Emilio Royo Carratala

Emilio Royo Carratala

I graduated as an Industrial Engineer in 2004 at the Universitat Politècnica de València but my passion for Physics prompted me to, later on, study an MSc in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (2017), and a PhD in Theoretical Physics (2023), awarded with highest honours, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Institut de Física d'Altes Energies. As a member of the Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU, I now look forward to passing on my fascination for the field to my students.

My research interest revolves around the phenomenology of the strong interactions at low energies, including topics such as eta/eta' physics, effective field theories (e.g., SMEFT, chiral perturbation theory and its extension to include the pseudoscalar singlet), as well as phenomenological models based on chiral symmetry, and their use in the search for light dark-sector particles in hadronic processes. It's worth mentioning that I am an active member of the REDTOP Collaboration. In addition to this, I am profoundly interested in foundational aspects of quantum mechanics.

As part of my professional engineering career, I have contributed over the last 20 years to the technological advancement of electric propulsion systems within the Formula One and automotive private sectors. As particularly significant achievements, I should highlight my contribution to the design of the first kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) raced by the Vodafone-McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team, which was widely regarded as the best KERS system in the F1 grid, my participation in the design of the ISO26262 ASIL-D inverter for the all-electric torque-vectoring two-wheel drive Audi R8 E-tron, which set the record for the fastest production electric car at the Nürburgring circuit, and, more recently, the design of the inverter for the Red Bull RB17 hypercar.