Here you can find the slides/notes of some of my lectures, as well as links to my popular science articles, book reviews, and other outreach activities:

Lectures

• “Five topics on Quantum Field Theory”, lectures at TAE 2011 (Bilbao, Spain)
  • Lecture 1: Gauge theories
  • Lecture 2: Symmetries
  • Lecture 3: Renormalization
  • Lecture 4: Anomalies
  • Lecture 5: Effective field theories

•  “Introduction to black holes” (for first year college students)

• “Introduction to anomalies and their phenomenological applications”, lectures at TAE 2013 (Benasque, Spain)

•  ”Introduction to Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory”, PhD Course at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (February/March 2015 & 2016)
  • Lecture 1: Generalities about anomalies
  • Lecture 2: The axial anomaly
  • Lecture 3: Gauge anomalies
  • Lecture 4: Gravitational anomalies
  • Lecture 5: Phenomenology
  • Lecture 6: Functional methods
  • Lecture 7: Anomalies and topology

• “Quantum Field Theory and Standard Model”, lectures at TAE 2017 (Benasque, Spain)
  • Lecture 1: From elementary particles to quantum fields
  • Lecture 2: Renormalization I
  • Lecture 3: Renormalization II. Locality and unitarity.
  • Lecture 4: Symmetries and their breaking. Massive gauge fields. The Higgs mechanism

• “Anomalies and Differential Geometry”, PhD Course Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (June 2019)

• “Quantum Field Theory”, lectures at TAE 2019 (Benasque, Spain)

Popular science articles

• “Richard Feynman, un mago de la Física” (in Spanish). Article published in CIC-Network (vol. 5, 2009)

• “De la superconductividad al bosón de Higgs” (in Spanish). Article published in Investigación y Ciencia (July 2014)

• “Una dualidad maravillosa” (in Spanish). Article published in Investigación y Ciencia (November 2017)

• “El legado de Noether, hoy” (in Spanish). Article published in Investigación y Ciencia (December 2018)

• “Philip Anderson: el eterno legado de un genial cascarrabias” (in Spanish): Article published in Investigación y Ciencia (June 2020)

• “El soñador de la teoría final” (in Spanish): Article published in Investigación y Ciencia (October 2021)

Book reviews

• “Kenneth Wilson” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Kenneth Wilson and Quantum Fields” (World Scientific 2015), published in Investigación y Ciencia, May 2016.

• “Weinberg: de lo cósmico a lo humano” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Third Thoughts” by Steven Weinberg (Harvard University Press 2018), published in Investigación y Ciencia, March 2019.

• “La entropía, o una cuestión de ignorancia” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Anxiety and the Equation” by Eric Johnson (The MIT Press, 2018), published in Investigación y Ciencia. May 2019,

• “Un viaje alucinante al fondo de la naturaleza” (in Spanish). Review of the book “El LHC y la frontera de la física” by Alberto Casas (Catarata 2019), published in Investigación y Ciencia, October 2019.

•  “Klaus Fuchs, el físico que contaba demasiado” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Trinity” by Frank Close (Allen Lane 2019), published in Investigación y Ciencia, April 2020.

•  ”Mecánica cuántica sin misterios” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Verdades y mentiras de la física cuántica” by Carlos Sabín (Catarata 2020), published in Investigación y Ciencia, July 2020.

•  “¿Mecánica cuántica o misticismo cuántico?” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Something Deeply Hidden” by Sean Carroll (Dutton 2019), published in Investigación y Ciencia, August 2020.

• “Memento mori cósmico” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Until the End of Time” by Brian Greene (Random House 2020), published in Investigación y Ciencia, November 2020.

•  “Un manual para asaltar los cielos” (in Spanish). Review of the book “The Cosmic Revolutionary Handbook” by Luke A. Barnes & Geraint F. Lewis (Cambridge University Press 2020), published in Investigación y Ciencia, January 2021.

• “Un cuaderno de bitácora de la cosmología moderna” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Cosmology’s Century” by P. J. E. Peebles (Princeton University Press 2020), published in Investigación y Ciencia, April 2021.

• “La ciencia y sus demonios” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Bedeviled” by Jimena Canales (Princeton University Press 2020), published in Investigación y Ciencia, July 2021.

• “Deconstruir un icono cultural” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Hawking Hawking” by Charles Seife (Basic Books 2021), published in Investigación y Ciencia, October 2021.

• “La vida y la obra de Kurt Gödel” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Journeys to the Edge of Reason” by Stephen Budiansky (Oxford University Press 2021), published in Investigación y Ciencia, December 2021.

• “La «cajalización» de la física española” (in Spanish). Review of the book “Blas Cabrera, científico español y universal” by José Manuel Sánchez Ron (Catarata 2021) published in Investigación y Ciencia, April 2022.

• “Un genio adicto al pensamiento” (in Spanish). Review of the book “The Man from the Future” by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Penguin 2021) published in Investigación y Ciencia, July 2022.

Other media

• “Los secretos del muon” (in Spanish). Online talk for undergraduate physics students, May 12 2021.

• Radio inteview in Onda Cero on the life and work of Chien-Shiung Wu (in Spanish, July 4 2022).