Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, had been chosen by the Department of Physics as the primary cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation Fellows.
This 12 months’s recipients are supplied with a one-year stipend and a analysis fund to pursue their analysis pursuits; they may go to the Botton Foundation in Madrid this summer season.
L. Antonio Benítez
A twin citizen of Spain and Colombia, L. Antonio Benítez is an MIT postdoc whose analysis focuses on the investigation of the digital properties of novel quantum supplies, with a selected emphasis on two-dimensional supplies like graphene and transition steel dichalcogenides. His work goals to push the boundaries of our data of those supplies and unlock their full potential for future applied sciences. Benítez obtained his PhD in physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the place he specialised within the spin and digital properties of those supplies, creating a deep understanding of their distinctive traits and habits.
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro
Carolina Cuestra-Lazaro’s foremost analysis pursuits lie on the intersection of cosmology and synthetic intelligence. She is interested by creating sturdy and interpretable machine-learning fashions for development in physics, particularly for creating strategies for cosmological inference to know the accelerated enlargement of the universe. She obtained her PhD in astronomy and astrophysics on the Institute for Computational Cosmology, and now holds a shared place between MIT’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions and Harvard University’s Institute for Theory and Computation on the Center for Astrophysics. Cuestra-Lazaro hails from Cuenca, the place she says “You can find some of the best Manchego cheese.”
Fernando Romero López
Romero-López accomplished his PhD in 2021 on the University of Valencia. As a postdoc, his analysis focuses on understanding the robust interactions amongst quarks and gluons, described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). By combining efficient subject theories with numerical simulations of quantum subject theories (lattice QCD) and machine-learning instruments, he’s searching for a greater understanding of the mechanisms of confinement, how protons, neutrons, and different hadrons are shaped, the properties of atomic nuclei, and the character of unique hadrons which have been detected on the Large Hadron Collider.
The basis additionally not too long ago funded scholarships for 2 PhD physics college students at MIT: Oriol Rubies Bigorda, who’s researching the physics of interacting quantum particles and their purposes in future quantum applied sciences, and Miguel Calvo Carrera, who’s within the utility of physics to develop renewable power sources.
Established in 2017, the Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation helps scientific analysis, together with the coaching of younger physicists in essentially the most prestigious universities on the earth, and to supply help for conferences that deliver world specialists within the frontier fields of physics to Spain.