Curriculum vitae

         Personal data

Angel M. Uranga
Instituto de Física Teórica
c/ Nicolás Cabrera 13-15
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
28049 Madrid, Spain
Phone: 34 91 397 44 09
Fax: 34 91 397 85 57
Email: Angel.Uranga@uam.es
 

         Predoctoral Studies

Undergraduate:

Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao (Spain), October 1988-June 1991.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), October 1991-June 1993.
Graduate in Physics

Postgraduate Studies:

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), September 1993-September 1997.
      Supervisor: L. E. Ibáñez.

Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics:
     "New heterotic vacua in four dimensions with N=1 and N=2 supersymmetry", January 1997.

         Postdoctoral Positions

School of Natural Sciences,   Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton NJ, USA, October 1997 - September 1999.

Fellow at the  Theory Division   at   C. E. R. N. , Geneva, Switzerland, October 1999 - September 2001.

Postdoctoral Researcher `Ramón y Cajal' at the Departamento de Física Teórica, at the  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, October  2001-June 2002

Present position 2002- : Científico Titular at the Instituto de Física Teórica, which is part of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas .

On leave from January 2005- : Staff member at the PH-TH Division of C.E.R.N., Geneva.
 

         Research Grants

1992-1993  Research grant `Beca de colaboración del Gobierno Vasco'.

1993-1994 Postgraduate grant `Ayuda a estudiantes del Tercer Ciclo' of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

1994-1996 Research grant of the `Becas para formación de investigadores' program, Gobierno Vasco.

1997-1999 Postdoctoral Fellowship, by the Ramón Areces Foundation (Spain)

1999-2001 CERN Fellow, Theory Division.

 2001-2002     Research grant `Ramón y Cajal', appointment jointly financed by the Spanish Government (Ministerio Ciencia y
                      Tecnología) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

           Ph. D. Students

Juan Franciso García Cascales, PhD April 2005
Fouad Saad, initiated on October 2003
Inaki Garcia, initiated on October 2004

          List of Publications

It may be most conveniently obtained from the  Los Alamos archives  or the   SLAC Spires database

A brief description of my research interests can be found in this  link .
 

        Collaborators

I have enjoyed very pleasant collaborations with diverse researchers in the field. Here are some of them, with links to their homepages when available

Gerardo Aldazabal, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina.

Adi Armoni, Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Pablo González Cámara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Juan Franciso Garcia Cascales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA

Bo Feng, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

Anamaría Font, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Sebastián Franco,  Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA, USA

Hugo García-Compeán , CINVESTAV, México.

María Pilar García del Moral, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Amihay Hanany ,  Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA, USA

Yang-Hui He,  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA

Luis E. Ibáñez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Andreas Karch, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Oscar Loaiza-Brito, CINVESTAV, México.

Esperanza Lopez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Jaemo Park,  POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

Fernando Quevedo, DAMTP, Cambridge University

Raul Rabadan, Theory Division, C. E. R. N, Geneva, Switzerland

Gary Shiu,  University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Matt Strassler , University of Washington, Seattle, USA
 
 
 

      Invited talks at international workshops
 

• `The construction of GUTs from strings' at the Flavourdynamics Networkshop, Warsaw (Poland), April 1995.

 
• `New heterotic branches of string compactification and their F-theory duals', II UAM String Workshop, Madrid (Spain),   December 1996.

 
• `Mass deformed $N=4$ theories from brane configurations', III UAM Christmas Workshop, Madrid (Spain), December 1997.

 
• `Brane configurations and Branes at singularities', IV UAM Christmas Workshop, Madrid (Spain), December 1998.

 
• `Anomalous U(1)s in D=4 N=1 type I string vacua', Planck 99 Conference, Bad Honnef (Germany) April 99.

 
• `Anomaly cancellation for branes at singularities', Workshop on High Energy Physics, Philadelphia (USA), May 99.

 
• `Tachyon-free Non-supersymmetric Type I vacua from brane-antibrane systems', V Christmas Workshop, Madrid (Spain), December 1999

 
• `From quiver diagrams to particle physics', Third European Congress of Mathematics, Univ. Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain), July 2000

 
• `From branes at singularities to particle physics', IX Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Univ. Rome `La Sapienza', Rome (Italy), July 2000.

 
• `From branes at singularities to particle physics', Euroconference Quantum fields and Strings, Crete (Greece), September 2000.

 
• `D-brane probes, RR tadpole cancellation and K-theory charge', VI Christmas Workshop, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, December 2000.

 
• `Realistic brane worlds from string theory', Network workshop Physics in extra dimensions, Warsaw (Poland), February 2001.

 
• `D-brane model building', International meeting `Physics in the Pyrenees: Strings, Branes and Field Theory', Benasque, Spain, July 2001.

 
• `Intersecting brane worlds',  seminar at the Planck 2002 meeting, Kazimierz, Poland, May 2002.

 
• `D-branes, fluxes and Wess-Zumino terms',  parallel session seminar at SUSY 2002, Hamburg, June 2002

 
• `Local models for intersecting brane worlds', seminar at the 35th Ahrenshoop meeting, Berlin, August 2002

 
• `Chiral 4d compactifications with intersecting D-branes', TMR network meeting, Leuven,September 2002

 
• Overview of intersecting D-brane worlds in string theory, plenary talk at X Marcel Grossman conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July 2003.

 
• Aspects of Intersecting Brane Worlds, Theory Workshop, Hamburg, September 2003

 
• Overview of D-brane phenomenological model building, String theory Workshop, Bad Honnef, Alemania,  March 2004

 
• Flux compactifications and phenomenological applications, plenary session talk, SUSY 2004, Japan, June 2004

 
• Model building in Flux compactifications, Strings 2004, Paris, June 2004.

 
• Dual views on branes at singularities, String Vacuum Project Workshop, Munich, Alemania, November 2004

 
• Flux supersymmetry breaking in MSSM string compactifications, EuroGDR Meeting, Frascati, Italia, Noviembre 2004.

          Invited seminars and lectures
 

• `Brane boxes and branes at singularities', seminar at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA, November 1998.

 
• `U(1) anomaly cancellation in type I orbifold vacua', seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA,        November 1998.

 
• `Brane configurations and branes at singularities', seminar at Duke University, Durham NC, USA, February 1999.

 
• `Orientifolding the conifold', seminar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston MA, USA, May 1999.

 
• `Non-supersymmetric tachyon-free type I orbifold vacua from brane-antibrane systems', seminar at the TH Division, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), October 1999.

 
• `Introduction to Type I string theory orbifold vacua', lectures delivered at the DAMTP, Cambridge University (UK), March 2000.

 
• `Non-supersymmetric tachyon-free type IIB orientifold vacua from brane-antibrane systems', seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA, April 2000.

 
• `From D-branes at singularities to particle physics' , seminar at the TH Division, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), May 2000.

 
• `From D-branes at singularities to particle physics', seminar at the Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche (Argentina), August 2000.

 
• `Type IIB orientifolds and non-BPS D-branes', seminar at the IFT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain),     September 2000.

 
• `From D-branes at singularities to particle physics', seminar at the Instituto de Altas Energías, Universidad Autónoma de   Barcelona (Spain), October 2000.

 
• `Realistic brane-worlds from string theory', seminar at the Universite de Geneve, Geneva (Switzerland), November 2000.

 
• `Introduction to D-branes at singularities', lectures delivered at the Departamento de Física Teírica, Universidad Central de Barcelona (Spain), January 2001.

 
• `D-brane probes, RR tadpole cancellation and K-theory charge', seminar at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (I.C.T.P), Trieste (Italy), February 2001.

 
• `Realistic brane-worlds from string theory', seminar at the Theory Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,   Berkeley CA, USA, March 2001.

 
• `D=4 chiral string compactifications from intersecting branes', seminar at the Theoretical Physics Department, Bonn           University, Bonn (Germany), April 2001.

 
• `D-brane probes, RR tadpole cancellation and K-theory charge', seminar at the Theory Group, Neuchatel Univsersity, Neuchatel (Switzerland), May 2001.

 
• `D-brane probes, RR tadpole cancellation and K-theory charge', seminar at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Tecnology, Boston (USA), May 2001.

 
• `D-brane model building', lectures delivered at the Theory Group, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 2001.

 
• `Overview of string and D-brane phenomenology', seminar at the Departamento de Física Teórica of the Universidad de Oviedo, November 2001.

 
• `Fun with intersecting D-branes', seminar at Stanford University and SLAC, June 2002

 
• `D-brane models', 3 hour course at Saclay, October 2002

 
• `Intersecting brane-worlds and the standard model', seminar at Univ. Rome `Tor Vergata', November 2002.

 
• `Overview of intersecting brane worlds', seminar at Universidad de Granada, April 2003.

 
• `Overview of D-brane worlds in string theory, seminario en el IMAFF, CSIC, Madrid, Mayo 2003.

 
• `Chiral 4d compactification with NSNS and RR fluxes', seminar at Univ. Hamburg, June 2003.

 
• `Chiral 4d string models with D-branes and NSNS and RR fluxes', seminar at the CERN TH Division, July 2003.

 
• `Chiral 4d string models with D-branes and NSNS and RR fluxes', seminar at UPenn, September 2003.

 
• `Chiral 4d string models with D-branes and NSNS and RR fluxes', seminar at DAMTP, Cambridge Univ, October 2003.

 
• `Overview of D-brane model building', seminar at Univ. of Sussex, UK, March 2004

 
• `Soft terms on D-branes from flux supersymmetry breaking', seminar at Queen Mary College, Univ. of London, UK,   April 2004

 
• `Soft terms on D-branes from flux supersymmetry breaking', seminar at Stanford Univ, May 2004

 
• `Soft terms on D-branes from flux supersymmetry breaking',seminar at Univ. Roma "La Sapienza", May 2004.

 
• `Warped throats and cascading gauge theories', seminar at Imperial College, London, March 2005.

 
• `Warped throats and cascading gauge theories', seminar at the TH Division, CERN, April 2005.