Javier Magán was born in Madrid, and received his PhD from the Instituto de Física Teórica in Madrid. He then enjoyed postdoc positions in the Netherlands (a shared position between Amsterdam and Utrecht), in Argentina at the Instituto Balseiro and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Both at Balseiro and UPenn he was a member of the It From Qubit collaboration, a large-scale international collaboration effort involving most of the leading institutions in quantum gravity, quantum field theory and quantum information, including also e.g. MIT, IAS and Stanford. He was then hired as a professor at the Instituto Balseiro where he is currently. More recently he was selected for the Ramon y Cajal fellowship in Spain, the most prestigious senior contract of the Spanish scientific system. His research comprises many interrelated aspects in theoretical physics, such as Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Information, Quantum Chaos and Quantum Complexity. His main three contributions to science and to these fields include: 1- a proposal to explain the microscopic origin of black hole entropy, published in PRX and PRL and chosen for outreach by the American Physical Society, 2- A new notion of quantum state complexity, dubbed spread complexity, which turns out to codify the universality of quantum chaotic behavior and describes dynamical aspects of the black hole interior. 3- A first principles approach to generalized symmetries in quantum field theory.
Radio Physics | Javier Magán
