Biographie

Hernán grew up in Argentina, where he obtained a Nuclear Engineering degree at the Instituto Balseiro in 2010. After gaining experience in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics as a Research Engineer at the National Atomic Energy Commission, he moved to France where he completed a MSc in Fusion Science (2012), at the Aix-Marseille University, with a Master dissertation carried out at ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), focusing on superconducting magnet cooling. His interest for the cooling of cryogenic systems led him to completing a PhD in experimental cryogenic heat transfer at the University of Paris-Saclay (Boiling Helium Natural Circulation Loops in Transient Regime, 2015). In 2016, he received a MCSA COFUND CERN fellowship, with which he carried out a 3-year research project at CERN, at the Superconducting Radiofrequency and Cryogenics Central Laboratory sections. He led the development of superconducting ultra fine thermometry below 2 K based on Au-Sn transition edge sensors. This was his first contact with the microtechnology world and with EPFL, through the CMi. In 2019, following this new passion, he joined Prof. Niels Quack's group as a PostDoc in Integrated Photonics and MEMS. In 2020, Hernán obtained an SNSF Ambizione grant, in collaboration with Prof. Jürgen Brugger and Prof. Giovanni Boero, from the LMIS1, to work on superconducting microresonators for microwave cryogenic sensing. He currently carries out research in these two different fields of Integrated Photonics and Cryogenic Sensing, leveraging his expertise in nanotechnology to develop innovative technologies.