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Publication

New QCT group publication

January 15, 2025

Direct Detection of Down-Converted Photons Spontaneously Produced at a Single Josephson Junction by Alba Torras and collaborators has been published in Physical Review Letters.

New Member

New member in the Theory group

January 15, 2025

Noé Duarte has joined the theory group as a PhD student

New Member

New member in the Gamma-ray group

January 15, 2025

Sergio Rodriguez has joined the Gamma-ray group as a PhD student

KTT

IFAE Secures Ginjol Funding for VIP Tech Patent

January 15, 2025

IFAE has been awarded 10,000€ in competitive funding from the Ginjol call to support the maintenance of the VIP technology patent, developed by Prof. Chmeissani.

outreach activity

IFAE joins CCCB for “Radical Science”: A Cultural Project Exploring 21st-Century Scientific Frontiers

January 15, 2025

The High Energy Physics Institute (IFAE) is one of four research centres that collaborate with the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) in a series of events called “Radical Science”, a cultural initiative that showcases how cutting-edge scientific research is transforming our world.

New Member

Arnau Picó joins IFAE as head of the Research Projects Office

January 9, 2025

Arnau has 10 years experience as EU Project Manager

Milestone

The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium

January 8, 2025

On January 7, 2025, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) was officially recognized as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) by the European Commission.

New Publication

IFAE COVID-19 Group Publishes Final Study on Catalonia’s Pandemic Response in Scientific Reports

January 7, 2025

On 30-12-2024 the IFAE COVID-19 group published in Scientific Reports from the Nature Multidisciplinary Collections its second and final paper ‘An Agent-Based Simulation of COVID-19 History in Catalonia Using Extensive Real Datasets’. The study highlights the impact of non-pharmaceutical measures and vaccination on COVID-19 spread in Catalonia.

Award

Joaquim Matias Receives 2024 ICREA Acadèmia and IPPP DIVA Award

December 18, 2024

Joaquim Matias has been awarded the 2024 ICREA Acadèmia. The announcement was made this week following the resolution of the ICREA Acadèmia 2024 call, managed by AGAUR.