I am a condensed matter physicist, and I work on predicting material properties using theoretical and computational methods. I enjoy studying and calculating diverse aspects and effects that quantum mechanics offers in the context of solids, like Peierl’s phases, spin-fluctuations, or the role of position in periodic systems. My work often involves developing specialized in-house computational tools, and I have also contributed to the free-software codes Wannier90 and WannierBerri.
I got my PhD in 2013, supervised by Aitor Bergara and Asier Eiguren (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU). I then did two ~four-year postdocs; the first one with Samir Lounis and Stefan Blügel (Helmholtz Postdoctoral Fellow at Forschungszentrum Jülich), and the second one with Ivo Souza (MPC and Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc fellow at Materials Physics Center). Since June 2021, I am an Ikerbasque Research Associate working at the Materials Physics Center.
I am currently funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the ERC Starting Grant PhotoNow (number 946629).
