Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastián, as well as co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Multiverse Computing, the world's leading quantum AI software company. PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2006, with the first PhD thesis on quantum algorithms in Spain. Postdoc at the University of Queensland in Australia and at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, as well as professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. He was also a visiting professor at Université Paul Sabatier – CNRS in France and at DIPC. Throughout his career he has worked alongside pioneers such as Cirac, Vidal, Latorre, and others.

Recipient of a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, the 2014 Early Career Prize from the European Physical Society, and the 2024 Physics, Innovation and Technology Award from the Royal Spanish Society of Physics. Known for key and foundational contributions to the fields of complex quantum systems, applied quantum computing, and quantum artificial intelligence. Author of a large number of widely cited scientific papers and patents on quantum technology.