Paulo Montero Camacho, PhD

My name is Paulo Montero-Camacho. I am originally from Costa Rica. I went to the Scientific High School of Alajuela, this is where my interest in physics really grew thanks to my great teacher Pablo Blanco.

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I did my undergraduate in physics at Universidad de Costa Rica. I graduated with honors and top of my class in 2013. My undergraduate research focused on General Relativity, principally the exploration of new approximate and exact solutions of Einstein's field equations. I worked with Prof. Francisco Frutos and Prof. Javier Bonatti.

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I am currently a fifth year physics PhD student at The Ohio State University. My current research interests focus in cosmology, notably early universe and non-standard probes of cosmology. In particular, I am interested in 21 cm cosmology, CMB polarization, cosmic reionization, intensity mapping, WFRIST, and instabilities in mergers of neutron stars. My advisor is Prof. Christopher Hirata, he is an active member of the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics. Recently, I have been working in CMB circular polarization, binary neutron star mergers, primordial black holes constraints and the effects of reionization in the Lyman-alpha forest.