Miguel Zumalacárregui

Curriculum vitae

CV

Positions, education, scientific coordination, teaching and service. The publication record lives on INSPIRE-HEP, and the people I have supervised are on the Group page.

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Positions

  • Ramón y Cajal Fellow Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid · 2026–
  • Group Leader, Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam · 2020–
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, with return phase at IPhT Saclay · 2017–2020
  • Nordita Fellow Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm · 2015–2017
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Institut für Theoretische Physik, University of Heidelberg · 2013–2015
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid · 2013

Education

Scientific coordination

  • LISA Consortium member since 2018 Council member and Senior Co-Chair of the Cosmology Working Group (2025–); section coordinator for gravitational-wave lensing in the LISA Cosmology white paper (2022)
  • Euclid Consortium member since 2014 Co-lead of the Science Working Group on Gravitational Waves and of its “bright sirens” work package (2025–); member of the Strong Lensing, Cosmology Theory, and Supernovae & Transients working groups
  • GW-Space 2050 Coordinator for the cosmography section, defining ESA's gravitational-wave missions after LISA (2023–)
  • Multi-messenger lensing white paper Coordinator for the microlensing section (2024)

Workshops and meetings organized

Teaching

Graduate schools

  • Gravitational waves, TAE (Taller de Altas Energías), Benasque, 2024 Slides
  • Tests of gravity and dark energy with cosmology and gravitational waves II Mesoamerican Workshop on Gravity and Cosmology, Chiapas, 2018
  • Alternative gravity theories, Cosmology School in the Canary Islands, 2017 Video lecture
  • School for Cosmology Tools, IFT Madrid, 2017 Lectures on CLASS, hi_class and MontePython; material on theTalks & Teaching page
  • Workshop on CLASS and MontePython, MPIA Munich, 2014

University courses

  • Berkeley Connect Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2018–2019 Two semesters of undergraduate mentoring and teaching
  • Lecturer, University of Heidelberg, 2014–2015 Advanced Cosmology; Introduction to CMB Physics; Statistical Mechanics; advanced seminar
  • Teaching assistant, University of Heidelberg, 2014–2015 Theoretical Astrophysics (graduate), with M. Bartelmann
  • Teaching assistant, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2013 Gravitation and Cosmology; Physics of the Cosmos
  • Mini-course on inhomogeneous cosmologies, University of Barcelona, 2012

Awards and fellowships

  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2025): GLOW, Gravitational Lensing of Waves.
  • Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (2024 call, awarded 2025).
  • Max Planck Society Annual Project (2024): With Einstein on Crooked Paths.
  • R3 certification, Spanish Research Agency.
  • Berkeley Connect Fellow, UC Berkeley (2018).
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (2015).
  • Nordita Fellowship (2015).
  • Yggdrasil Fellowship (2011): research stay at ITA Oslo.
  • FPI doctoral fellowship (2008) and UAM Master's scholarship (2007).

Funding awards are listed on the Projects & Funding page.

Evaluation and peer review

Evaluation panels

  • NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, Physics and Cosmology panel.
  • FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), Individual Support Call.
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, postdoctoral hiring committee, since 2020.

External evaluator for funding agencies

European Research Council (Starting Grants), STFC/UKRI, Swiss National Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, InterTalentum (Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND), Netherlands Research Council (NWO), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the Estonian Research Council.

Refereeing

Peer review for more than 40 papers, including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Nature Astronomy, JCAP, The Astrophysical Journal and Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Selected talks

  • IAS and Princeton University, gravitational-wave meeting, Princeton, 2026 · seminar GW231123 as a diffracted and magnified black-hole merger
  • Spanish & Portuguese Relativity Meeting, Universidad de Murcia, 2026 · plenary Gravitational lensing of waves: a new window into astrophysics, dark matter and gravity
  • Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam, 2024 · institute colloquium Gravitational lensing of waves
  • New Frontiers in Strong Gravity, Benasque, 2024 · plenary Wave-optical phenomena in gravitational-wave lensing
  • Workshop on Tensions in Cosmology, Corfu, 2022 · plenary Towards solutions to the Hubble problem beyond Einstein's gravity
  • EuCAPT Annual Symposium, CERN, 2022 · plenary review Dark energy and tests of gravity with cosmology and gravitational-wave propagation
  • Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, 2021 · institute colloquium The dark Universe in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy
  • Progress in Old and New Themes in Cosmology, Palais des Papes, Avignon, 2020 · plenary Tests of gravity with gravitational waves
  • COSMO, Aachen University, 2019 · plenary Tests of dark energy and modified gravity
  • Rencontres du Vietnam, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, 2018 · plenary The dark Universe in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy

Recorded talks and public lectures are on the Talks and Outreach pages.

Languages

Spanish (native), English (C2), German (C1).

Selected publications

Ten papers, chosen for what they opened up rather than for where they appeared. The complete record is on INSPIRE-HEP, and the papers behind each part of the program are on the Research page.