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 are going to go to the Botton Foundation in Madrid this summer time.
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 metallic 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 conduct.
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro
Carolina Cuestra-Lazaro’s predominant analysis pursuits lie on the intersection of cosmology and synthetic intelligence. She is considering creating strong and interpretable machine-learning fashions for development in physics, particularly for creating strategies for cosmological inference to grasp the accelerated growth 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 area theories with numerical simulations of quantum area 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 were detected on the Large Hadron Collider.
The basis additionally just lately 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 vitality 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 offer help for conferences that carry world specialists within the frontier fields of physics to Spain.