I earned a degree in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2014. Later, I pursued a Master in Theoretical Physics, focused in cosmology and elementary particles. During this period, my fields of interest became wider, and eventually focused in theoretical condensed matter physics. As a result, my MSc thesis was about this subject, under the supervision of Karl Landsteiner, from Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT-UAM), at Madrid.

After finishing the Master, I have been hired by means of a state fellowship in order to continue my career. Currently, I am working in the Theory of Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Technologies  group at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), as a PhD student under the supervision of Ramón Aguado.

My line of research heretofore is the theoretical study on emergence of topologically protected Majorana non-abelian quasiparticles in semiconductor-superconductor platforms, and potential applications thereof to topological quantum computation.

Publications:

• Non-Hermitian topology: a unifying framework for the Andreev versus Majorana states controversy, J. Ávila, F. Peñaranda, E. Prada, P. San José and R. Aguado Communications Physics, 2 (1), 1-8 (2019).
• Majorana oscillations and parity crossings in semiconductor nanowire-based transmon qubits, J. Ávila, E. Prada, P. San José and R. Aguado Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033493, 2020.
• Superconducting islands with topological Josephson junctions based on semiconductor nanowires, J. Ávila, E. Prada, P. San José and R. Aguado, Phys. Rev. B 102, 094518, 2020.