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Emparan García de Salazar, Roberto
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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I'm originally from Bilbao. I got both my BSc (in June 1990) and my PhD (in November 1995) in Physics from the University of the Basque Country. In January 1996 I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, for my first postdoc. Two years later, I moved to Durham University, in northern England, for a second postdoc. Near the end of 1999 I took up a lecturer position back in Bilbao, under a new (but flawed) program for recovering young researchers. I took leave from there in January 2001 to move to a Fellow position at CERN (the European Lab for Particle Physics, outside Geneva). Then, in January 2003 I left CERN, gave up the position in Bilbao, and moved to Universitat de Barcelona as ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Fundamental Physics.
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Research Interests
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In my research I try to understand the structure of spacetime at its most fundamental level. We know since Einstein that spacetime is a dynamical entity, due to the existence of gravity. Therefore I study the classical and quantum aspects of gravity and its most fundamental objects: the black holes. The natural framework is the theory of General Relativity, in an arbitrary number of dimensions and in the theories that naturally incorporate the ideas of holographic spacetime, namely, String and M-Theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence.
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Key Words
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Quantum Gravity, String Theory, Black Holes
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