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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 left for sunny Santa Barbara in California to begin my life in the postdoc diaspora, luckily accompanied by my wife.
After two years of continuous sunshine, in January 1998 we moved to Durham, in northern England, for a second postdoc. In 1999 I was offered a lecturer position back in Bilbao, under a new program for recovering young researchers. But I felt it was a bit too early to settle there. So when I was offered a Fellow position at CERN (the European Lab for Particle Physics, outside Geneva), I took a leave and went abroad again in January 2001.
While at CERN my research went very well, but we weren't too happy with how things were going back in Bilbao (that's a long story...). Although we'd never lived in Barcelona before, it seemed a nice place to settle in.
And so we came here in 2003. So far so good.
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Research Interest
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If you want to understand deeply a subject, it is usually a good idea to take it to its extreme limits. So if you are interested in what space and time are at their most fundamental level, then you should look into those situations where all our intuitions about them go wrong. This is what happens in a black hole --- a void of pure space and time torn apart from the world outside it--- and at the very beginning of the Universe.
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KeyWords
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Quantum Gravity, String Theory, Black Holes
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ERC Codes
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Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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