I am a professor at the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, in the Faculty of Physics of the University of València. My research is focused on astrophysical scenarios related to relativistic hydrodynamics. These include extragalactic jets from active galactic nuclei, and outflows in both X-ray binary stars and gamma-ray binary stars. Specifically, I use relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (RMHD) numerical codes to study extragalactic jet evolution and propagation and morphology, the influence of jets on the evolution of the host active galaxy, parsec-scale jet physics (emission processes, flow dynamics), microquasar jets, and pulsar wind-stellar wind interaction in gamma-ray binaries. I also participate in observational campaigns using radio interferometry techniques (Very Long Baseline Interferometry, VLBI) in collaboration with radioastronomers from different institutions to complement and test my theoretical studies.

So far, I have authored more than 80 papers published in refereed journals, most of them in journals within the first 25% of the field, according to Web of Science. My h-citation factor is now 36, according to the ADS database, and my works have collected more than 3000 citations so far. I regularly referee papers for the different most relevant journals in Astrophysics. I have given more than thirty talks in international scientific meetings, plus around twenty seminars in different universities. I have supervised three PhD thesis: Christian M. Fromm (advisors: Eduardo Ros, Manel Perucho), January 2013, University of Bonn (which obtained the Promotion Prize of the Astronomische Gesellschaft for the best PhD thesis of 2013), Laura Vega-García (advisors: Andrei Lobanov, Manel Perucho), October 2017, University of Cologne, and Jose López-Miralles (advisors: Manel Perucho, Simone Migliari, José María Martí).

I am PI of two research projects financed by the Spanish government and co-PI of another one financed by the Valencian government. I have participated in proposals and observations using VLBI networks such as the European VLBI Network and the Very Long Baseline Array. I have been PI of a Key Science Project of the space radiotelescope Radioastron and projects for the use of supercomputing facilities amounting millions of hours of allocated time. I have written outreach articles for the general press and coordinated two monographs (2009, 2016/17) about Astronomy and Astrophysics in the public science journal of the University of València, Mètode (www.metode.cat). I am currently the Director of the Language and Linguistic Policy division of the University of València.

Was born on 1980 May 24 and grew up in Alfarrasí (Valencia, Spain). Degree in Physics at the University of Valencia in year 2003. Awarded for his teaching and outreach projects on Physics and Astronomy (see CV). PhD. at the University of Valencia (Unanimus Cum Laude) on 2008 July 28, under the supervision of Prof. Jon Marcaide. Postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn (Germany), from February 2009 to January 2011. Postdoctoral MPI researcher at the MPIfR from February 2011 to September 2011. Staff astronomer at the Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden), in the Nordic ALMA Regional Centre Node, from the end of September 2011 to September 2018. Astronomer at Observatorio de Yebes (Centro de Desarrollos Tecnológicos, Instituto Geográfico Nacional) from December 2018 to May 2019. Principal Investigator (PI) of an Excellence Research Project from Generalitat Valenciana (GenT), from June 2019 to June 2022. Tenured Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) at Dpt. of Astronomy and Astrophysics (University of Valencia) from July 2022 to date. Head of Instrumentation of the Observatori Astronòmic (University of Valencia) from 2023 to date.

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Valencia (2012) and a PhD in Physics cum laude from the University of Valencia (2018). He is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher (since 2024) in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. His research field is Numerical Relativity, which investigates the dynamics of physical systems described by General Relativity (GR) using numerical algorithms and computational resources to obtain their time evolution. In particular, he is interested in studying the dynamics of astrophysical compact objects (black holes and neutron stars), as well as more exotic theoretical compact objects (boson stars and scalarized black holes) and the gravitational-wave signals they emit.

Recently, he has been producing numerical gravitational waveforms from mergers of Proca stars (vector boson stars) to compare them with real gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA detector network, of which he has been a member since 2016. He is also interested in the formation of hairy black holes, either through the superradiant instability or via mergers of boson stars, as well as in extending the boson star family by considering multiple fields and assessing their stability.

He has participated in several research projects at the national, regional, and European levels.