Fitxa persona

CV summary. Date: 19/1/2026 My scientific career (25 years, four research CNEAI research 'sexenios') has focused on neutrino telescopes. I have worked in the most relevant experiments in this field (ANTARES, AMANDA, IceCube, KM3NeT) in hardware, analysis and coordination tasks. I am currently a Profesor Titular at the University of Valencia and accredited as a "Catedrático" by ANECA. My most outstanding contributions have been in dark matter searches, multi-messenger astronomy with neutrinos, neutrino properties, and hardware work for photomultiplier characterization and temporal calibration. I have 200+ publications, corresponding to an h-index of 61 (source: iNSPIRE.net, the most updated data base in the field). I have supervised 13 doctoral theses related to these topics (one of them won the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize and another the one from the Spanish Astronomy Society Prize), which have resulted in 20 publications with my students as main author (see a selection of them in C.1). Among the most relevant results of the papers from these theses, I can mention the limits for neutrino point sources with ANTARES (best limits worldwide for most Southern declinations), the limits on dark matter in the Sun and Galactic Center using data from ANTARES (the latter being the best limits at large masses worldwide), the first combined analyses with data from ANTARES and IceCube for point sources, the time calibration of ANTARES (with another using the novel technique in ANTARES based on atmospheric muons), the first search for correlations with WG and ORCA4 data and the most recent estimations of the sensitivity of KM3NeT for supernova detection. For four times, I have been IP1 of coordinated projects of the Plan Nacional and one of the six Participants (as leader of the UV group and as coordinator of a WP) of a H2020-InfraDev project. I was also the Responsible Researcher for the UV of a Marie Curie project with Harvard University. (Previously I myself was a Marie-Curie fellow at Madison-WI with Prof. Francis Halzen as supervisor). In total, I have contributed as an IP to IFIC/UV with more than 5M¿. I am currently the coordinator of the experimental groups in neutrino telescopes in Spain. I have presented the results of my work as well as general reviews (including the rapporteur talk of the entire RICAP 2018 conference and other invited review talks), at more than 70 international conferences. I am/have been closely involved in coordinating responsibilities of Working Groups (ANTARES: Calibration, Point Sources, Dark Matter, KM3NeT: Temporal Calibration, MultiDark: Neutrinos and UHECRs) and committees (ANTARES Conference Committee, of which I have been chairman, C. of Publications of ANTARES, C. of Publications of KM3NeT, Resource Review Board of KM3NeT, KM3NeT AISBL Council and the Steering Committees and Institution Boards of these experiments) My participation as a conference organizer includes TeVPA2025, VLVnT2021, HOW 2018, Dark Ghosts 2022, Dark Ghosts 2018, MultiDark, KM3NeT Bootcamp, Dark Ghosts 2013. I have been convener or member of scientific organizing committees in TAUP2021, PPNT2019, BSMNT16, MANTS16, IVICFA 2015, ICHEP 2014, VLVnT 2013, RICAP 2013, 2014 and 2016, among others. I teach at the University of Valencia (degree and master). I have contributed to various scientific dissemination activities (conferences - Valencia City of Arts and Sciences, Granada Science Park, Castellón Planetarium ... -, articles in the national press, guide to various events such as 'Expociencia', 'Wonders of Physics", CPAN talks). I was one of the 12 participants in a 160 000¿ ERASMUS+ project. Together with another IFIC researcher, I created the IFIC Office for Young Researchers, Gender and Diversity..