Javier Rodríguez-Laguna's Page
Bio & CV

Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) at the Departamento de Física Fundamental, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid.

I grew up in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), and studied Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Germán Sierra and Miguel Ángel Martín-Delgado supervised my Ph.D. thesis in theoretical physics on the renormalization group, while I worked as a secondary school teacher. Afterwards, I have worked at SISSA (Trieste), UC3M (Madrid), ICFO (Barcelona) and several CSIC institutes (Madrid).

Contact me: jrlaguna AT fisfun.uned.es - ORCID - Google Scholar - Publons - GitHub - CV

Main collaborations

Member of the Quantum & Statistical Mechanics group at UNED, along with Eva M. Fernández (coordinator), José Enrique Alvarellos, Julio Fernández, Pedro Córdoba and Elka Korutcheva.

Local PI of SONATA (UC3M-UNED), along with Rodolfo Cuerno, Silvia N. Santalla (both PI at UC3M), Alfredo Deaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez, Iván Álvarez Domenech and Daniel Villarrubia.

Visiting researcher at Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT-UAM/CSIC), in the group of Germán Sierra, along with Sudipto Singha Roy (IIT, Dhanbad) and Nadir Samos (Lisbon).

Research Lines
I work on quantum and classical complex systems, specially the universal properties which emerge from strongly correlated fluctuations. My field lies at the intersection between Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Technologies.
  • The entanglement structure of quantum complex systems can bring many surprises, specially when they give rise to long-range correlations, such as the rainbow model.
  • We have developed the concept of entanglement links in order to read the emergent geometry from entanglement.
  • Quantum matter on curved space-times can be very challenging. We have considered phase transitions and the Casimir effect on deformed metrics.
  • We are interested in the geodesic structure on random manifolds and its relation to the known universality classes, such as Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) or percolation.
  • Also, we apply what we know about emergence in physics to biology and social science, such as in the characterization of bacterial clusters, income inequality or urban segregation.
  • Currently, we consider atomic clusters as complex systems, applying machine learning techniques to describe their structures. We are specially interested in their applications for hydrogen storage.
Docencia

Coordinador del Grado en Física de la UNED.

Imparto clases en los grados de Física y Química, así como en el Máster en Física Avanzada.

Asignaturas de Grado: Fundamentos de Física I y II, Mecánica Cuántica, Física del Estado Sólido.

Asignaturas de Máster: Fenómenos Colectivos Cuánticos, Crecimiento Fuera del Equilibrio, Información y Computación Cuántica.

Supervisión de Trabajos de Fin de Grado y de Máster.

Una serie de consejos a la hora de escribir un texto científico.

Divulgación

Artículo ¿Cuánto pesa mi sombra? con Celia González, para The Conversation.

Vídeos divulgativos en el Canal IFT: Entropía, y Entropía y Vida.

Charlas en el Ateneo de Madrid sobre física. Del gato (de) Schrödinger a los computadores cuánticos (Nov. 2020), De Planilandia a los aguejeros negros (Abr. 2021).

Soy miembro del equipo del Blog Hablando de Física @UNED.

Miscellanea

This webpage alternates between Spanish and English, depending on the intended audience.

Last Update: October 2025.