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Daniel Figueroa

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Position: 
Former member
Office: 
SCI
Phone: 
+41 22 379 63 77
Email: 
daniel.figueroa@unige.ch

Publication listings: 
inSPIRE
Topics: 
Cosmic microwave background, Gravitational waves, Inflation, Topological defects, Non-Gaussianity, Large-scale structure

Bio: 
  • Sept 2006 - Apr 2010 (3.5 years): PhD Student at UAM/IFT MADRID, including visiting periods at

              * CITA, Toronto, Canada, Agu - Dec 2007 (4 months)
              * UNIGE, Geneve, Switzerland, Agu - Dec 2008 (4 months)
              * CALTECH, California, U.S.A., Sept - Dec 2009 (3.5 months)
              * CERN, Geneve, Switzerland, Jan - Apr 2010 (4 months)           

  • May 2010 - Jul 2010: MARIE CURIE Early Stage TrainingShip fellow at CERN (3 months)  

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2012: Postdoc at Helsinki University (HU) & Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki

  • Oct 2012 - Present: Postdoc at Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva

Recent publications and presentations:

A note of clarification: BICEP2 and Planck are not in tension
Date: 6. May 2014
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Inflation, Cosmic microwave background
Type: Publication
Can Self-Ordering Scalar Fields explain the BICEP2 B-mode signal?
Date: 16. April 2014
Members involved: Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz, Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Cosmic microwave background, Topological defects, Inflation
Type: Publication
The Standard Model in the Sky
Date: 7. February 2014
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Inflation, Gravitational waves, Anisotropic stress
Type: Presentation
Imprints of the Standard Model in the Sky
Date: 6. February 2014
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Gravitational waves, Inflation, Anisotropic stress
Type: Publication
Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropies from the large-N limit of global defects
Date: 15. November 2013
Members involved: Ruth Durrer, Daniel Figueroa, Martin Kunz
Topics: Cosmic microwave background, Topological defects
Type: Publication
CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies from the large-N limit of Global Defects
Date: 15. November 2013
Members involved: Ruth Durrer, Daniel Figueroa, Martin Kunz
Topics: Cosmic microwave background, Topological defects
Type: Research Tools
Stairway to Heaven
Date: 4. October 2013
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Gravitational waves, Inflation
Type: Presentation
On the Anisotropy of the Gravitational Wave Background from Massless Preheating
Date: 5. September 2013
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Gravitational waves, Inflation
Type: Publication
Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from Fermions. Theory and Applications
Date: 1. July 2013
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Gravitational waves, Inflation
Type: Publication
Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Defects: A Universal Result
Date: 7. June 2013
Members involved: Daniel Figueroa
Topics: Gravitational waves, Topological defects
Type: Presentation

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