Research Division Seminar
Detecting GWs in the muHz: natural and artificial satellites as GW detectors

Diego Blas was born in Burgos (Spain) and spent his early years in the picturesque village of Benasque. He graduated in Physics from the University of Zaragoza (2002) and then moved to the Universitat de Barcelona to pursue his doctorate. During his thesis, he focused on alternatives to General Relativity in an attempt to address the cosmological constant problem. In 2008, he moved to EPFL, Switzerland, where he worked on the development of theories of quantum gravity without Lorentz invariance and CLASS, a widely used computer code in modern cosmology. After a few months at New York University, Diego Blas moved to CERN in 2012, first as a senior member and in 2014 as a staff member. During this period, he expanded his research into analytical methods for large-scale structures and new ideas for testing dark matter models in astrophysics and precise (quantum) devices. In 2018, he joined King's College London as a Senior Lecturer and in 2021, he joined the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the IFAE as a Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Researcher. He was appointed Professor of Research in the prestigious ICREA program in 2023.