Miguel Alcubierre

Miguel Alcubierre (born 1964) is a Mexican theoretical physicist best known for the Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp-drive solution of general relativity in which a bubble of curved spacetime carries a spacecraft faster than light without locally breaking the speed limit. Born in Mexico City, he studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and took his doctorate at Cardiff University in 1994 with a paper on numerical general relativity that introduced the warp drive. He then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam on numerical techniques for describing black holes. Since 2002 he has worked at the Nuclear Sciences Institute of UNAM, which he has directed since 2012. He is the author of a textbook, Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity.