Associate Professor at UAB since 2008. Pre-doc position at Münster University, in C. Deninger team, between 1998-2000. Prize Evariste Galois 1998 from Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques, IEC, Catalonia. Coorganizer of a research programm on Arithmetic Geometry at CRM, Bellaterra, 2009-10.

Research Group: Barcelona Number Theory Group (STNB)

Website: https://mat.uab.cat/~francesc/publicac.html

L-functions Iwasawa theory Drinfeld modules Arithmetic of curves of lower genus and modular curves

PID2020-116542GB-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia y Universidades of Spanish government Grup consolidat Seminari de Teoria de Nombres, 2021 SGR 01468 (AGAUR)

Bruno Anglès, Andrea Bandini, Francesc Bars, Ignazio Longhi: Iwasawa main conjecture for the Carlitz cyclotomic extension and applications. Math. Ann. 376, No. 1-2, 475-523 (2020).

Francesc Bars, Josep González, Automorhism group of the modular curve $X_0^*(N)$ with square-free levels. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), 5783-5803

Eslam Badr, Francesc Bars, Elisa Lorenzo: On twists of smooth plane curves. Math. Comp. 88 (2019), 421--438, Francesc Bars: Bielliptic modular curves. J. Number Theory 76 (1999), no. 1, 154—165

F. Bars, M.Kamel, A. Schweizer: Bielliptic quotient curves of X_0(N). Mathematics of Computation AMS Volume 92, Number 340, (2023), Pages 895–929.

F. Bars, T.Dalal: The modular automorphisms of quotient modular curves. Manuscript, July 2024 (submitted).