Cristina Manuel

Cristina Manuel Hidalgo

Theoretical Physicist

Scientific Researcher, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC). Nuclear and Multi-messenger Astrophysics and Gravitational Wave Astronomy.

[email protected] · Languages: English (Fluent), French (Proficient), Spanish (Native)

ORCID 0000-0002-0024-3366 · INSPIRE C.Manuel.1

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Education

Ph.D. in Physics

1993

Universitat de Barcelona

B.Sc. in Physics

1990

Universitat de Barcelona

Academic appointments

Scientific Researcher

2007 — Present

CSIC, Institute of Space Sciences

Tenured Scientist

2002 — 2007

CSIC (ICE & IFIC)

Marie Curie and CERN Fellow

1998 — 2002

CERN

Postdoctoral Contract

1996 — 1998

Universitat de Barcelona

Postdoctoral Fellow

1994 — 1995

MIT, USA

Research leadership & metrics

  • Impact: Accumulated over 3,500 citations with an h-index of 32 on Inspire (2,659 citations, h-index of 28 on WOS) across 102 publications.
  • Grants & Projects: Principal Investigator for 4 national research projects and 3 special actions, and one of six guarantors for the €2,000,000 Maria de Maeztu Excellence Mention awarded to ICE.
  • Collaborations: Participated in 14 national, 6 regional, and 4 European COST action projects.

The complete list, refreshed monthly from INSPIRE-HEP, is on the publications page.

Academic service & committees

  • Editorial: Served as Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters (Effective Field Theories and Nuclear Physics) during the 2019–2021 and 2022–2024 periods.
  • Evaluation: Grant evaluator for ERC Starting Grants, ANEP (Spain), DFG (Germany), and NSF (Poland), as well as selection committees for Ramón y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva contracts.
  • Conferences: Chairperson and principal organizer for international conferences including “Strong and Electroweak Matter 2018” and “Compact Stars and the QCD Phase Diagram 2026”.
  • Advocacy: Contributed to the Parliament of Catalonia’s “Women, Science, and Technology” working group and the Parity Commission for the IEEC Equality Plan in 2015.

Supervision & teaching

  • Mentorship: Supervised 7 postdoctoral researchers, 2 Ph.D. theses, and 6 Master’s theses.
  • Instruction: Lecturer for the Master in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (IFAE-ICE-UAB) and invited instructor at international physics schools in Korea, Brazil, and Spain.