Sebastian Bahamonde

I am a Chilean theoretical physicist currently based in Daejeon, South Korea. I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), working in the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe: Cosmology, Gravity and Astroparticle Physics Group (CTPU-CGA).

I began my academic path at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, where I obtained my BSc in Physical Science, my MSc in Physics, and my professional degree in Astronomy. During this period I developed my interest in gravitation, cosmology and relativistic astrophysics. My MSc research focused on dynamical wormholes in General Relativity.

After my MSc, I worked as a Physics Teaching Fellow at the Universidad de Los Lagos in Puerto Montt, Chile. Supported by the BECAS CHILE scholarship, I then completed a PhD in Mathematics at University College London (UCL), working on theoretical gravity and cosmology.

After my PhD, I held research and teaching-related positions in the United Kingdom, Estonia and Japan. I worked as an Isaac/Ogden Fellow at the University of Lincoln, in partnership with Isaac Physics, the Ogden Trust and the University of Cambridge. I then moved to the University of Tartu as a Mobilitas Pluss Postdoctoral Fellow, later to Tokyo Institute of Technology as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, and then to Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo, before joining IBS.

My work has developed from modified teleparallel cosmology to broader non-Riemannian and gauge-theoretic formulations of gravity, including metric-affine gravity, Poincaré gauge theory, black-hole solutions, cosmological perturbations and gravitational-wave signatures.