Miguel Angel Bastarrachea Magnani is a Full-Time Professor in the Theoretical Physics Area of the Physics Department at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Campus Iztapalapa. He joined the UAM-I as a Visiting Professor in 2020, and since 2023, he has been an Associate Professor. He obtained his degree of Doctor in Physics in 2016 and Doctor of Philosophy in 2022 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

In 2011, he received the Gabino Barreda medal for his performance in the Bachelor's degree in Physics. Since 2019, he has had the distinction of being a Level 1 National Researcher by Conahcyt, and since 2022, he has had the PRODEP Desirable Profile. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the UNAM, the University of Freiburg in Germany, and the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

He is the author of more than forty scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has participated as a speaker in various national and international conferences addressing research topics in physics, philosophy, ludology, and education. He has also taught classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Mexico and Germany.

His interests lie in different fields, including polariton physics in quantum optics, atomic and condensed matter physics platforms such as microcavity semiconductors, classical and quantum chaos, quantum phase transitions, quantum field theory, and strongly correlated systems.

His studies have allowed us to expand various aspects of the study of quantum states that result from the strong coupling between light and matter in strongly interacting systems. From his doctoral thesis, he progressed in the state of the art of excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPT), helping to establish their relationship with thermal phenomena and chaos. His later investigations contributed to the study of numerical solutions of the Dicke model, which has allowed progress in the exploration of its dynamics, the classical-quantum correspondence, the definition of quantum Lyapunov exponents, and the study of the equilibrium and thermalization of isolated quantum systems.

Currently, his research has expanded the understanding of many-body states resulting from strong interactions in polaronic systems in atomic physics and semiconductor microcavities, where he studies quantum fluids of light. In addition, he studies other topics such as the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of myth, German idealism, and role-playing game studies (RPG Studies).