🎓 Academic Qualifications

  • 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

  • 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