Pedro David Garcia

My primary scientific goal is to understand how entropy ultimately leads to complexity. Furthermore, how complexity can be used as a resource to obtain a given functionality. Entropy leads to structural imperfections, disorder and multiple scattering which is in general detrimental for any technology at the nanoscale, both in the classical or the quantum regime. However, disorder and randomness are ubiquitous in nature. In particular, I have focused my attention to how light is emitted from and propagates through structures where the dielectric function is moulded at the wavelength scale. This rather fundamental research topic has important applications in many relevant fields such as energy harvesting, imaging, lasing, quantum optics or information processing.