I carry out experimental research in molecular and macromolecular soft matter, employing techniques such as calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, and especially broadband dielectric spectroscopy. I work on molecular and polymeric glass formers, orientationally disordered crystals and plastic crystals, and binary mixtures and amorphous dispersions. The focus is on solid-solid phase transitions and glass transitions, and in particular on the conformational dynamics and relaxation dynamics associated with the glass transition (structural and Johari-Goldstein relaxations) in glasses and orientationally disordered solids.
My activity in recent years has focused on amorphous formulation of active pharmaceutical ingredients to enhance their bioavailability. I am currently in charge of the UPC semester of the European Master Biopham, which aims at creating a generation of experts in material science applied to the pharmaceutical industry.

Short CV

2020 - present: UPC person in charge of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree “Biopham”, run by a consortium of 4 European universities and financed by the EU (www.master-biopham.eu/).
2019 - present: Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
2010 - 2019: Lecturer (Professor Lector), Department of Applied Physics and Nuclear Engineering (after 2015, Department of Physics), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
2009 - 2010: Juan de la Cierva research associate (funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación). Project: Optical nonlinearities in photonic structures, the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO), Castelldefels.
2008: Postdoctoral research contract. The Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO), Castelldefels.
2004 - 2007: PhD in Natural Sciences. PhD thesis title: Surface electronic structure of fullerides: effects of correlation, electron-phonon coupling, and polymerization. Department of Physics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
1997 - 2003: Degree in Physics. University of Trieste (Italy).