Curriculum Vitae

This is my online Curriculum Vitæ as of April, 2020. A printing-friendly version is available here

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Personal details

• First name: Juan Camilo.
• Family name: López Carreño.
• Birthday: July 29^th, 1991 (I'm 33.34 years old).
• Birth place: Bogotá, Colombia.

Other contact information is available in the contact page.

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Academic Formation

• Ph. D. in Physics (2015-2019)

Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Nanociencia y Biofísica

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Thesis Title: Exciting with Quantum Light.

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Fabrice Laussy and Dr. Elena del Valle.

GPA: Sobresaliente—Cum Laude.

• Master degree in Physics (2014-2015)

Física de la Materia Condensa y de los Sistemas Biológicos, con especialidad en Nanofísica

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Thesis Title: Classical and quantum excitation of polaritons.

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Fabrice Laussy and Dr. Elena del Valle.

GPA: 9.2/10.0.

• Undergraduate degree in Physics (2009-2014)

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Thesis Title: Study of the preparation and dynamical evolution of a three-photon state in a semiconductor microcavity.

Thesis Advisors: Prof. Herbert Vinck Posada.

GPA: 4.5/5.0.

Best physics undergraduate award.

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Scientific Events

Conferences & Seminars

Items marked with correspond to talks, whereas those marked with correspond to poster contributions.

2019

• Watching Photons

TERAMETANANO-4: Terahertz Emission, Metamaterials and Nanophotonics.

Lecce, Italy.

• Quantum Spectroscopy Applied to Polaritons

Invited Seminar.

University of Southampton.

Southampton, United Kingdom.

• Exciting with Quantum Light: Quantum Spectroscopy

Invited Seminar.

University of Warsaw.

Warsaw, Poland.

2017

• Entangling one polariton with a photon: effect of interactions on a single-polariton quantum state

International Workshop on Physics of Exciton-Polaritons in Artificial Lattices.

Daejeon, South Korea.

• Criterion for Single Photon Sources

AOP 2017 - III International Conference on Applications in Optics and Photonics.

Faro, Portugal.

• Colorful Photons

Departamental Seminars.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Madrid, Spain.

2016

• Exciting with Quantum Light

International Workshop on Functional and Nanostructured Materials (FNM16).

Tbilisi, Georgia.

Invited Talk.

• Exciting Polaritons with Quantum Light

17^th International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures (PLMCN17).

Nara, Japan.

• Polaritons & Quantum Sources

Departamental Seminars.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Madrid, Spain.

2015

• Mollow Spectroscopy

Third International Conference on Quantum Technologies.

Moscow, Russia.

• Exciting Polaritons

Departamental Seminars.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Madrid, Spain.

• A new spectroscopic technique with quantum light

Polaflow Midterm Meeting.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Madrid, Spain.

2013

• Entanglement due to a beam splitter of two single-photon sources

1^st Workshop on Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals.

Armenia, Colombia.

• Preparation of a three-photon state in a semiconductor cavity

20^th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics 2013.

Stockholm, Sweden.

Awarded the IOP Prize for the Best Poster of the Conference.

2012

• Study of the temporal evolution of a Star-like quantum state of light through the Wigner function

Research in Optical Science Congress.

Berlin, Germany.

Schools

2016

• Nanotechnology meets Quantum Information.

Donostia International Physics Center.

San Sebastian, Spain.

2012

• Theoretical Physics.

Utrecht University

Utrecht, The Netherlands.

• Applications of Quantum Mechanics II.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Universidad de Guadalajara.

Cuernavaca, México.

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Teaching experience

2019/20

B.Sc. Physics — 1st Year — University of Wolverhampton

• Electromagnetism I: Tutorials

• Quantum Mechanics: Lectures

B.Sc. Physics — 2nd Year — University of Wolverhampton

• Solid State Physics: Lectures & Tutorials

• Electromagnetism II: Tutorials

2018/19

B.Sc. Physics — 1st Year — University of Wolverhampton

• Electromagnetism I: Lectures & Tutorials

• Quantum Mechanics: Tutorials

• Optics: Tutorials

B.Sc. Physics — 2nd Year — University of Wolverhampton

• Solid State Physics: Lectures & Tutorials

• Electromagnetism II: Tutorials

• Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics: Tutorials

• Quantum Physics: Tutorials

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Languages

1. Spanish: Native
2. English: Proficient (TOEFLiB 109/120, IELTS Band 8).
3. German: Advanced (B2 level).
4. Italian: Intermediate (B2 level).
5. French: Beginner (A1 level).
6. Polish: Beginner (A1 level).