Gonzalo Alvarez-Perez earned dual BSc degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2017. He went on to complete two Master’s degrees: an MSc in Nanoscience from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2018, and an MSc in Big Data Analytics from Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) that same year.
In 2024, he completed his PhD in Nanoscience and Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Oviedo with cum laude distinction. His research, carried out in the Quantum Nano-optics Group under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Alonso-González and Dr. Alexey Nikitin, focused on light-matter interactions in strongly anisotropic 2D materials—more specifically, hyperbolic phonon polaritons. In January 2025, his work was recognized with the Best Experimental Thesis Award by the Condensed Matter Division of the Spanish Royal Physical Society.
During his PhD, Gonzalo was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to carry out a ten-month predoctoral research stay at Columbia University, working in the Infrared Research Lab of Prof. Dmitri Basov in New York. In 2023, he also completed a four-month research stay at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, working with Dr. Alexander Paarmann in the Lattice Dynamics Group.
Currently, he is a PostDoc at the Computational Nanoplasmonics Group at the IIT, where he studies nonlinear and nonlocal effects in plasmonic systems—specifically in heavily doped semiconductors—within the framework of the EIC NEHO project, under the supervision of Dr. Cristian Ciracì.
Gonzalo has published around 30 works on international peer-reviewed journals and given over 30 presentations in international conferences. He has also recently been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project Q-MIND (Quantum Materials for Integrated Nanoscale Neuromorphic Computing Devices), which will begin in January 2026.
