Pablo Estevez Alonso

Pablo Estevez Alonso, a predoctoral researcher at the Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM), has been awarded a Santander Open Academy mobility grant aimed at staff of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) through the CSIC General Foundation.

Estévez Alonso, who is working on his doctoral thesis with ICMM researchers Dooshaye Moonshiram and Antonio Picón, will spend three months in Denmark working with Professor Sonia Coriani, "one of the leading figures in quantum chemistry today," explains the young researcher.

The grant was awarded under the collaboration agreement between the CSIC General Foundation (FGCSIC) and the Banco Santander Foundation, and is aimed at promoting programs that support research, entrepreneurship, and the training of researchers. Only 40 grants of €2,000 each have been awarded, intended to foster the development of predoctoral researchers through research stays.

This young researcher's work focuses on developing various theoretical methods to reproduce ultrafast experiments. "Phenomena such as photosynthesis, vision, and even bioprotection against radiation in living beings cannot be understood without these phenomena that occur in tens of femtoseconds (one quadrillionth of a second)," explains Estévez Alonso, who details that his work uses theoretical methods as tools distributed in different software packages.

"What I'm going to do with Coriani is learn to use some methods developed by his group, which are distributed as a calculation software called DALTON, in order to participate in some of the active projects and contribute to programming in DALTON," he explains.

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