Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, had 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 may 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 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 acquired 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 habits.  

Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

Carolina Cuestra-Lazaro’s important analysis pursuits lie on the intersection of cosmology and synthetic intelligence. She is concerned with 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 acquired 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 Elementary Interactions and Harvard College’s Institute for Principle and Computation on the Heart for Astrophysics. Cuestra-Lazaro hails from Cuenca, the place she says “You’ll find a number 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 area theories with numerical simulations of quantum area 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 were detected on the Massive Hadron Collider.

The muse 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 utility 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 earth, and to supply help for conferences that deliver world specialists within the frontier fields of physics to Spain.