Personal information

Center

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Institute

Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid

Address

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049 Madrid (Spain)

Position

Tenured scientist (Condensed matter, theory)

Office

216

Phone

(+34) 91 334 9079

e-mail

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IDs

Google Scholar, ORCID 0000-0002-7920-5273, ResearcherID A-4795-2010

Academic career

Scientific conferences

1. July 3-6 2023, "Control of Ultrafast (Attosecond and Strong Field) Processes Using Structured Light" (CUPUSL23), (Dresden, Germany)

   [Poster]: Quantica.jl: simulating tight-binding systems in the Julia language

2. June 22-23 2023, "Stories in the flatland (with a twist in the end)", Symposium in honor of Prof. Francisco Guinea, (Madrid, Spain)

   [Invited]: Helical modes and Majoranas in encapsulated graphene bilayers

3. July 18-21 2022, Quantum Designer Physics 2022, (San Sebastián, Spain)

   [Poster]: Majorana-like Coulomb spectroscopy in the absence of zero bias peaks

4. March 14-18 2022, APS March Meeting 2022, (Chicago - online)

   [Oral]: Majorana bound states in encapsulated bilayer graphene

5. October 4-5 2021, IOP-EPS mini-colloquium: Real-space simulations of topological matter and disordered materials, (Paris - online)

   [Invited]: Engineering Majoranas in 2D crystals: three graphene-based recipes

6. March 15-19 2021, APS March Meeting 2021 (online)

   [Oral]: Flat bands in magic-angle vibrating plates

7. April 4-5 2019, SP2 Workshop 2019 (Granada, Spain)

8. January 14-15 2019, KITE quantum transport software workshop (Porto, Portugal)

9. April 20th 2018, Symposium in honor of Prof. Schön's 70th birthday (Karlsruhe, Germany)

   [Invited]: Moiré patterns in 2D crystals

10. October (23-25) 2017, 2D Materials and Interfaces for Spintronics (Barcelona, Spain)

    [Invited]: Opportunities for Majoranas in 2D

11. September (4-8) 2017, XXIV International summer school "Nicolás Cabrera": Quantum transport in topological materials (Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain)

    [Invited]: Overview of MathQ, a Mathematica simulator for quantum systems

12. July (18-19) 2017, GEFES Simposium "Quantum Materials And Technologies" (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

    [Oral]: Zero-energy pinning from interactions in Majorana nanowires

13. May (14-20) 2017, Majorana States In Condensed Matter: Towards Topological Quantum Computation (Mallorca, Spain)

    [Poster]: Majorana Zero Modes in Graphene

14. May (8-9) 2017, Workshop "New Trends in Material Science" (Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain)

    [Invited]: Zero-energy pinning of Majorana in nanowires

15. February (22-26) 2016, Spinograph Workshop 2016 - New trends in 2D materials (IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain)

    [Oral]: Controlling Commensuration in Graphene/hBN multilayers

16. February (16-19) 2016, NanoPT-2016 International Conference (Braga, Portugal)

    [Invited]: Majorana Zero Modes in Graphene

17. January (13-15) 2016, IX GEFES Meeting 2016 (Cuenca, Spain)

    [Poster]: Majorana Zero Modes in Graphene

18. July (13-17) 2015, Interaction effects in graphene and related materials (San Sebastian, Spain)

    [Invited]: Majorana Zero Modes in Graphene

19. June (22-26) 2015, Graphene Week 2015 (Manchester, UK)

    [Poster]: Majorana Zero Modes in Graphene

20. May (13-17) 2015, Microsoft Numerics Meeting (Copenhaguen, Denmark)

21. March (2-6) 2015, APS March Meeting 2015 (San Antonio, USA)

    [Oral]: Majorana bound states without topological superconductivity [Oral]: SNS junctions in nanowires with spin-orbit coupling: role of confinement and helicity on the sub-gap spectrum

22. September (23-24) 2014, Mini-workshop “Topological Nanodevice Modeling” (Delft, The Netherlands)

    [Invited]: MatG, a quantum simulator

23. February (18-21) 2014, GraphEsp2014 (Lanzarote, Spain)

    [Oral]: Stacking boundaries and transport in bilayer graphenes

24. June (10-14) 2013, Novel 2D materials: Tuning electronic properties on the atomic scale (Bremen, Germany)

    [Invited]: Properties of small-angle twisted graphene bilayers

25. September (10-14) 2012, Trends in Nanotechnology TNT2012 (Madrid, Spain)

    [Oral]: AC Josephson effect and Majorana Fermions

26. January (24-27) 2012, Reunión bianual GEFES (University of Seville, Spain)

    [Invited]: Localization in twisted graphene bilayers

27. January (9-13) 2012, Fundamental Aspects of Graphene and Other Carbon Allotropes (KITP, Santa Barbara, USA)

    [Oral+Poster]: Non-Abelian gauge fields in Moiré graphene bilayers

28. October 18th, 2011, Graphene for Future Emerging technologies (CSIC, Madrid,Spain)

29. September 27th, 2011, Graphene: transport and spintronics (ICMM, Madrid,Spain)

30. April (11-14) 2011, ImagineNANO 2011 - Graphene (Bilbao, Spain)

    [Oral]: Graphene Ratchets

31. March (13-19) 2010, APS March Meeting (Portland, USA)

    [Oral]: Quantum pumping in graphene

32. August (1-8) 2009, Graphene (Benasque, Spain)

    [Poster]: Pseudospintronics in bilayer graphene [Poster]: Quantum pumping in graphene [Poster]: Strains and magnetic fields in suspended graphene

33. September (9-14) 2007, Fundamental Problems of Mesoscopic Physics and Nanoelectronics (Mojacar, Spain)

    [Poster]: Geometrical spin dephasing in quantum dots [Poster]: Pseudodiffusive magnetotransport in graphene

34. August (29-31) 2007, CFN Summer School on Nanoelectronics (Bad Herrenalb, Germany)

    [Invited]: Spin qubits

35. August 2006, MCRTN International School on the Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics (Balaton, Hungary)

    [Oral+Poster]: Geometrical spin dephasing in quantum dots

36. April (2-7) 2006, MCRTN Spring School ’Quantum Optics and Computation’ (Riomaggiore, Italy).

37. March 2006, EuroSQIP meeting (Paris, France).

38. October (2-5) 2005, Marie Curie RTN Network meeting, Nanoscale Dynamics and Quantum Coherence (Catania, Italy)

    [Poster]: Current conserving model of inelastic scattering

39. November 2003, Full Counting Statistics Workshop (Marseille, France)

40. October (1-4) 2003, Spin and Charge Transport in nanostructures - Euroconference (Mallorca, Spain)

    [Poster]: Coherence and Coulomb blockade in single electron devices: A unified treatment of interaction effects

41. September (1-5) 2003, Nanoscale Dynamics, Coherence and Computation, Marie Curie RTN Network meeting (Braga, Portugal)

    [Poster]: Coherence and Coulomb blockade in single electron devices: A unified treatment of interaction effects

42. April 2002, Nanoscale Dynamics, Coherence and Computation, Marie Curie RTN Network meeting (Rome, Italy)

43. March, 2002, Quantum Information, European Science Foundation (San Feliu de Guixols, Spain)

44. September, 2001, Novena Escuela de Otoño de Física Teórica (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

45. April (24 - 28) 2001 , Nanoscale Dynamics, Coherence and Computing - Marie Curie RTN Network meeting (Mátrafüred, Hungary)

    [Oral]: Resonant Scattering and radiative forces in 3D light waveguides

46. Septiembre, 2000, Forces and Tunnel 2000 (Toledo, Spain)

47. September, 2000, Octava Escuela de Otoño de Física Teórica (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

48. November, 1999. Field Emission EUROFE 99 (Toledo, Spain)

Short stays and invitations

1. Seminar series in Quantum Tinkerer group, Delft, Netherlands, 23rd October 2023 (online)

   [Seminar]: Quantica.jl: simulations of tight-binding systems in the Julia language

2. Theory Seminar series in LPS Orsay, Paris, France, 27th January 2022 (online)

   [Seminar]: Three Graphene-based Recipes for Majorana Bound States

3. Seminarios alternativos del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 26th April 2018

   [Seminar]: Moiré patterns and spontaneous deformations in 2D crystals

4. Ciclo Jóvenes Investigadores Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 14th October 2016

   [Seminar]: Topology: a new perspective on electronic systems

5. Seminarios alternativos del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 14th May 2014

   [Seminar]: Stacking boundaries in graphene multilayers

6. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid [C-V], Madrid, Spain, 11th April 2012

   [Seminar]: Non-Abelian gauge fields in twisted graphene bilayers

7. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), workshop on The Physics of Graphene, Santa Barbara, USA, 4th January - 30th March, 2012

   [Seminar]: Twisted graphene bilayers

8. Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, 26th October 2011

   [Seminar]: Single-parameter pumping in graphene

9. ICMM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 17th March 2011

   [Seminar]: Non-adiabatic pumping in graphene

10. IFISC/Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 6-9 April 2009

    [Seminar]: Pseudospintronics in bilayer graphene

11. Universtät Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 15-18 December 2008

    [Seminar]: Pseudospintronics in bilayer graphene

12. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 9-27 May 2008

13. Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany, November 2007

    [Seminar]: Universal scaling of current fluctuations in disordered graphene

14. Budapest Technical University, Budapest, Hungary, 7-19 January 2007

    [Seminar]: Geometric spin manipulation and relaxation

15. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, November 2006

    [Seminar]: Geometric spin manipulation and relaxation

16. ICMM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain third week of September 2006

    [Seminar]: Geometrical spin relaxation

17. Escuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, week ending October 2005

18. Escuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, from March to May 2004

19. Marseille University, Marseille, France, 19 - 29 November 2003

20. Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, July 2003

21. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), Santa Barbara, USA, 14th November -12th December, 2002

22. Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), Santa Barbara, USA, 14th November -13th December, 2001

Outreach

• Press interview about our Nature article on Majoranas in full shell nanowires for El Pais - January 13th, 2023.

• Radio interview about topological materials and quantum computation for Universo Paralelo (Radio Círculo) - July 18th, 2018.

• Youtube Interview about quantum technologies and topological materials for Fundación BBVA - September 18th, 2017.

• TV Interview about Quantum Computation for La2 Noticias, TVE2 - September 12th, 2017.

• Journal article titled 'Materiales 2D'. Rafael Roldán, Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Pablo San-Jose. Revista Española de Física 31 (3), (2017).

• Press interview for Servimedia, titled 'La antimateria: el reverso oculto de todo lo que nos rodea' - April 16th, 2017.

• Journal article sobre el Premio Nobel de Física 2016. A Cortijo, E Prada, P San-Jose, R Aguado, J Fernández-Rossier. [Revista Española de Física 30 (4), 7-9 (2016)](http://revistadefisica.es/index.php/ref/article/view/2227).

• Press interview, about the 2016 Physics Nobel price by La Vanguardia, titled 'El Nobel de Física abre la puerta a una revolución tecnológica' - October 4th, 2016.

• Radio interview about Majoranas in graphene, in the program "Luciérnagas" (rtvd.org) - April 5th, 2016.

• Press interview about graphene by Europa Press, titled 'La tecnología apuesta por el grafeno' - April 3rd, 2016.

• Radio interview about graphene Majoranas and quantum computation, in the program "Principio de Incertidumbre" (Canal Extremadura) - March 12th, 2016.

• Press interview for SINC, titled 'Demostrado: se pueden obtener partículas de Majorana en grafeno' - March 4th, 2016.

• Radio interview about rare earths in the program "Más de uno" (Onda Cero) - May 14th, 2015.

• Press interview for the science section INnovadores of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, titled 'Del petróleo al coltán, las materias primas que pueden hacer tambalear a la geopolítica mundial' - June 6th, 2014.

• Press interview for RTVE, titled 'El grafeno tricapa, un cristal que se puede reconfigurar con un campo eléctrico' - May 6th, 2014.

• School presentation at the 'Príncipe de Asturias' primary school, titled 'El Grafeno' - January 28th, 2014.

• Press interview for the science section EM2 of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, titled 'El periódico electrónico y enrollable llegará en 2015' - October 12th, 2012.

• Press interview for the science section EM2 of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, titled 'Pantallas flexibles: la revolución del grafeno' - November 25th, 2011.

• School presentations titled 'Materiales asombrosos'

  • Presentation for students from IES 'La Laguna', on March 18th, 2011.

  • Presentation for the Week of Science (CSIC), on November 15th, 2011.

  • Presentation at the IES Los Olivos, on the May 21st, 2012.

  • Presentation at the IES Julio Caro Baroja on May 23rd, 2012.

  • Presentation at the IEM (CSIC) on June 27th, 2012.

  • Presentation at the IES Fortuny, on November 13th, 2012.

  • Presentation at the Saint Anne's School, on January 8th, 2013.

  • Highlighted on the DIGITAL.CSIC homepage, from May 14th till May 24th, 2015.

• Press interview for El Público titled 'Una mina de lápiz basta para estudiar la "partícula de Dios"'- February 28th, 2011.

• Journal interview for Physics World (February 1st, 2011), titled 'Theorists turn to graphene for clues to Higgs'. Also featured in Nature, and other media.

• Press interview for the science section Eureka of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, titled '"Superteflón" para el hogar del futuro' - November 14th, 2010.

Teaching

• "Introduction to Graphene", classes in official Master "Nanophysics and Advanced Materials" UCM, Madrid, 21st-23rd November 2023 [3 hours].

• "Introduction to Graphene", classes in official Master "Nanophysics and Advanced Materials" UCM, Madrid, 15th-17th December 2020 [3 hours].

• "Introduction to Graphene", classes in official Master "Nanophysics and Advanced Materials" UCM, Madrid, 27th-28th November 2018 [3 hours].

• Course on "An introduction to MathQ, a simulation platform for quantum systems", ICMM-CSIC, Madrid, 4th-5th July 2017 [6 hours].

• Co-advisor to the PhD thesis by Luis González-Arraga "Modelling spin correlations in graphene and chiral molecules" (defended cum laude on May 11th, 2018).

• Co-advisor to the PhD thesis by Francesca Finocchiaro "Quantum Transport And Topological Features In Two-Dimensional Materials" (defended cum laude on June 22nd, 2018).

• Co-advisor to the PhD thesis by Fernando Peñaranda "Topological superconductivity in nanowires and two-dimensional crystals" (defended cum laude on April 19th, 2023).

• Course on "Numerical simulations in Mathematica", as part of the Official Master Programme on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies (Autonoma University), Madrid, November 2010 [19.5 hours].

• Co-advisor to the Diploma thesis by Petra Dietl, "Numerical studies of electronic transport through graphene nanoribbons with disorder", Karlsruhe, March 2009.

• Advisor to the Diploma thesis by Burkhard Scharfenberger, "Spin-orbit interaction in quantum dot rings: spin manipulation and transport", Karlsruhe, September 2007.

• Assitant for the tutor lectures on Statistical Mechanics (Theoretische Physik F, Karlsruhe University), Summer semester 2006 [29.5 hours].

Organization of scientific events

• April (11-12) 2018, Kick-off workshop of the Spanish Network for 2D Materials (SP2) (Madrid, Spain) – Organizer

• May (14-20) 2017, Majorana States In Condensed Matter: Towards Topological Quantum Computation (Majorca, Spain) – Organizing - committee

• January (13-15) 2016, IX GEFES Meeting 2016 (Cuenca, Spain) – Organizing committee

• October (1-10) 2003, Marie Curie Research and Tranining Network Meeting - Nanoscale Dynamics, Coherence and Computation (Majorca, Spain) – Organizing committee

Other

• Outstanding Referee for the IOP (2016).

• Assistant Doctor (‘Ayudante Doctor’) certification from ANECA (Sep. 2010)