Emparan GarcÍa De Salazar

Biography

He is originally from Bilbao. He got both his BSc (in June 1990) and my PhD (in November 1995) in Physics from the University of the Basque Country. In January 1996 he went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his first postdoc. Two years later, he moved to Durham University, in northern England, for a second postdoc. Near the end of 1999 he took up a lecturer position back in Bilbao, under a new (but flawed) program for recovering young researchers. He took leave from there in January 2001 to move to a Fellow position at CERN (the European Lab for Particle Physics, outside Geneva). Since January 2003 he has been ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Fundamental Physics at Universitat de Barcelona. In 2016 he was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.

Research Interest

He tries to understand the nature of spacetime at its most fundamental level. They know since Einstein that, due to the existence of gravity, spacetime is a dynamical entity. So he studied the classical and quantum aspects of gravity and its most basic objects: the black holes. The natural starting point is the theory of General Relativity and the theories that naturally incorporate the ideas of holographic spacetime, namely, String and M-Theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence.