Senior Faculty Members
Yashar Akrami
Research interests:
Beyond-standard cosmology, cosmic anomalies and tensions, early-Universe and dark energy models, tests of gravity, cosmic topology, links to fundamental physics, cosmological observations (CMB, large-scale structure, gravitational waves), statistical inference and high-performance computing, artificial intelligence in Cosmology
Other:
- Member of COMPACT
- Member of SKAO
- Member of Euclid Consortium
Email: yashar.akrami@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Matteo Fasiello
Research interests:
Early Universe Physics: inflation, reheating, primordial gravitational waves, primordial black holes, non-Gaussianity, inflationary particle content, axions, dark matter
Large Scale Structure: perturbative approaches to LSS dynamics
Dark Energy: model-building
Other:
- Member of EuCAPT Steering Committee and chair of EuCAPT Workshop Task Force
- Full Member of the LISA Consortium
- Member of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration
- Member of Euclid Consortium
Email: matteo.fasiello@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Juan García-Bellido Capdevila
Research interests:
My main research interests cover a wide range of topics, from Early Universe Cosmology, Inflation and Preheating, to the Late Universe: Cosmic Microwave Background, the Large and Small Scale Structure, Gravitational Waves, and the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Other:
- Full Member of LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA
- Core Member of the LISA Consortium
- Founding Member of PAU, DES, DESI and LSST
- Member of the Euclid Consortium
- Member of the Einstein Telescope
Email: juan.garciabellido@uam.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Sachiko Kuroyanagi
Research interests:
My research field is theoretical and observational cosmology, especially focusing on gravitational waves with the aim of understanding the history of the universe using current and upcoming experiments.
Other:
- Member of LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA
- Full Member of the LISA Consortium
- Member of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration
Email: sachiko.kuroyanagi@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Savvas Nesseris
Research interests:
My research is focused mainly on cosmology, the large scale structure of the Universe, but also data analysis, likelihoods and modified gravity. I am particularly interested in understanding the accelerated expansion of the Universe, the nature of dark energy and also I enjoy playing with theories beyond general relativity (GR). I have been working on Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for more than 15 years now, especially evolutionary programming, but lately I have been also intrigued by neural networks and their applications to classification of models beyond GR. Finally, I am an active member of Euclid, and other collaborations (LISA, SKAO etc).
Other:
- Member of Euclid Consortium
- Full member of the LISA Consortium
- Member of SKAO
Email: savvas.nesseris@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Postdoctoral Researchers
George Alestas
Research interests:
Dark energy, cosmology, modified gravity, topology
Other:
- Member of COMPACT
- Member of the Euclid Consortium
Email: g.alestas@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Sukannya Bhattacharya
Research interests:
Early universe cosmology, Gravitational waves, primordial black holes
Email: sukannya.bhattacharya@ift.csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Javier Carrón Duque
Research interests:
Topology, cosmology, higher order statistics
Other:
- Member of COMPACT
- Member of the Euclid Consortium
Email: me@javiercarron.com
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Xiaolin Liu
Research interests:
Gravitational waves, cosmology
Email: shallyn.liu@foxmail.com
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Alexandros Papageorgiou
Research interests:
Inflation, primordial gravitational waves, cosmology
Email: papageorgiou.hep@gmail.com
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Ziad Sakr
Research interests:
Cosmology, dark energy, modified gravity, information theory
Other:
- Member of the Euclid Consortium
Email: ziad.sakr@ift.csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
PhD Students
Changcheng Jing
Research interests:
Cosmology, Gravitational Waves, Modified Gravity, Primordial black holes
Email: changchengjing@mail.bnu.edu.cn
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Mikel Martin Barandiaran
Research interests:
Cosmic Topology, Cosmic Microwave Background, Large Scale Structure, Ultra-Large-Scale Cosmology, Higher Order Statistics, Tests of the Cosmological Principle.
Other:
- Member of COMPACT
- Member of the Euclid Consortium
Email: mikel.martin@uam.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Indira Ocampo Justiniano
Research interests:
LSS, CMB, Modified Gravity, Machine Learning, Astrophysics, and Cosmology
Other:
- Member of the Euclid Consortium
Email: indira.ocampo@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
José Javier Ortega Gómez
Research interests:
Theoretical cosmology, topology, early universe.
Other:
- Member of COMPACT
Email: jjavier.ortega@csic.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Cristóbal Zenteno Gatica
Research interests:
Inflation, early universe.
Email: cristobal.zenteno@estudiante.uam.es
Publications: InspireHEP
More info: personal webpage
Alumni and former postdoctoral researchers
PhD Students:
- David Alonso (2009 – 2013)
- Ruben Arjona (2017 – 2021)
- Santiago Avila (2012 – 2016)
- Maria Beltran Moreno (2003 – 2007)
- Victor Bosca (2019 – 2023)
- Alicia Bueno Belloso (2009 – 2013)
- Marienza Caldarola (2023 – 2026)
- Llorenç Espinosa (2018 – 2022)
- Jose Maria Ezquiaga (2015 – 2019)
- Daniel Figueroa (2006 – 2010)
- Adrian Gutierrez Adame (2021 – 2025)
- Santiago Jaraba (2021 – 2025)
- Gonzalo Morras (2021 – 2025)
- Jose Francisco Nuno (2021 – 2024)
- Walter Riquelme (2019 – 2023)
- Javier Rubio (2007 – 2011)
- Ana Salvador (2013 – 2017)
- Francisco Torrenti (2014 – 2018)
- Manuel Trashorras (2017 – 2021)
- Miguel Zumalacárregui (2008 – 2012)
Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Matteo Braglia (2021 – 2022)
- Wilmar Cardona (2017 – 2019)
- Pierre Fleury (2019 – 2022)
- Natalie Hogg (2021 – 2021)
- Elisabetta Majerotto (2009 – 2012)
- Matteo Martinelli (2019 – 2022)
- Francesco Montanari (2018 – 2020)
- Mauro Pieroni (2017 – 2019)
- Lucas Pinol (2021 – 2023)
- Martin Rodriguez Monroy (2024 – 2025)
- Ogan Ozsoy (2022 – 2025)
- Domenico Sapone (2009 – 2012)
- Andrius Tamošiūnas (2024 – 2025)