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I am an Assistant Professor and the director of the Physical Mathematics Laboratory in the Department of Mathematics at UNC. Before I was an Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, and pursued brief post-doctoral studies at Imperial College London. I am passionate about fundamental research. My interests include hydrodynamic quantum analogs, fluid mechanics, non-equilibrium soft matter physics, collective dynamics, and any other related problem found in Nature. My work blends experiments, theory, and numerical simulations.

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BACKGROUND

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, US, 2019 - present

• Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, 2015-2019

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London, England, 2015

• Visiting Researcher, University of Maryland, US, 2014-2015

• Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2010-2014

• M.Sc. Mechanical Eng., University of La Rioja, Spain, 2008

• B.Sc. Mechanical Eng., University of La Rioja, Spain, 2006

 

HONORS & AWARDS

• 2023 | Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

• 2022 | APS Gallery of Fluid Motion, Award winner, Indianapolis, IN

• 2021 | NSF CAREER award CBET

• 2021 | UNC Reynolds Junior Faculty Development Award

• 2017 | APS Gallery of Fluid Motion, Award winner, Denver, CO

• 2016 | ICTAM U.S. Early Career Travel Fellowship, Montreal, Canada

• 2014 | ARCHER Image Competition, Winner, UK National Supercomputing Service

• 2012 | Institute for Materials and Processes Grant, University of Edinburgh

• 2010-12 | Caja Madrid Fellowship, awarded by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain

• 2010-13 | Doctoral Training Grant, awarded by the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

• 2008 | M.Sc. final project honored by the University of La Rioja and awarded with a cash prize by the Institution of Engineering and Technology of Aragón and La Rioja (Spain)

• 2006 | B.Sc. awarded with an Honorific Mention to the highest rank of the graduating class

• 2006 | B.Sc. final project honored by the University of La Rioja and awarded with a cash prize by the Institution of Engineering and Technology of Aragón and La Rioja (Spain)

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INVITED TALKS​

• Fluids Mechanics Seminar, Engineering Department, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain), June 2023

• Free Boundary Problems; Lecture series and Recent Advances in Theory and Applications, Columbia University (USA), May 2023

• Physics Colloquium, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UNC Chapel Hill (USA), February 2023

• Physical Mathematics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT (USA), December 2022

• Complex Matter and Biophysics Seminar,  NC State University  (USA), November 2022

• Dept. of Mathematics Statistics Seminar, University of Strathclyde, (Glasgow, UK), Nov 2022

• Burgers Program in Fluid Dynamics, University of Maryland College Park (USA), May 2020

• Applied & Computational Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Apr 2020

• Applied Mathematics Seminar, NYU Courant Institute (USA), Apr 2020

• Complex Matter and Biophysics Seminar, Physics, NC State University (USA), Mar 2020

• Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, ESPCI (France), Oct 2019

• Mathematics of Form in Active and Inactive Media, Isaac Newton Institute (UK), Mar 2019

• Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania (USA), Feb 2019

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yale University (USA), Feb 2019

• Dept. of Mathematics, UNC Chapel Hill (USA), Feb 2019

• School of Engineering, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain), Dec 2018

• Soft Materials Structures and Devices Seminar Series, Mechanical Eng., MIT (USA), Dec 2018

• Computations in Science Seminar, Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago (USA), Oct 2018

• Nonlinear and Complex Systems Seminar, Dept. of Physics, Duke University (USA), Oct 2018

• Applied Physical Sciences Seminar, UNC at Chapel Hill (USA), Oct 2018

• Dynamics & PDE Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, Brown University (USA), Apr 2018

• Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota (USA), Mar 2018

• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University (USA), Mar 2018

• Physical Mathematics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT (USA), Feb 2018

• Fluids Seminar, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Brown University (USA), Dec 2017

• Ingenia Seminar, School of Engineering, University of La Rioja (Spain), May 2016

• Physical Mathematics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT (USA), Oct 2015

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