I carry out my work as a senior researcher at the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión in the framework of EUROfusion, the consortium that manages European fusion research activities. My research covers a range of aspects identified as crucial in the ’European Research Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy’ (stellarator design, energy confinement, impurity accumulation…) from very different perspectives, ranging from the development of new theories to the design and exploitation of new experimental devices and diagnostics. Additionally, since 2021, I am a member of the Scientific Board of the EUROfusion Theory and Advanced Simulation Coordination, which supervises activities involving O(100) researchers, belonging to O(10) European institutions, and funded with O(10Me/year).

I have been the principal investigator of EUROfusion’s project ‘Fast code for the calculation of neoclassical toroidal viscosity’ and of three projects of the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Research. My theoretical activities fall within tasks ’Stellarator optimization’ and ’Stellarator turbulence’ of EUROfusion, and I carry out work connected to the experiment as a member of the Wentelstein 7-X and TJ-II teams. I have been granted access to top ten Tier 0 high-performance computing systems such as Marconi, and I have been involved in the development of grid computing, through the ‘Enabling Grids for E-sciencE’ European project, and in the creation of the Spanish citizen supercomputers Zivis and Ibercivis. I have made research stays at the leading international laboratories connected to stellarators. I have been the supervisor of 2 PhD students, 5 master students and 3 undergraduate students. I have lectured at the Fusion PhD program of the University Carlos III of Madrid.

I have published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals (1 in Nature), 20 of them as the main author (2 in Physical Review Letters). I have been an invited speaker 9 times at the main international conferences of my research area.