I studied Physics at the University of Salamanca, where I found my way into phenomenology — the part of the field where a theoretical idea has to survive contact with a real astrophysical object. That took me to the Master's in Physics of the Universe at the University of Zaragoza and to CAPA, one of the strongest dark matter groups in Spain.

At Zaragoza the IAXO group hired me to build analysis and database tools for the collaboration. In parallel I started working on X-ray astronomy with NuSTAR, Swift and Chandra data, asking a simple question: if axions are produced inside stars, what would we already have seen?

Since September 2024 I am a PhD student at TU Dortmund, in a joint doctorate with Zaragoza, working on X-ray telescope technology for light dark matter searches — from modelling axion emission in supergiants and stripped-envelope supernovae to the glass optics that would focus a solar axion signal in IAXO.

Outside of research I ran the social media of CAPA and still enjoy explaining this work to people who have no reason to care about axions yet — see Outreach.