I earned my Ph.D. in Computational Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain) in 2006. From 2006 to 2010, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at University College London (United Kingdom). In 2010, I joined the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (Spain) as a JAE-DOC Research Fellow. In 2014, I was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney (Australia), where I served as a Senior Lecturer until 2020. In 2019, I received a “Ramón y Cajal” Research Fellowship from the Spanish government and returned to the Department of Physics at UPC, where I was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025. Since December 2025, I have been an ICREA Research Professor in Spain.

I work at the intersection of fundamental materials physics, advanced simulation algorithms, and machine learning. My vision is to harness the growing capabilities of computational methods and artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery, design and understanding of next-generation materials for energy storage and conversion. These materials include solid-state electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage, caloric materials for environmentally friendly heating and cooling, photovoltaic compounds for sustainable energy generation, and catalytic nanostructures for green fuel and chemical production.