Fitxa persona

I graduated in Physics in 1981 at the University of Salamanca. I obtained my doctorate in Physics in 1986 (U. de Valladolid). I continued my training with two postdoctoral stays at the universities of Valencia and Regensburg (Germany) with Prof. W. Weise, with scholarships from the Spanish Government and the German DAAD. 

Since 1989 I have been a “profesor titular” at the University of Valencia. Since then I have supervised eight doctoral theses and participated in numerous national and international research projects. I have been principal investigator (PI) of a European project (INTAS: 93-3455) and PI of National Plan projects from January 2012 to December 2020. I have also been the coordinator of an Integrated Action with the University of Coimbra (Portugal ).

My basic line of research in recent years has been the development of effective theories in hadronic dynamics. Important results have been obtained in the description of the masses, magnetic moments and other form factors of the lightest octet and decuplet baryons using covariant chiral perturbation theory. The use of an alternative renormalization scheme has led to serious advances in improving the convergence of the chiral series and in the understanding of these observables. Furthermore, by obtaining a good description of the dependence of numerous magnitudes on the mass of quarks, our results have demonstrated their relevance in the analysis of Lattice QCD data.

Another line of impact work has been the study of electroweak reactions of baryons relevant to the study of the fundamental properties of neutrinos. Important results have been obtained in aspects such as axial form factors and their observational relevance, the role of partial conservation of the axial current in nuclei or the reconstruction of the energy of neutrinos detected in quasielastic collisions.

[Biography, english version]