Department of Condensed Matter Physics,
Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS)
I studied physics and graduated with a PhD from the University of Granada in the year 2000. My post-doctoral work was under the supervision of Prof. David A. Weitz in the Department of Physics and DEAS at Harvard University. I subsequently held a lecturer position at the University of Almeria and an INEST Visiting Professor position at Harvard University. In 2008, I became Assistant Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I obtained tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. I joined the University of Barcelona as ICREA Professor in 2019.
My research interests are in experimental soft condensed matter. We study a variety of classical many-body systems that have characteristic energy scales accessible at room temperature and that are internally characterized by mesoscopic length scales. Recent research involves partially ordered fluids, colloidal crystals and glasses, as well as active and granular matter. A recurring theme is the presence of defects in the order and how they sense and respond to the local geometry, the local environment and the activity bringing the system out-of-equilibrium. We are also interested in fluid mechanics and hydrodynamic instabilities.
Curvature-Induced Twist in Homeotropic Nematic Tori.
Physical review letters Dec, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30608771
Geometrical Control of Active Turbulence in Curved Topographies.
Physical review letters Apr, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31075037
Polypropylene Carbonate-Based Adaptive Buffer Layer for Stable Interfaces of Solid Polymer Lithium Metal Batteries.
ACS applied materials & interfaces Aug, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31298521
Capillary-Based Microfluidics-Coflow, Flow-Focusing, Electro-Coflow, Drops, Jets, and Instabilities.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 03, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31663270
Reverse Janssen Effect in Narrow Granular Columns.
Physical review letters Mar, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32281839
Complexation of Pluronic L62 (EO)-(PO)-(EO)/aerosol-OT (sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate) in aqueous solutions investigated by small angle neutron scattering.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Jun, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32452477
Polarized epifluorescence microscopy and the imaging of nematic liquid crystals in highly curved geometries.
Physical review. E May, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32575280
Activity effects on the nonlinear mechanical properties of fire-ant aggregations.
Physical review. E Jul, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32794916
Behavior and mechanics of dense microgel suspensions.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 11, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33077596
Internal structure of ultralow-crosslinked microgels: From uniform deswelling to phase separation.
Physical review. E Feb, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33736086
From nematic shells to nematic droplets: energetics and defect transitions.
Soft matter Feb, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35103746
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