CV
🎓 Academic Qualifications
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PhD in Physics, IFAE (2021–2025)
Thesis: Searches for primordial black holes using gravitational waves data
Member of the Virgo and Einstein Telescope collaborations. Final grade: Cum Laude -
M.Sc in Financial Risk Management, UNIR (2023–2024)
Thesis: Sobre el efecto de modelos de volatilidad no lineales en la ecuación de Black-Scholes para la valoración de opciones (On the effect of non-linear volatility models in Black-Scholes equation for option valuation)
Final grade: 9.72 / 10 -
M.Sc in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology, UAB (2020–2021)
Thesis: Searches of gravitational waves from asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using CNNs Final grade: 8.60 / 10 -
B.Sc in Economics, UOC (2017–2023)
Thesis: On the usage of option contracts to maximize revenues under value investing axioms Final grade: 8.79 / 10 -
B.Sc in Aerospace Technologies Engineering, UPC (2016–2020)
Thesis: Simulation of planetary atmospheres Final grade: 8.87 / 10 | Graduated 2nd out of 65 students
🧑🏫 Academic & Research Positions
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Postdoctoral Researcher, IFAE, Barcelona (Apr. 2025 – Present)
Gravitational wave data analysis, focusing on PBHs and scattered light. -
Visiting Researcher, MIT, Cambridge, USA (Sep.–Oct. 2024)
LIGO-MIT, under Dr. Lisa Barsotti – scattered light noise estimation. -
Visiting Researcher, Caltech, Pasadena, USA (Oct.–Dec. 2022)
LIGO-Caltech, under Dr. Hiro Yamamoto – scattered light noise estimation. -
Visiting Researcher, European Gravitational Observatory, Italy (Oct.–Dec. 2021)
Commissioning Virgo’s instrumented baffle for scattered light monitoring. -
Undergraduate Researcher, UPC Physics Dept. (2018–2020)
Atmospheric dynamics simulation and high-performance computing. -
Research Stay, ICFO – Quantum-Nano Photonics Group (2017)
👨🏫 Teaching
Associate Professor:
- EADA Business School (Jan. 2024 – Present)
Master level courses:- Business Analytics for Fintech
- Data Analytics in Sustainability
- Quantitative Finance with Python
- Toulouse Business School – TBS (Nov. 2024 – Present)
Master level courses:- Introduction to AI for Finance
- Advanced AI for Finance with Python
👨🔬 Industry & Tech
- Data Analyst, Baboon Technologies (Jun. 2021 – Jun. 2024)
Developed quantitative models for financial and macroeconomic data analysis.
👨🎓 Students Supervised
Mentored the daily developments of the following Master Theses:
- Study of primordial black holes using GW detectors – Elisabet Vallejo, UB (2024–Present)
- GW detection using deep learning in LIGO/Virgo – Roberto Rodiño, UAB (2022)
- Reduced Order Models for GW using ML – Miquel Santasusana, UAB (2022)
💻 Skills
- Programming: Python, C, C++, R, MATLAB, LaTeX, MPI
- Tools: Simulink, SolidWorks, Git, Linux
- Office: Microsoft Office, Google Workspace
🌍 Languages
- Catalan: Native
- Spanish: Native
- English: Bilingual (Cambridge Advanced Certificate)
- German: Upper Intermediate (B2 – Generalitat)
🏆 Awards & Grants
- Nova Talent – Top 10 Student (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry)
- SEDEA – Top 10 Aerospace Engineering Graduate in Spain
- Spanish Ministry of Education – Collaboration Grant
- Generalitat de Catalunya – Extraordinary Baccalaureate Distinction