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Biographical Info
- 2018-2019. Visiting Associate Professor at MIT / Fulbright Scholar.
- 2016-Associate Professor at UAM.
- 2010-2016 Ramon y Cajal Fellow at UAM.
- 2007-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.
- 2006 PhD in Physics from UAM.
- 2001 Physics degree from UAM.
Honors and Awards
- TR35 Award of MIT Technology Review: one of top 10 Spanish innovators under the age of 35 (2013).
Research Interests
- Nanophotonics.
- Plasmonics.
- Metamaterials.
Relevant/Recent Publications
- Intermittent chaos for an ergodic light trapping in a photonic fiber plate, M. Mariano, G. Kozyreff, L.G. Gerling, P. Romero-Gomez, J. Puigdollers, J. Bravo-Abad and J. Martorell, Light: Science and Applications (Nature Group) 5, e16216 (2016).
- Plasmon-assisted Nd3+ based solid-state nanolaser, P. Molina, E. Yraola, M.O. Ramirez, C. Tserkezis, J.L. Plaza, J. Aizpurua, J. Bravo-Abad, and L.E. Bausa, Nano Letters 16, 895 (2016).
- Disorder sets light straight, J. Bravo-Abad, Nature Physics (News & Views) 11, 213 (2015).
- Weyl points in photonic-crystal superlattices, J. Bravo-Abad, L. Lu, L. Fu, H. Buljan, and M. Soljacic, 2D Materials 2, 034013 (2015).
- Quantum emitters near a metal nanoparticle: strong coupling and quenching, A. Delga, J. Feist, J. Bravo-Abad, and F.J. Garcia-Vidal, Physical Review Letters 112, 253601 (2014).
- Second-harmonic generation using 4-quasi-phasematching in a GaAs whispering-gallery-mode microcavity, P.S. Kuo, J. Bravo-Abad, and G.S. Solomon, Nature Communications 5, 3109 (2014).
- Enabling single-mode behavior over large areas with photonic Dirac cones, J. Bravo-Abad, J. D. Joannopoulos and M. Soljacic, PNAS 109, 9761 (2012).
- Controlling terahertz radiation with nanoscale metal barriers embedded in nano slot antennas, H. R. Park, Y. M. Bahk, K. J. Ahn, Q. H. Park, D. S. Kim, L. Martin-Moreno, F.J. Garcia-Vidal, and J. Bravo-Abad, ACS Nano 5, 8340 (2011).
- Theory of extraordinary transmission of light through quasiperiodic arrays of subwavelength holes, J. Bravo-Abad, A.I. Fernandez-Dominguez, F.J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno, Physical Review Letters 99, 203905 (2007).
- How light emerges from an illuminated array of subwavelength holes, J. Bravo-Abad, A. Degiron, F. Przybilla, C. Genet, F.J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno, and T.W. Ebbesen, Nature Physics 2, 120 (2006).