Carlos Calero Borrallo
Associate professor at the Condensed Matter Physics Department of the University of Barcelona and member of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the University of Barcelona. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics at the City University of New York (New York, USA), held post-doctoral appointments at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (JAE-doc fellowship), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Boston University (Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie fellowship), and became a Lecturer at the University of Barcelona in 2019. My research is in the field of soft condensed matter physics, where I use statistical physics theory and computer simulation to address the theoretical description of colloidal systems. For my research I employ tools based on statistical mechanics and a range of computer simulation techniques. My research has an interdisciplinary character, with publications in physics, materials science, physical chemistry and biophysics journals. I am currently PI of project of “Consolidación Investigadora” and co-PI of project of “Generación de Conocimiento”, both from the Spanish Ministry of Science.
carles.calero@ub.edu
Giancarlo Franzese
Giancarlo Franzese leads the Statistical Physics of Bio-Nano Complex Matter group at the University of Barcelona’s Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. A Ph.D. in Physics (Naples, 1998), after postdocs in Rome, Boston, and Naples, he moved to Barcelona with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (2003) and founded his group. An associate professor with accreditation to full professorship since 2013 in Physics of Condensed Matter, he works on theory, multiscale modeling, and experiments on biological systems, nanointerfaces, and complex liquids in collaboration with other world-leading labs. At the forefront of national and European projects in Soft Matter, he has been a visiting professor at top institutions (University of Cambridge, UC-Dublin, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems). He has won prestigious international awards, including the 2000 Italian Young CNR Research Fellow Abroad, the 2004 French National Accreditation as a University Professor, the 2012 UK Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Investigator in Soft Matter, the 2016 Catalan ICREA Academia, the 2023/24 Max Planck Society Martin Gutzwiller Fellowship “in recognition of his original and outstanding contribution to the statistical physics of biomolecules and interfaces.” Among the Top Scientists in Spain in Multidisciplinary Physics since 2016 and the top worldwide [top 26% in clarivate.com, top 3% in exaly.com, 76% more cited than the field average by scopus.com], he is a member of national and international scientific societies on Physics and Nanotechnology, university committees, editorial boards, Chief Editor for Computational Nanotechnology in Frontiers in Nanotechnology. A mentor for dozens of successful doctoral and master’s students now in academia or private companies, he is passionate about outreach and scientific dissemination. He has organized 25 international conferences, chaired 15, and given over 140 Invited Talks.
gfranzese@ub.edu
Ivan Latella
Lecturer in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona since 2022. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2016 and his PhD thesis received the Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award. He was postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique (France) in 2016-2017 and during 2022. He also was postdoctoral fellow at Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) in 2017-2019. In 2019 he joined the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona as a postdoc, and in 2020 he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship to be carried out in the same department. Since 2014 he has been member of the Organizing Committee of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics.
ilatella@ub.edu
Demian Levis
Lecturer at the Condensed Matter Physics Department of the University of Barcelona and member of UBICS (University of Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems). He obtained his PhD degree in Physics from Sorbonne Université in Paris, and then did postdoctoral stays at CNRS in Montpellier, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, the University of Barcelona as a Marie Curie Fellow and EPFL Lausanne, to finally come back to Barcelona as a Young Investigator Grantee from the Spanish Ministry of Science (‘Jovenes Investigadores’ programme). He is generally interested in out-of-equilibrium many-body systems, looking for general physical principles governing their large-scale self-organization. His expertise is in statistical mechanics and condensed matter theory, using a combination of analytical and computational approaches. Over the last years his main research focus has been to understand the nature of phase transitions and other collective phenomena in active and driven model systems. He also has interests in different problems in complex systems, such as synchronization, epidemic spreading or opinion formation.
levis@ub.edu
Maria del Carmen Miguel López
Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona since 2020, where I also graduated in Physics in 1991, and received a PhD in Statistical and Condensed Matter Physics in 1995. Postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusets Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, and at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. Appointed visiting or invited professor at the Università La Sapienza in Rome (Italy), the Université d´Orsay in Paris (France), the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara (USA), the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University, Finland), the ISI Foundation in Turin (Italy), Indiana University, Bloomington (USA), and Northeastern University, Boston (USA). Previous positions: AssociateProfessor (2006-2020), Ramón y Cajal research associate (2001-2006) and Lecturer (2000-2001) at the University of Barcelona. Awarded the Distinció of the Generalitat de Catalunya for “young scientist” in 2004, and the I3 Program of the Spanish MICINN in 2008.
carmen.miguel@ub.edu
Agustin Pérez Madrid
Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the “Universitat de Barcelona” since 2020. I received my PhD in Physical Sciences from the “Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona” in 1986. Visiting researcher at the following institutions: Gorlaeus Laboratories. Leiden. Holand, 1990; Universität Konstanz. Fakultät für Fisik. Konstanz. Germany, 1991; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Queretaro. México, regularly since 2007. Previous position: “Profesor Titular de Universidad” at the “Universitat de Barcelona” 1990-2020.
agustiperezmadrid@ub.edu
David Reguera Lopez
Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona since 2020 and member of UBICS (University of Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems). He received his B.S. degree in Physics in 1998 and his Ph.D. in 2001, both from the University of Barcelona. His thesis about nucleation phenomena was recognized by the “Ilya Prigogine Prize 2003” as the best European thesis in the field of thermodynamics. After completion of his Ph.D., he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. H. Reiss. In 2004, his research work on fluctuations in nanosystems was recognized by the “Amgen Award”. He returned to the University of Barcelona in 2004 first as “Ramón y Cajal” Researcher (2004-2007), later as Associate Professor (2007-2020) and from 2020 as Full Professor. He is promoter and coordinator of the “Spanish Interdisciplinary Network on the Biophysics of Viruses” (Biofivinet).
dreguera@ub.edu
Jose Miguel Rubí Capaceti
Miguel Rubí is a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona. He completed his graduation in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and obtained his PhD in Physics with Summa Cum Laude. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Peter Mazur at the University of Leiden. In his career, he has served as the Head of the Department, President of the Physics Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and Spanish Representative for EU Programmes. He has been the Director of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics since 1996. In 2003, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes. In the same year, the University of Trondheim conferred upon him the Onsager Medal for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He was appointed as a CAS Fellow 2007/2008 by the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2010, he received the ICREA Academia Prize from the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats. He has also been appointed as the Onsager Professor at the University of Trondheim, Sandoval Vallarta Professor at UAM, Marcos Moshinsky Professor at UNAM, and Professor at the Institute of Physics of San Luis Potosi in Mexico. In 2012 and 2013, he was a Visiting Professor at CETHIL-INSA, Lyon, and in 2014, he was a Visiting Professor at L’École Polytechnique, Paris. Professor Miguel Rubí was appointed as the Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London in 2013-14. In 2016, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU awarded him the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa. In 2017, the Jagiellonian University awarded him the Plus Ratio Quam Vis Medal.
mrubi@ub.edu