2003, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Barcelona
1998-2000, Research Associate, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
Recent research projects
2021-2024, PID2020-118758GB-I00, "Understanding matter governed by the strong force: quarks, hadrons, nuclei and neutron stars (STRONGMAT)", Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain. (PIs: Assumpta Parreño, Javier Menéndez)
2020-2023, CEX2019-000918-M, “Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB)”, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain (PI: Jordi Miralda Escudé)
2020-2021, RED2018‐102504‐T, “Red Española de Lattice Gauge Theory”, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Spain. (PI: Vicente Azcoiti, local (Barcelona node) co-IP: Assumpta Parreño)
2017-2020, FIS2017-87534-P "Challenges in many-body physics: hadrons, nuclei and atoms", MIINN, Spain. (PI: Àngels Ramos)
2017-2020, 2017SGR533, "Theoretical nuclear physics and many-body physics of interacting particles-2, AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya. (PI: Àngels Ramos)
2015-2019, María de Maeztu award , Institute of Cosmos Sciences, ICC-UB, MDM-2014-0369, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Spain. (PI: Josep Maria Paredes, co-IP/guarantor: Assumpta Parreño)
Mentoring
"New developments in the weak decay of hypernuclei", C. Chumillas, University of Barcelona, 2010, co-advised with Prof. A. Ramos.
"Non-mesonic weak decay of hypernuclei in effective field theory", A. Pérez-Obiol, University of Barcelona, 2014, co-advised with Dr. B. Juliá-Díaz.
"Decay of Doubly Strange Hypernuclei", J. Maneu, University of Barcelona, 2019.
"Approaching nuclear interactions with lattice QCD", M. Illa, University of Barcelona, September 2021
Other
2024, Member of the Scientific Board of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento (Italy)
2020-2022, Serving on the National Advisory Committee for the INT, Seattle, WA, USA
June 18-24, 2017, Co-organizer of the 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2017), Granada, Spain
2017 - present, Serving on the Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System, ACSUG, Spain
2016 - present, Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Cosmos Science.
2015 - present, Serving on the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) for research proposals to the "Plan Estatal Proyectos I+D", Spain
2014-2016: Co-organizer of the ICC winter meetings at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain
Referee for Nuclear Physics A, Physics Letters B, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Fizika B and European Physical Journal A