Particle Physics
at UPV/EHU

I got my PhD at Complutense University of Madrid in 2013, after graduating in Physics (Licenciatura) at the University of the Basque Country in 2008 and obtaining a Master in Theoretical Physics at Autonomous University of Madrid (2008-2010). This was followed by several postdoctoral appointments, first at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF) in Amsterdam (2013-2015), then at the University of Barcelona with a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (2015-2017), and afterwards at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics INFN in Pavia (2017-2019) with a Marie Curie fellowship. After that I got an assistant professor position (2019) and then a Beatriz Galindo distinguished researcher position (2020) at the University of Alcalá, before finally coming back home to Bilbao in the fall of 2021.

My research interests include Theoretical Physics, Collider Phenomenology, QCD, Effective Field Theories, Hadron Structure.

I studied physics at the University of The Basque Country (2011-2015). I then took a Master's in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, and Cosmology in the University of Barcelona (2015-2016), where I did my PhD (2016-2020, you can read my dissertation in arXiv!).
Afterwards, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at the Ohio State University (2020-2023), and since 2023 I am professor at the University of the Basque Country.

I am broadly interested in fundamental physics, in particular neutrinos and dark matter. These particles barely interact and their properties cannot be described by our current theories, but they are essential to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. To understand their properties, I combine information from laboratory experiments and astrophysical and cosmological observations. I am also very interested in using these particles as tools to explore other aspects of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

I am an IKERBASQUE Research Professor associated with the Department of Physics at UPV/EHU. I obtained my PhD in 1999 from New Mexico State University on hyperon polarization in deep-inelastic scattering measured at HERMES. I subsequently held a research fellowship position at DESY, a joint Alexander-von-Humboldt/JSPS research fellowship position at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and an FWO research fellowship in Belgium. In 2008 I joined DESY as scientific staff leading up to the post in Bilbao in 2011.

My research interests focus on the experimental and phenomenological investigation of Quantum Chromodynamics. I have contributed substantially to the study of the (spin) structure of nucleons, especially from the experimental side where I as part of various collaboration published several groundbreaking results (1 "topcite=1000+", 8 "topcite=500+"). I am heavily involved in the study of transverse-momentum distributions (TMDs), for which I led the analysis and publication effort of the HERMES collaboration. Since coming to Bilbao, I have been Spokesperson of the HERMES collaboration. I am also member of the AnDY, Belle, and H1 collaborations. I work with several theorists on the phenomenology of TMDs. I also work on the physics case of the future electron-ion collider for which, among others, I contributed to the White Paper and Yellow Report.
I participate in several Scientific/Advorisory Committees of conferences, was a long-standing member of CERN's PS and SPS Programme Committee, co-convenor of CERN's Physics Beyond Collider (PBC) QCD working group, contributing to the Physics Briefing Book of the 2020 European Strategy for Particle Physics update, and since 2024 experiment coordinator of the PBC. I have been evaluator in CERN's "Beamline for Schools" selection committee, the US DOE SoLID review, the EU COST and MCS IF programs, as well as for the Flemish FWO, the Swiss SWF, and the Polish NSC funding agencies.