Silvia Noemí Santalla Arribas
Professor Silvia Noemí Santalla Arribas
Graduate in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1998, specialized in Fundamental Physics, with a Master Thesis at the Theoretical Physics Department on the statistical physics of the quark-gluon plasma. In 2000 she entered the Physics Department of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) as a teaching assistant, starting her Ph.D. on heterostructures under the supervision of Prof. Rosa María de la Cruz. She obtained her Ph.D. from UCM in the doctoral programme of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics in 2008. Since 2009 she has been Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of UC3M. She is also Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT, UAM-CSIC).
Currently, she is a researcher at the intersection between statistical physics, biophysics and quantum technologies. In statisical physics, her main line of research is the characterization of geodesics and isochrones in random metrics, such as real maps, using both analytical and numerical tools, in collaboration with researchers from UC3M and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. In the area of biophysics, her work is focused on the determination of the universality classes of interfaces of bacterial colonias and cell aggregates, in collaboration with UAM and Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil). Her work in quantum technologies considers entanglement in quantum systems with disorder or special topological properties, with applications in metrology and quantum computation, and towards the development of a quantum geometry, in collaboration with researchers from IFT (UAM-CSIC) and the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste, Italia).
She has taught at the Physics Department of UC3M for twenty years in a large variety of degrees. She has acted as coordinator for the teaching laboratories for nearly ten years and for different subjects, for example "Women in Science". She has supervised several bachelor and master thesis, and is currently supervising two Ph.D. students.