Irene Valenzuela
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Irene Valenzuela Agüí is a Spanish theoretical physicist whose research concerns the swampland program and dark dimension scenario of string theory and quantum gravity.[1][2][3] She is a staff member at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland,[4] and a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Valenzuela studied physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she received her undergraduate degree in 2011 and a master's degree in 2013, and completed her Ph.D. in 2015. Her dissertation, The Higgs sector, SUSY breaking and Inflation in String Theory, was supervised by Luis Enrique Ibáñez.[5]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany from 2015 to 2017, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands from 2017 to 2018, at Cornell University in the United States from 2018 to 2019, and at Harvard University in the United States from 2019 to 2021. She became a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and took a leave from her position in Madrid to become a staff member at CERN in 2022.[5]
