Emilio was the recipient of the 2023 Rayburn Lab Award and a Rayburn Fellowship to do research in the Drake Lab. In 2024, he successfully completed his Honors Thesis, "Measuring THz Repetition Rate of Microresonator Optical Frequency Combs using Electro-Optic Modulation" and graduated from the Physics and Astronomy program with honors.

Emilio is currently a graduate student at the Institute for Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, Spain (link).