PhD in Physics (2013). Currently Associate Professor at University of Salamanca (Spain), in the Research Group in Photonics and Laser Applications (ALF-USAL). Former Research Associate at JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), within a European Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (2013-2016). Principal Investigator of a “Beca Leonardo” funded by Fundación BBVA (2017). Recipient of the EPS-QEOD Fresnel Prize in 2019 for fundamental aspects; the Physics Prize RSEF-BBVA 2019 as Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics; the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize In Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics 2021; and the ICO Prize in 2023. Principal Investigator of a 2019 ERC Starting Grant, ATTOSTRUCTURA “Structured attosecond pulses for ultrafast nanoscience”, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Fields of interest: Laser-matter Interaction, Ultrafast Phenomena, Nonlinear Optics, High-order Harmonic Generation and Propagation, Attosecond and Zeptosecond Physics, Orbital and Spin Angular Momentum, Structured Attosecond Pulses, Ultrafast Magnetism, among others.
Citation Metrics: (as of 29/02/2024, GS=Google Scholar, WoS=Web of Science).
- Total peer reviewed articles indexed in JCR: 80 (60 in the first quartile)
- Total publications (including proceedings): 182 (GS), 111 (WoS).
- Sum of the times cited: 5845 (GS), 3863 (WoS)
- h-index: 31 (GS), 24 (WoS)
Radio Usal interview (in Spanish, 11 December 2018): La USAL, pionera en un nuevo tipo de láser con importantes aplicaciones en telecomunicaciones y materiales.
Los increíbles torbellinos de luz láser [The incredible whirlwinds of laser light] (in Spanish, February 2019):
https://youtu.be/w-USmcndioY
Usal TV interview (in Spanish, December 2018):
https://youtu.be/36IdBLLLMzw
Radio Usal interview (in Spanish, 15 March 2018): Láseres de rayos X. El mundo filmado a cámara lenta.
Usal TV interview (in Spanish, December 2015):
https://youtu.be/D19NiMvlVoM
You can have a quick look at my Scientific Publications, the Press releases of scientific articles in which I was involved, and at my blog Attociencia en Colorado (in Spanish).
Selected Recent Publications:
- “Topological high-harmonic spectroscopy”, Ana García-Cabrera, Roberto Boyero-García, Óscar Zurrón-Cifuentes, Javier Serrano, Julio San Román, Luis Plaja, and Carlos Hernández-García. Communications Physics 7, 28 (2024).
- “Extreme-Ultraviolet Vector-Vortex Beams from High Harmonic Generation“, Alba de las Heras, Alok P. Pandey, Julio San Román, Javier Serrano, Elsa Baynard, Guillaume Dovillaire, Moana Pittman, Charles Durfee, Luis Plaja, Sophie Kazamias, Olivier Guilbaud, Carlos Hernández-García, Optica 9, 71-79 (2022).
- “Necklace-structured high harmonic generation for low-divergence, soft X-ray harmonic combs with tunable line spacing”, Laura Rego, Nathan J. Brooks, Quynh L. D. Nguyen, Julio San Román, Iona Binnie, Luis Plaja, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Carlos Hernández-García, Science Advances 8, eabj7380 (2022).
- “High-Order Nonlinear Dipole Response Characterized by Extreme-Ultraviolet Ellipsometry”, Kuang-Yu Chang, Long-Cheng Huang, Koji Asaga, Ming-Shian Tsai, Laura Rego, Pei-Chi Huang, Hiroki Mashiko, Katsuya Oguri, Carlos Hernández-García, Ming-Chang Chen, Optica 8, 484-492 (2021).
- “Complete spatiotemporal and polarization characterization of ultrafast vector beams“, Benjamín Alonso, Ignacio Lopez-Quintas, Warein Holgado, Rokas Drevinskas, Peter Kazansky, Carlos Hernández-García, and Íñigo Sola, Communications Physics 3, 151 (2020). Received 15 April 2020. Published 31 August 2020.
- “Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum”, Laura Rego, Kevin M Dorney, Nathan J Brooks, Quynh Nguyen, Chen-Ting Liao, Julio San Román, David E Couch, Allison Liu, Emilio Pisanty, Maciej Lewenstein, Luis Plaja, Henry C Kapteyn, Margaret M Murnane, Carlos Hernández-García, Science 364, eaaw9486 (2019).
- “Conservation of torus-knot angular momentum in high-order harmonic generation”, Emilio Pisanty, Laura Rego, Julio San Román, Antonio Picón, Kevin M. Dorney, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Luis Plaja, Maciej Lewenstein, Carlos Hernández-García, Physical Review Letters 122, 203201 (2019).
- “Controlling the polarization and vortex charge of attosecond high-harmonic beams via simultaneous spin-orbit momentum conservation”, Kevin M. Dorney, Laura Rego, Nathan J. Brooks, Julio San Román, Chen-Ting Liao, Jennifer L. Ellis, Dmitriy Zusin, Christian Gentry, Quynh L. Nguyen, Justin. M. Shaw, Antonio Picón, Luis Plaja, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Carlos Hernández-García, Nature Photonics 13, 123–130 (2019).
- “Ultraintense femtosecond magnetic nanoprobes induced by azimuthally polarized laser beams”, Manuel Blanco, Ferran Cambronero, M. Teresa Flores-Arias, E. Conejero Jarque, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García, ACS Photonics 6, 38–42 (2019).
Selected Recent Press Releases:
- La Universidad de Salamanca impulsa la investigación española en luz estructurada con la creación de la red científica Faslight. El Español (Spain). 19 January 2024
- Carlos Hernández García obtiene el Premio ICO por su trabajo en la generación a la carta de pulsos de luz ultracortos que permiten ‘ver’ átomos. Red Leonardo. Fundación BBVA (Spain). 18 December 2023
- Esculpiendo la luz láser para fotografiar la brevedad de nuestro universo. Universidad de Alicante (Spain). 7 February 2020
- El láser ultrarrápido: cómo ‘retorcer’ la luz para llegar a lo desconocido. Alicante Plaza (Spain). 7 February 2020
- Los proyectos que cambian el mundo. Las Starting Grant. RAC Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). 14 January 2020
- Best of Last Year: The top Phys.org articles of 2019. PhysicsWorld (UK). 12 December 2019
- Los Premios de Física 2019 reconocen el trabajo del catedrático Santiago Velasco y del joven investigador Carlos Hernández-García. Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). 12 December 2019
- Los Premios de la Física reivindican el valor del conocimiento para impulsar los avances tecnológicos. Expansión.com (Spain). 11 December 2019
- Dos científicos de la USAL, premiados por sus aportaciones a la Física. El Norte de Castilla (Spain). 24 September 2019
- Dos científicos de la USAL reciben 2,5 millones de Europa para sus proyectos de investigación. Radio Televisión de Castilla y León (Spain). 3 September 2019
- Dos investigadores de la Universidad de Salamanca consiguen 2.5 M€ de financiación para proyectos en la prestigiosa convocatoria ERC Starting Grants del Consejo Europeo de Investigación. Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). 3 September 2019
- La luz se puede torcer. La Razón (Spain). 3 July 2019
- Researchers Reveal Self-Torque in Twisted Light Beams. Optics and Photonics News, OSA (USA). 29 June 2019
- Twisted light gains angular momentum through ‘self-torque’. PhysicsWorld (UK). 29 June 2019
- New property of light discovered. Phys.org (USA). 28 June 2019
- Descubierta una nueva propiedad de la luz. El País (Spain). 27 June 2019
- Físicos españoles descubren una nueva propiedad de la luz. El Mundo (Spain). 27 June 2019
- Physicists discover croissant-shaped twists of light. National Geographic (USA). 27 June 2019
- Investigadores de la Universidad de Salamanca publican en Science la creación de luz con una propiedad nunca vista hasta ahora. Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). 27 June 2019
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