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About myself: I graduated in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where I also carried out a master´s degree in Fundamental Physics. At present, I work at the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia of CSIC (Madrid, Spain) with a pre-doctoral contract. I am doing my thesis under the supervision of doctors Guillermo A. Mena Marugán and Luis J. Garay Elizondo. My current research mainly consists in the extension of Loop Quantum Cosmology to inhomogeneous cosmological models. More explicitly, I have accomplished a hybrid quantization of a Gowdy cosmology by combining standard Fock quantization with polymeric quantization. My general interests lie in the development of Loop Quantum Gravity and Loop Quantum Cosmology, and the fields of research that these theories involve, such as Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity, quantization of constrained systems, standard quantum field theory, algebraic quantization or functional analysis.
Keywords: Loop Quantum Gravity, Loop Quantum Cosmology, quantum field theory.
Education:
Thesis: Quantización del modelo de Gowdy T3 con polarización lineal
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). September,
2007
Advisors: Guillermo A. Mena Marugán and Luis J. Garay Elizondo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). From 10/2001 to
06/2006
Publications:
Authors: Mercedes Martín-Benito, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán, and J. Olmedo.
Title: Further Improvements in the Understanding of Isotropic Loop Quantum Cosmology
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 80, 104015 (2009).Authors: Mercedes Martín-Benito, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán, and T. Pawlowski.
Title: Physical evolution in a Loop Quantum Cosmology: The Example of vacuum Bianchi I
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 80, 084038 (2009).Authors: Guillermo A. Mena Marugán and Mercedes Martín-Benito.
Title: Hybrid Quantum Cosmology: Combining Loop and Fock Quantizations
Journal: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 24, 2820 (2009).Authors: Mercedes Martín-Benito, Luis J. Garay and Guillermo A. Mena Marugán
Title: Hybrid Quantum Gowdy Cosmology: Combining Loop and Fock Quantizations
Journal: Physical Review D 78, 083516 (2008).Authors: Mercedes Martín-Benito, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán and Tomasz Pawlowski
Title: Loop Quantization of Vacuum Bianchi I Cosmology
Journal: Physical Review D 78, 064008 (2008).
Seminars and Talks:
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Title: Physical Evolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology.
Type: Seminar.
Place and date: Albert Einstein Institute, Postdam (Germany), July 2009. -
Title: Further Improvements in our Understanding of Isotropic Loop Quantum Cosmology.
Type: International Conference on Quantum Gravity "Loops '09".
Place and date: Beijing (China), August 2009. -
Title: Loop Quantum Cosmology and Inhomogeneities: The Gowdy Model.
Type: XVII Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics.
Place and date: Porto (Portugal), July 10, 2008. -
Title: Hybrid Quantum Cosmology: Combinig Loop and Fock Quantizations in the Gowdy Model.
Type: QG2 2008 Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity Conference
Place and date: Nottingham (UK), July 3, 2008. -
Title: Hybrid quantization of the linearly polarized Gowdy T3 model.
Type: Workshop on Quantum Gravity Models.
Place and date: San José (Almería, Spain), October, 2007.
