Born 1965 in Manresa, Spain. Licenciado (graduate) in theoretical physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1988), PhD in Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1991), Fellow "Formación del Personal Investigador" (Prog. General) (1989-1991), "Profesor Titular de Universidad", Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (1991-1996), Research Associate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado (1993-1994), Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck (1996-2001), Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institut of Quantum Optics (since 2001), Honorary Professor, Technical University of Munich (since 2002).