Hi! My name is Elsa Prada and I'm a condensed matter theorist working on systems where quantum phenomena play an important role, such as low dimensional materials and nanostructures. As of July 2020 I belong to the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) as a tenured scientist.

Throughout my career my research has dealt with the following topics:

• Topology in electronic systems
  • Topological insulators
  • Topological superconductors
  • Majorana zero modes in nanostructures
• Graphene and other 2D crystals
  • Monolayers, multilayers, twisted bilayers, superlattices
  • Disorder
  • Magnetotransport, quantum Hall effect
  • Spintronics, pseudospintronics, valleytronics
  • Quantum pumping, out of equilibrium phenomena
  • Elastic deformations, folded nanoribbons, straintronics
  • Excitons, optoelectronics
• Electron and spin transport in mesoscopic systems
  • Hybrid nanostructures with superconductors, Josephson effect
  • Spintronics, spin-orbit interaction, spin relaxation
  • Current fluctuations and Full Counting Statistics
• Entanglement in condensed matter physics
  • Generation: non-local spin-entangled electron pairs from superconductors, other entanglers...
  • Evolution: in the presence of decoherence and spin-orbit interaction
  • Detection: by means of Bell inequalities, shot noise, concurrence

• From July 2020: Tenured scientist at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM) -CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
• Nov. 2012 - June 2020: Ramón y Cajal fellow: Tenure track position at the Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain. Department: Condensed Matter Physics.
• Medical leave: From September 2014 to February 2016.
• Nov. 2009 - Oct. 2012: Postdoctoral fellow at ICMM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, in the group led by Prof. Luis Brey.
• Sept. 2008 - Oct. 2009: Postdoctoral fellow at Lancaster University, UK, in the group led by Prof. Henning Schomerus.
• Maternity leave: From December 2007 to August 2008.
• 2006 - 2007: Postdoctoral fellow at Karlsruhe University in the group led by Prof. Gerd Schön.
• 2005 - 2006: Marie Curie Early State Researcher Felowship at Karlsruhe University, Germany. In April 2006 I obtained my PhD by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Here is a photo of the event with my advisor and the members of the board.
• Maternity leave: From September 2004 to February 2005.
• 2000 - 2004: PhD Student at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, under the supervision of Prof. Fernando Sols.
• 2000: Training position at Telefónica de España Corporation, Madrid.
• 1994 - 1999: Undergraduate studies in Physics by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain.