BRIEF VITA

    • I started my Ph.D. (2003–2006) at the University of Zaragoza exploring localization phenomena (discrete breathers) in nonlinear discrete systems, closely collaborating with the Center of Nolinear Studies of the Los Alamos National laboratory. During this years I also delved into the structure of interaction networks in complex systems and studied nonequilibrium phenomena like synchronization, chaos, and congestion. This work earned me the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2006 and the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Physics in 2007.

      My postdoc years took me to the Scuola Superiore di Catania (Italy) as research associate, the Weizmann Institute as visiting researcher, and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) as a Juan de la Cierva fellow. During this time I broadened my focus to include disease spreading and social dynamics on networks, tackling topics like evolutionary game theory, the emergence of social consensus and the design of mitigation measures for epidemic control. In 2009, I joined the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid) as a faculty member in Applied Mathematics, where I began working on explosive phase transitions and multilayer networks.

      The former research themes stayed at the core of my research when, as a Ramón y Cajal fellow (2011–2015), I finally come back at the University of Zaragoza. In 2016, upon promotion to Associate Professor, I founded the Theoretical and Applied Modeling Group (GOTHAM) at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), where I continue as Principal Investigator and, since 2023, as Full Professor in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.

      Over my career, I’ve published more than 150 JCR-indexed papers in top journals, including Physics Reports, Nature Physics, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Nature Human Behavior. These findings have also been presented as an invited speaker at more than 60 conferences, workshops, schools, and other scientific events.
  • Research interests
    • Nonlinear dynamics
      Complex Systems and Networks
      Epidemic spreading
      Emergence of behaviors and culture in Social systems
      Synchronization phenomena
  • AWARDS, Honors, Fellowships & APPOINMENTS

    • Spanish Research Agency: Collaborator at the Division of Scientific and Technical Coordination, Evaluation, and Monitoring. - since 2025
    • Director of the Secretariat for the Organization and Monitoring of Research and Innovation of the University of Zaragoza - since 2025
    • Board Member of DIFENSC (previously GEFENOL) - since 2024
    • Scientific Committee of FISES - since 2024
    • Elected member of the directors board of COMSOTEC – since 2022
    • Research Fellow of the Center for Computational Social Science (University of Kobe, Japan) – since 2019
    • Associate Editor of Journal of Physics: Complexity (IoP) - since 2019
    • Program Chair International Conference COMPLENET - 2019 & 2020
    • Steering Committee of Latinamerican  Network Conference - since 2017
    • Board of directors of BIFI - 2015-2024
    • BIFI Physics Coordinator - 2015-2024
    • Visiting Researcher of the London Mathematical Society – 2015
    • Associate Editor of J. of Complex Networks (Oxford UP) - since 2015
    • Profesor Visitante Especial (CNPq Centro Nacional Pesquisas, Brasil) - 2014-2016
    • Distinguished Visitor of SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) - 2014
    • Associate Editor of Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (Elsevier) - since 2013
    • Elected member of the Complex Systems Society (CSS) Council - 2013-2019
    • Scientific Committee of GEFENOL Summer School, 2013-2023
    • Academic Editor of PLoS One, 2011-2022
    • Beca postdoctoral Ramon y Cajal – call 2010
    • Postdoctoral Fellowship of Weizmann Institute of Technology – call 2007
    • Beca postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva – call 2007
    • Premio Investigador Novel en Física Teórica de la RSEF- 2006
    • Premio Extraordinario de doctorado - 2006
    • Visiting researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory 2005
    • Beca de Formación de Profesorado Universitario FPU – call 2003
    • Beca Doctorado I3P – call 2002