Juan CALDERON BUSTILLO
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Education:
- 2006-2011: Licenciate in Physics (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- 2011-2012: Masters of Advanced Study in Mathematics (University of Cambridge)
- 2012-2015: Ph.D in Physics (University of the Balearic Islands)
Position:
- 2020-now: Marie Curie Fellow & La Caixa Junior Leader, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- 2020-now: Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2020-2020: Research Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2018-2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University
- 2016-2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests:
- Gravitational-wave Astronomy
- Gravitational-wave searches
- Black Hole Spectroscopy
- Tests of General Relativity
- Cosmology with binary neutron stars
Honours and Awards
- 2021 - Research Grant, Spanish Ministry of Science
- 2020 - GRF Grant (declined)
- 2019 - Best oral presentation. Monash Symposium for Early Career Researchers (2000 AUD)
- 2018 - Global Talent Fellowship. University of Santiago de Compostela (~350k€, declined)
- 2017 - Princesa de Asturias prize in science (Co-recipient as a member of the LIGO LSC)
- 2016 - Best talk. Meeting for young researches in foreign countries, Fundacion Barrie de la Maza (200€)
- 2016 - Gravitational Wave International Committee Thesis Prize: Honorific Mention
- 2016 - Special breakthrough prize in fundamental physics (Co-recipient as a member of the LIGO LSC) ($2000)
- 2015 - FPI Travel Grant, Spanish Government (€3500)
- 2014 - Max-Planck Prince of Asturias Mobility Award (€5,008)
- 2013 - LIGO Student poster prize, LIGO Scientific Collaboration ($150)
- 2013 - FPI Travel Grant, Spanish Government (€3500)
- 2011 - FPI Grant for Graduate studies, Spanish Government (€52.800 net)
- 2010 - Grant for Collaboration with University Departments for academically excellent students (3.000€)
Selected Recent Publications:
- 2021: Calderon-Bustillo et. al., "GW190521 as a merger of Proca stars: A potential 8.7x10^-13 vector boson", Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081101
- 2021: Calderon-Bustillo, Sanchis-Gual, Torres-Forne & Font, "Confusing Head-On Collisions with Precessing Intermediate-Mass Binary Black Hole Mergers", Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 201101
- 2021: Calderon-Bustillo, Leong, Dietrich & Lasky, "Mapping the Universe Expansion: Enabling percent-level measurements of the Hubble Constant with a single binary neutron-star merger detection", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 912, Number 1
- 2019: Calderon Bustillo, Evans, Clark, Kim, Laguna and Shoemaker, "Post-merger chirps from binary black holes as probes of the final black-hole horizon", Communications Physics volume 3, Article number: 176"
- 2019: Ferguson, Ghonge, Clark Calderon Bustillo et. al., "Measuring Spin of the Remnant Black Hole from Maximum Amplitude", Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151101
- 2019: Abbott et al., "Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network", Phys. Rev. D 100, 064064
- 2018: Juan Calderón Bustillo, James A. Clark, Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker, "Tracking black hole kicks from gravitational-wave observations", Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 191102
- 2018: Ian Harry, Juan Calderón Bustillo and Alex Nitz, "Searching for the full symphony of black hole binary mergers", Phys. Rev. D 97, 023004
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