L. Arturo Ureña-López
Titular Professor B

(IFUG, 2003-)

Ph.D., Departamento de Física, Cinvestav, Mexico, 2001
Research Specialty: Cosmology; inflation, dark matter, dark energy

CV in extenso (Spanish) (English)

I am currently interested in the phenomenology of inflation, dark matter and dark energy, three central actors in modern Cosmology. Most of my work focuses in the use of scalar field models for the three aforementioned Cosmology topics. Recent particular interests are: a) Unification of inflation, dark matter and dark energy under a single field; b) Properties of scalar fields as dark matter; c) Dynamics of general dark energy models; d) Gravitational collapse of scalar fields using Numerical Relativity tools.

Some of my work is being done in collaboration with Dr. Tonatiuh Matos (Departamento de Física, Cinvestav, Mexico), Dr. Francisco Guzmán (Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, UMSNH, Mexico), Prof. Andrew Liddle (Sussex Astronomy Centre, UK) and Prof. Roy Maartens (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK).

Last update: 04/03/08

Recent Publications:

[1] L. A. Urena-Lopez and M. J. Reyes-Ibarra, ``On the dynamics of a quadratic scalar field potential,'' 0709.3996.

[2] T. Matos and L. A. Urena-Lopez, ``Flat rotation curves in scalar field galaxy halos,'' Gen. Rel. Grav. 39 (2007) 1279-1286.

[3] D. Delepine, C. Martinez, and L. A. Urena-Lopez, ``Complex Hybrid Inflation and Baryogenesis,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 161302, hep-ph/0609086.

[4] W. Guzman, M. Sabido, J. Socorro, and L. Arturo Urena-Lopez, ``Scalar potentials out of canonical quantum cosmology,'' Int. J. Mod. Phys. D16 (2007) 641-654, gr-qc/0506041.

[4] A. R. Liddle and L. A. Urena-Lopez, ``Inflation, dark matter and dark energy in the string landscape,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 161301, astro-ph/0605205.

[5] F. S. Guzman and L. A. Urena-Lopez, ``Gravitational cooling of self-gravitating Bose- Condensates,'' Astrophys. J. 645 (2006) 814, astro-ph/0603613.

I have collaborated in more than 30 papers of different kind, 23 of which are already published in international refereed journals. Here is a complete list of publications, and a estimated number of citations (see also this summary), as depicted by SPIRES-HEP.

Supervised theses:

1. Lizbeth Fernández, Ph. D., IFUG, in progress.

2. Mayra Reyes-Ibarra, Ph. D., IFUG, in progress.

3. Carlos Martínez, Ph. D., IFUG. Title: Inflation and baryogenesis, Finished: August 2007.

4. Mayra Reyes-Ibarra, M. Sc., IFUG. Title: Cosmological parameters, Finished: October 2006.

5. Lizbeth Fernández, M. Sc., IFUG. Title: Black holes in the Universe, Finished: August 2006.

6. Gabriela Caldera-Cabral, M. Sc., IFUG. Title: The dark matter problem, Finished: August 2006.

7. Daniel Solís, B. Sc., UAF-UAZ. Title: Scalar fields in Cosmology, Finished: July 2006.

8. Mayra Reyes-Ibarra, B. Sc., UAF-UAZ. Title: Cosmological parameters, Finished: February 2005.

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