Carlos Roberto Pena Ruano
Theoretical Physics
Instituto de Fisica Teorica
Spain
Biography
Carlos Roberto Pena Ruano is Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics and the Institute for Theoretical Physics UAM/CSIC of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research focuses on strong interaction effects in various areas of elementary particle physics: flavour dynamics, breaking of chiral symmetry in QCD, electroweak symmetry breaking. Most of his work is carried out using lattice field theory methods. He teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, help running the UAM Graduate School in Theoretical Physics, and participate actively in IFT outreach activities.
Research Interest
Understanding the role of strongly coupled dynamics in various realms of particle physics, the computation of hadronic weak matrix elements relevant to flavour physics; low-energy QCD dynamics (pion and kaon physics, chiral symmetry breaking etc.); strong interaction models for electroweak symmetry breaking; and the high temperature behaviour of non-abelian quantum field theories.
