My main interest concerns the study of Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Mechanics, focussing my work on the liquid phase. In recent years, I have mainly participated in the applications of computer simulation to biological systems, such as the study of oncogenes and the design of viable drugs for cancer treatment and the interactions of proteins and small-molecules with biomembranes. I'm also working on the study of helium nucleation inside the lead-lithium blankets of nuclear fusion reactors and on the computation of partition functions in condensed matter systems using advanced tools such as the Wang-Landau and the Annealed Importance Sampling techniques.

Short CV

2023 - present: Full Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech
2002 - 2023: Associate Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech
1996 - 2002: Full-time assistant professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech
1996: Post-doctoral fellow at Department of Chemistry at U.C.Berkeley and full-time researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
1990 - 1995: Ph.D. Physics. Thesis title: Anàlisi de l'espectre infraroig de l'aigua mitjançant simulacions de dinàmica molecular. Supervisor: Joan A. Padró. Departament de Física Fonamental, University of Barcelona.
1983 - 1988: B.Sc. Physics. Major: Theoretical Physics. University of Barcelona.