About IFAE

Construction of the LFAE Workshop Foundation

The Laboratori de Física d'Altes Enrgies (LFAE) gets going

LFAE joins the ALEPH EXperiment at CERN's LEP

LFAE developed the BCAL detector for ALEPH and delivered the FALCON computing system to CERN for the experiment.

IFAE Foundation

In 1991 the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) was founded as a consortium of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

IFAE joins the ATLAS Experiment at CERN

IFAE developed the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter and supervised the production of the ATLAS toroidal vessels

IFAE joins the MAGIC Collaboration

IFAE designs and builds the MAGIc I camera, which sees first light in 2003

The Dear Mama EU project led by IFAE starts

The medical imaging and applied physics groups starts at IFAE

IFAE joins K2K and later on, T2K

The neutrinos groups starts at IFAE. K2K & T2K received the Breakthrough Prize of Fundamental Physics in 2016

IFAE joins CDF at Tevatron, Fermilab

The CDF and D0 collaborations awarded the 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

The Port d'Informació Científica (PIC) begins

PIC is the Spanish LHC TIER-1 Data Center

IFAE joins the Dark Energy Survey (DES)

Observational Cosmology group begins at IFAE

IFAE joins the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)

IFAE co-leads the construction of CTA's largest telescopes, the LSTs

ERC Medical Imaging project VIP granted

Since 1999, IFAE has used its expertise with sophisticated radiation detectors to develop advanced medical imaging devices.

IFAE joins ESA's Euclid space mission

IFAE designed, constructed, assembled and qualified Euclid's Filter Wheel Assembly (FWA)

First Light for PAUCam

PAUCam was designed and built at IFAE

IFAE joins the DESI Collaboration

IFAE delivered the Guiding, Focusing and Alignment (GFA) cameras, the only imaging instruments in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).

IFAE joins the LSST Consortium

The cosmology groups joins the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera Rubin Observatory.

IFAE joins the Virgo Collaboration

This opened a new long-term research line in IFAE related to GWs detection using terrestrial interferometry.

Quantum Computing begins at IFAE

IFAE Quantum Computing Technologies lab completed .The QCT group achieves coherent control of the first Superconducting Qubit

Three new IFAE spin-offs: Qilimanjaro, Baretek & Deep detection

New pilots based on IFAE innovative technologies start being validated by industry.

Einstein Telescope

IFAE leads the ET-Preparatory Phase European project and plays a central role in the ET governance.