Cristina Manuel

Cristina Manuel is a tenured researcher of the Spanish Research Council, working at the Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (IEEC-CSIC) of Barcelona, Spain. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona, and afterwards she was a research associate at MIT, a CERN fellow, and a Marie Curie Fellow at CERN. She is an expert on QCD under extreme temperature and density conditions and is interested in finding signatures of exotic QCD phases in astrophysical scenarios.