Albert Elias López
Albert studied the double bachelor’s degree in Physics and Chemistry in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, graduating in 2019. The following year he enrolled in the master’s degree in High energy physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology offered by the same university and organized by IFAE and ICE. The bachelor’s thesis involved the optimization of the event selection procedure of the vector-boson-fusion Higgs production mechanism to a ditau decay. During the master’s degree he became more interested in astrophysics than particle physics, and thus the master’s thesis involved research in gravitational wave detection using deep neural networks. Both thesis were carried alongside researchers in the Atlas group and Virgo group in IFAE, respectively.
The next academic academic chapter is a PhD research position within the IMAGINE project. He now focuses on the magnetic field creation and evolution of planetary bodies, which involves how different physical phenomena (such as turbulence, or chemical and thermal convection) influence the internal dynamo action. The final objective is to clarify the long term magnetic evolution and its dependence the size, composition and the cooling processes.
He has also worked as a high-school and university tutor which provided experience in science teaching and communication. Albert has given lectures on physics, chemistry and mathematics to all high-school levels and some university courses such as Calculus, Algebra, and introductory courses of physics and chemistry.
He defended his PhD in October 2025 and is now a post-doc in Leiden Observatory.