During the last few years Ramon’s activity has focused on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems where interesting physical effects such as Kondo, BCS superconducting pairing or magnetic states compete. This fundamental interest, together with the possibility of obtaining Majorana fermions in topological superconductors based on such systems, makes hybrids one of the more exciting topics in modern condensed matter physics.

Together with Dr. María J. Calderón will contribute to the efforts in microscopic modelling of Kitaev chains  and their interaction with superconducting circuits. He is part of the Theory of Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Technologies group, which has many years of experience in the modelling and simulation of superconductor-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures with a focus on Majorana and Andreev bound states and in silicon and germanium based spin qubits. Recently, Dr. Ramon Aguado  developed models for transmon qubits based on Majoranas and Andreev bound states in hybrid systems.