I was born in Leon, a small city in Spain, but I have lived in many places.
I have undergraduate degrees in computer engineering, philosophy, and mathematics. I did a Master of Physics at UAB and my Ph.D. in Physics at UNM, while also doing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I was a postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) at Caltech. IQI is located in the Center for Information Science and Technology, which brings together physics and information science. I am a Harvard Associate at the Department of Chemistry (at Harvard).
In a past life I worked in software at the European Central Bank, I consulted for several other banks, and I was system architect at an Artificial Intelligence company.
Lately I have come full circle. While I continue to pursue fundamental research, as a quantum computing engineer I am also trying to apply quantum annealing to real-world high profile practical problems where we can gain a critical advantage.