Research
I’m a condensed matter physicist with over 20 years of experience in the field of quantum transport, modeling and simulation of nanomaterials and nanodevices. After working in Italy, France and Germany and Argentina, I joined the Department of Physics (FCFM) of the University of Chile. Here I lead an interdisciplinary team (physicists and chemists) working on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials and nanodevices.
My research centers on the electrical (quantum transport) and opto-electronic properties of quantum materials — from two-dimensional nanomaterials (graphene-based, TMDCs) to topological, driven and non-Hermitian systems — with an emphasis on understanding and controlling quantum effects arising from time-dependent fields, many-body interactions and decoherence. My current efforts increasingly focus on non-Hermitian physics, in particular the non-Hermitian skin effect and topological states of non-Hermitian systems, alongside non-equilibrium topological insulators — for example generating and tuning topologically protected states by using a laser field.
Another long-standing interest is the generation of a directed current at zero bias through quantum interference (quantum pumping). For more details on my research you can also visit my publications page or check the links in the Outreach section.
Research impact
Metrics
Research for impact (not impact factor): We strive to make research with an impact on the community and the shaping of new ideas, irrespective of where it is published. A few of our papers have been listed among the top 1% among all the papers published in Physics in the same publication year. This is the case, for example, of PRB 97 121401 (2018) which was is as of May 2025 the most cited article among the 10.127 published in Physical Review B in 2018, and also of EPJST 227 1295 (2018) which was the most cited paper of that journal (out of 361).
Two of our earlier papers on Floquet topological states made half of the core highly cited papers in an emerging research front reported by Thomson Reuters (Periodically driven systems, 2017).
The accumulated citations of all the articles have been marked within the top two percent worldwide for the four latest yearly editions (2020,2021, 2022 and 2023) according to a bibliometric study.
