Dr. Calero earned his Ph.D. in Physics at the City University of New York (CUNY, USA) under the supervision of Dist. Prof. E. M. Chudnovsky. He held post-doctoral appointments at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (was awarded a JAE-doc fellowship) and at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). In 2013 he was awarded a Beatriu de Pinós- Marie Curie fellowship to work for two years in the group of Dist. Prof. H. E. Stanley at Boston University (BU). He was hired by the Condensed Matter Physics Department at the University of Barcelona (UB) through an EU FET-Open project, where he became a Lecturer in 2019.
His main research line addresses the theoretical description of colloidal systems, focusing on the dynamics of aggregation of colloids and the interfacial phenomena which determine the stability conditions of colloidal suspensions. For his research, the candidate employs tools based on statistical mechanics and a range of computer simulation techniques. His research has an interdisciplinary character, with publications in physics, materials science, physical chemistry and biophysics journals.
The candidate has published over 45 works in international peer-reviewed journals, including several articles in high impact journals such as Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, or Nanoscale. His works have been cited 674 (Scopus) / 904 (Google Scholar) times and he has an h-index of 16 (Scopus) / 19 (Google Scholar). He consistently presents his research at international conferences (27 contributions, 2 invited and 15 oral talks). He is co-author of the registered simulation code MagChain®, used by companies (SEPMAG technologies®) and other research groups.
To pursue his research he was awarded a funded research project of a competitive call (reference AR0RM002, amount: 8000¿), of which he was Principal Investigator (team of four researchers); in addition, he was awarded the competitive fellowships JAE-doc (CSIC), Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie and was also selected as the primary candidate to work in the FETOpen EU project ABIOMATER. He has participated in numerous funded research projects (13), including European, American, and Spanish projects. He obtained computational resources in six different project-based competitive calls at the Red Española de Supercomputación (for a combined amount of ~2milion hours).
He established a wide network of research collaborations (published with 10 different groups). In addition to his research experience in the USA (6 years) he has current international collaboration with 4 groups (Ames Lab, Oxford, Exeter, Princeton). He co-directed 1 Ph. D. thesis (UPC), and directed 3 master's thesis (UB), 13 degree theses (UPC, BU, and UB), and 10 students in developing programs for science popularization. He has teaching experience at the University of Barcelona, City Universtiy of New York and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is co-author of a graduate level book on magnetism.
He is certified as a lecturer and associate professor (AQU). The candidate is also committed to the dissemination of science: he has co-supervised 10 students in a program for the development of computer programs for the popularization of physics concepts. He has also given talks to popularize physical concepts in secondary education schools and in local cultural societies. He is referee in top journals, including Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and E, or the Journal of Chemical Physics.
