I am a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam (Germany), working at the interface between cosmology, gravitation and fundamental physics. Previously I was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics & IPhT Saclay, a Nordita Fellow and a postdoc at ITP Heidelberg.
NEWS: I have been elected senior co-chair of the LISA Cosmology Working Group and appointed deputy lead of the Euclid Gravitational Waves Science Working Group.
NEWS: My project "With Einstein on crooked paths" will develop novel methdos to identify lensed gravitational waves and study the small-scale properties of dark matter.
My research encompasses four key predictions of Einstein's theory of General Relativity: cosmology (the dynamics and history of the Universe), gravitational waves (radiation in spacetime itself), black holes (compact objects with strong gravity) and gravitational lensing (the distortion of signals travelling through the Universe). I am also interested in using these effects to test the nature of gravity and open problems in cosmology and fundamental physics, such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy, as well as astrophysics. For more details see:
My group develops the GLoW code for wave-optics gravitational lensing. I am also a main developer of the hi_class code, a fast and flexible tool to test general Dark Energy models. In the past I worked on other software implementations to investigate cosmology and graviatation.
My earlier research is contained in my PhD dissertation
"Probing the Foundations of the Standard Cosmological Model
and summarized in my
PhD defense presentation (shown below)
I love teaching and science communication with the general public (in Spanish, English or German).
Wrong Zuma? You might be looking for my sister Ana (number theorist in University of NSW) or my cousin Veronica (world food reporter in Canal Cocina).
Or my distant relative Miguel Antonio (liberal politician in the 18th century), or his brother "Uncle Tomás" (conservative general in that same period).
