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General Information
| Full Name | Álvaro Parra López |
| Pronouns | he/him/his |
| alvarop@uio.no |
Academic Positions
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10/2025 – present Postdoctoral Fellow – Ramón Areces Postdoctoral Fellowship
University of Oslo, Norway - Postdoctoral advisor: Prof. Torsten Bringmann
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03/2025 – 09/2025 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Theoretical Physics UAM/CSIC, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain - Postdoctoral advisor: Prof. Alejandro Bermúdez Carballo
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12/2024 – 03/2025 Postdoctoral Fellow – Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU)
Department of Theoretical Physics and IPARCOS, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Postdoctoral advisor: Prof. José A. R. Cembranos and Prof. Luis J. Garay
Education
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2021 – 2024 PhD in Physics
Department of Theoretical Physics and IPARCOS, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - PhD Thesis: 'Cosmological production of dark matter in the Universe and in the laboratory'
- Supervisors: Prof. José A. R. Cembranos and Prof. Luis J. Garay
- Defense date: 13/12/2024
- Cum Laude (With Honors)
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2019 – 2021 Master of Science in Physics
Heidelberg University, Germany - Master’s Thesis: 'A universe on top of a Bose–Einstein condensate'
- Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Flörchinger
- Overall mark obtained: 1.0 (maximum grade in scale from 5.0 to 1.0)
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2018 – 2019 ERASMUS+ Exchange Student
University of Oslo, Norway - Courses from Master’s in Physics, specialization in Theoretical Physics
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2015 – 2019 Bachelor of Science in Physics
University of Murcia, Spain - Bachelor’s Thesis: 'Synchronization in quantum systems'
- Supervisors: Prof. Miguel Ortuño Ortín and Prof. Joakim Bergli (UiO)
- Overall mark obtained: 9.11 (scale from 0 to 10)
- Award for the Outstanding Graduate of the Year (21/11/2019)
Research Stays
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09/2023 – 11/2023 Doctoral International Mobility Stay (3 months)
Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Louisiana State University, USA - Study of entanglement in cosmologically produced pairs
- Supervisor: Prof. Iván Agulló
Funding and Grants
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2025 Ramón Areces Postdoctoral Fellowship (1+1 years)
Ramón Areces Foundation - Private funding for developing a research project in Prof. Torsten Bringmann’s group at the University of Oslo
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2023 FPU Fellowship Mobility Grant
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) - Grant for financing the stay in Prof. Agulló's group at Louisiana State University
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2021 Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) Predoctoral Fellowship
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU)
Awards and Achievements
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2023 - Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year 2023 for 'Nature' study — Physics World
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2019 - Award for the Outstanding Graduate of the Year — University of Murcia
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2018 - Erasmus+ Fellowship — European Commission
Invited Seminars
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2025 - Analogue expanding universes in BECs: Towards the observation of entangled pairs — University of Sheffield, UK (18/03/2025)
- Materia oscura, o cómo la expansión del universo es capaz de crear partículas — Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid, Spain (20/02/2025)
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2023 - Simulating gravitational production of Dark Matter in the lab — GRAPPA Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (02/03/2023)
Oral Contributions to Conferences
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2025 - From Analogue Spacetimes to Relativistic Quantum Information — When Quantum Field Theory Meets Quantum Information, Madrid, Spain (12/2025)
- Bose–Einstein condensates as Relativistic Quantum Information simulators — QTYR 2025, Madrid, Spain (07/2025)
- Analog Spacetimes and Relativistic Quantum Information in Bose–Einstein Condensates — QuIST IX, Madrid, Spain (07/2025)
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2024 - Cosmological production of dark matter in the Universe and in the laboratory — III IPARCOS Workshop, Madrid, Spain (12/2024)
- Towards probing entangled pairs in BEC analogue expanding universes — JUGAR II Workshop, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain (12/2024)
- Spacetime dynamics as a dark matter production mechanism — XVI CPAN Days, Madrid, Spain (11/2024)
- Influence of spatial curvature in particle production during the early universe — EREP 2024, Coimbra, Portugal (07/2024)
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2023 - How Measurement Realizes Quantum Vacuum Ambiguities — Analog Gravity in 2023, Benasque, Spain (06/2023)
- Scalar and vector dark matter production during inflation and reheating — QFT in Curved Spacetime Workshop, IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain (05/2023)
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2022 - Oscillations and vacuum choice in slow-roll sourced particle production — Madrid Winter Workshop 2022 (12/2022)
- Gravitational particle production in the laboratory — XXXVIII Biennial of Physics, RSEF, Murcia, Spain (07/2022)
- Shedding light on Dark Matter using BECs — 19th MultiDark Consolider Workshop, Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain (05/2022)
Poster Contributions
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2025 - Road to observing entangled pairs in BEC analog cosmological expansion — QSimFP Workshop, University of Nottingham, UK (03/2025)
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2024 - Switch-on and -off effects in particle production — Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany (02/2024)
Other Talks
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2022 - Miniature Universes — PhD Days, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid (12/2022)
Teaching Experience
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2024 – 2025 - Cosmology (24 hours) — Laboratory and problem sessions, Bachelor’s in Physics, Complutense University of Madrid
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2023 – 2024 - Cosmology (48 hours) — Laboratory and problem sessions, Bachelor’s in Physics, Complutense University of Madrid
- General Physics (24 hours) — Laboratory sessions, Bachelor’s in Chemistry, Complutense University of Madrid
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2022 – 2023 - Cosmology (18 hours) — Laboratory sessions, Bachelor’s in Physics, Complutense University of Madrid
Student Supervision
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Master's Theses
- 2025-2027 — Edvard Aasen (ongoing), University of Oslo. Thesis: 'Cosmological gravitational particle production of dark matter'
- 2025-2027 — Sander Svartbekk Sandvik (ongoing), University of Oslo. Thesis: Gravitational Particle Production during Inflation
- 2025-2026 — Elena Sánchez Barrero (ongoing), Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: 'Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Approaches to Dark Matter Production During Inflation' (co-supervised with Profs. Cembranos and Garay)
- 2024–2025 — Guillermo Gutiérrez Baquero, Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: 'Gravitational particle production in cosmological scenarios' (co-supervised with Profs. Cembranos and Garay)
- 2023–2024 — Javier Ortega del Río, Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: 'Gravitational production of dark matter' (co-supervised with Profs. Cembranos and Garay)
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Bachelor's Theses
- 2024–2025 — Paula Gregori Motto, Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: 'Quantum fields in curved spacetimes' (co-supervised with Prof. Garay and Dr. de Rivera)
- 2024–2025 — Saúl Baltasar Jiménez, Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: 'Vacuum Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory' (co-supervised with Profs. Garay and Martín-Benito)
- 2023–2024 — Lucía Velez Tartajo, Complutense University of Madrid. Thesis: 'Quantum fields in curved spacetimes' (co-supervised with Prof. Garay)
Committees
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2024 - Local Organising Committee — XVI CPAN Days, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid (19/11/2024 - 21/11/2024)
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2022 - Local Organising Committee — Madrid Winter Workshop 2022, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid (12/12/2022 - 15/12/2022)
Referee Activities
- Journal of High Energy Physics