Profile (CV) of the research teaching staff

Carmona Martínez, José Manuel
Department: Departamento de Física Teórica
Field: Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias

Research Institute: INSTITUTO DE BIOCOMPUTACIÓN Y FÍSICA DE SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS (BIFI)
Group: E21_23R: Grupo Teórico de Física de altas energías

UNESCO codes
  • Física de partículas
  • Física Altas Energías

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/19
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/13
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/10. (2)
Academic position: Cated. Universidad
Office phone: 976762430
Mobile phone: 637874349
Email: jcarmona@unizar.es
ORCID number: 0000-0003-2264-2306

Research interests
  • Gravedad cuantica
  • Fisica hp -- altas energias -- fenomenologia

University degrees
  • Licenciado en Ciencias Sección Ciencias Físicas. Universidad de Zaragoza. 1994

PhDs
  • Programa Oficial de Doctorado en Ciencias Físicas. Universidad de Zaragoza. 1998

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My doctoral research focused on the statistical mechanics of spin systems, applied to triviality in scalar field theories, nuclear fragmentation, and renormalization group techniques. During this stage, I carried out research stays at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France).

In my postdoctoral stage, I worked for 25 months at the University of Pisa (Italy) as a hired researcher within the European TMR network "Finite temperature phase transitions in particle physics," studying confinement in lattice QCD. My publications with the Pisa group demonstrated that the dual superconductivity of the QCD vacuum is the mechanism of color confinement.

Upon returning to the University of Zaragoza, I collaborated with the experimental nuclear physics group, participating in the solar axion search experiment CAST at CERN, and later in the IAXO collaboration, the successor experiment to CAST.

In parallel, since my doctorate, I published pioneering works on Lorentz Invariance Violations (LIV), both from a theoretical and phenomenological perspective. Between 2000 and 2003, together with José Luis Cortés, I explored traces of LIV in low-energy particle physics and the theoretical introduction of non-commutative fields. This work contributed to the development of quantum gravity phenomenology, which is currently my main research interest. This line of research seeks traces of modifications to relativistic invariance due to quantum gravity effects in various phenomenological frameworks. High-energy cosmic messengers (photons, cosmic rays, and ultra-high-energy neutrinos) are key candidates to detect these signatures.

From March 2019 to September 2023, I was the Action Chair of the COST Action CA18108 "Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach," which involved over 300 researchers from 28 European countries and 10 non-European countries, promoting collaboration between theoretical physicists and experimental communities in the detection of cosmic messengers. Currently, I am one of the two Spanish representatives in the Management Committee of the COST Action CA23130 "Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity."

I am a co-author of 81 peer-reviewed original publications, 59 conference contributions or book chapters, and 8 publications on teaching and innovation activities. I have participated in 31 research projects, 56 national and international conferences, and have given 24 specialized seminars and outreach talks (excluding conference presentations). I won an award for an essay in the VII CPAN outreach contest.

I am an editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD) and have reviewed 98 manuscripts for 22 different journals. I have served as an external evaluator for the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (2014 and 2017), the Italian PRIN2017 and Giovanni Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini programs (2018), the INFN Theory Committee (2020), the Croatian Research Foundation (2020), and the National Science Center of Poland (2024).

Between 2005 and 2009, I was a member of the Executive Board of the European ILIAS project (EU FP6). I was Director of the Theoretical Physics Department (2020-2024), Secretary Professor (2008-2020), and Secretary of the CAPA Center (2019-2023).

I have co-supervised 4 PhD theses and mentored 14 undergraduate and master’s theses since 2012. Currently, I co-supervise a thesis in cotutelle with the University of Rijeka (Croatia).


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