Hi colleages, welcome to my personal
home page. Just scroll down for a summary of my research career and interests
as well as some other stuff.
Scientific Career:
I got my degree in Physical Chemistry in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1992. Also in this year I joined the Fluid Theory Group at the Instituto "Rocasolano" ( Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas ) where I worked till the beginning of 1997 as a Ph.D. Student.
In March 1997 I had my viva with a thesis entitled "Theory and simulation of phase transitions in simple and molecular fluids". . This thesis deals basically with the problem of describing gas-liquid and liquid-liquid phase equilibria by means of Monte Carlo simulation and integral-equation theories.
During my Ph.D. period I visited a coupled of times the Institut of Theoretical Physics in the Technical University of Vienna , under the direction of Prof. Gerhard Kahl. Part of my thesis, especially the work related to three-body forces was made there.
In April 1997 I moved to Oxford for a postdoctoral stay, I worked with Prof. Paul Madden of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory . In Oxford I worked on first-principles simulation of liquid metals (the Orbital-Free method) as well as on pseudopotential generation methods and integral-equations theories of application to this sort of systems.
My postdoctoral stay in Oxford finished
in March 1999, when I moved to the Imperial College, London to join Nick
Quirke's group.
Current research interests:
At the moment I'm trying to
develope a conductivity model that predicts the current-voltage properties
of an amorphous insulating material like polyethylene. This material possesses
an enormous importance in industry as it is used to manufacture the insulation
devices of high-power cables. The insulating properties of polyethylene
in the presence of high electrical fields as a function of time are not
well-known. We use computer simulation to describe the process of charge
tranport in polyethylene and similar materials.
Selected publications:
Non-scientific writing
All those lovely places...
Cercedilla
(Spain)
Cliffs of Moher (Ireland)
Vienna (Austria)
Bled (Slovenia)