Curriculum Vitae
Brief Bio
I was born in Madrid, Spain. In 1989 I moved to the US, and became a US citizen in 2000. After completing my high school education, at Oak Park and River Forest High School, in the suburbs of Chicago, I moved to "only slightly less cold" New York City, where I graduated from Columbia in 1995. I then headed out to warmer climes to attend Stanford University. I obtained my PhD in Physics in 2003, for research carried out at SLAC on X-ray binaries, under the supervision of Elliott Bloom. Since 2003 I have been at UC Santa Cruz, first as a post-doc working primarily on the search for Very High Energy (> 100 GeV) emission from Gamma-ray Bursts with the Milagro TeV detector, and more recently as a project scientist within the Fermi-LAT collaboration, where my research has focused on gamma-ray pulsars.Download my CV in pdf format.