Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, have been chosen by the Division of Physics as the primary cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Basis Fellows.
This yr’s recipients are supplied with a one-year stipend and a analysis fund to pursue their analysis pursuits; they are going to go to the Botton Basis 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 specific emphasis on two-dimensional supplies like graphene and transition steel dichalcogenides. His work goals to push the boundaries of our information of those supplies and unlock their full potential for future applied sciences. Benítez obtained his PhD in physics from the Autonomous College of Barcelona, the place he specialised within the spin and digital properties of those supplies, creating a deep understanding of their distinctive traits and conduct.
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro
Carolina Cuestra-Lazaro’s predominant analysis pursuits lie on the intersection of cosmology and synthetic intelligence. She is serious about creating strong and interpretable machine-learning fashions for development in physics, particularly for creating methods 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 Synthetic Intelligence and Basic Interactions and Harvard College’s Institute for Idea and Computation on the Middle for Astrophysics. Cuestra-Lazaro hails from Cuenca, the place she says “Yow will discover a few of the finest Manchego cheese.”
Fernando Romero López
Romero-López accomplished his PhD in 2021 on the College of Valencia. As a postdoc, his analysis focuses on understanding the sturdy 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 looking 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 Giant Hadron Collider.
The inspiration 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 software of physics to develop renewable power sources.
Established in 2017, the Mauricio and Carlota Botton Basis helps scientific analysis, together with the coaching of younger physicists in essentially the most prestigious universities on the planet, and to supply assist for conferences that carry world consultants within the frontier fields of physics to Spain.