Emilio Elizalde

Emilio Elizalde (born 8 March 1950) is a Spanish physicist working in the fields of gravitational physics and general relativity.

Of Basque heritage, he was born in Balaguer, about 25 km northeast of Lleida, the province capital. He finished double undergraduate majors in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Barcelona in 1972 and 1973, followed by a masters and later a Ph.D. (1976) degree at the same institution. In 1977, he married Maria Carmen Torrent, who is currently Professor of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Catalonia. The years immediately after the death of Franco were chaotic, offering young academics few opportunities, and so Elizalde spent his postdoctoral years abroad with Rudolf Haag at the II. Institut für Theoretische Physik of the Hamburg University. Later, he was to return to the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Barcelona as a faculty member.

, the Astrophysics Data System lists 3035 citations to his publications (self-citations excluded), giving him an h-index of 38.

On 8–10 March 2010, in celebration of Elizalde's 60th birthday, a conference was organized to discuss current progress in the main areas of his research: cosmology, quantum vacuum fluctuations and zeta functions. A volume of proceedings was published.