Julio Parra-Martinez, physicist

Permanent Professor since 2024

Julio Parra-Martinez is a theoretical physicist working on many topics, including quantum field theory, scattering amplitudes, gravitation, effective field theories and string theory.

In recent years he has focused on importing techniques from particle physics to the realm of classical general relativity. These techniques, which were originally developed to compute the quantum probabilities of scattering events at particle colliders, have found surprising applications to gravitational-wave and black-hole physics.

Originally from Spain, Julio Parra-Martinez did his undergraduate at the University of Valencia, and his graduate studies in the UK and USA, obtaining a MASt in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2015, and a PhD in Physics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2020. After getting his PhD, he spent three years as a Sherman Fairchild Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and one year as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, before he joined IHES in 2024.

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