Fitxa persona

He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Valencia (1983). He has worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany (1984-1986) and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1987-1993). In 1994, he joined the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) in Valencia, initially as a researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and later (1998) as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Valencia.

His research focuses on the study of the elementary constituents of matter and the forces that govern their structure at the most fundamental level. Expert in quantum field theories and their applications to elementary particle physics, his scientific contributions have enabled highly relevant tests of the Standard Model of the fundamental interactions and precise determinations of its parameters. He has an extensive list of publications in the most prestigious international particle physics journals and has led and collaborated on numerous research projects both in Spain and abroad. In 2010, he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). In 2025, he was appointed Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain.

He has served as director of the Institute of Corpuscular Physics of Valencia (IFIC, 1999-2003), coordinator of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in the Valencian Community (2003-2009), coordinator of the European network FLAVIAnet on quark physics (2006-2010), and director of the National Center for Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics (CPAN, 2007-2022), which brings together Spanish research groups in these fields. He is also an editor of the International Journal on High Energy Physics (since 1997), a member of the Particle Data Group (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), and a scientific advisor to various international laboratories and institutions.

He has published a popular science book on "The Secrets of the Higgs Boson" (Catarata Publishers, 2021).

Scientific Publications