New IFAE Members
New Member in the Theory Division
July 1, 2021
Theory DivisionDiego Blas joins the Theory Division on July 2021 as a Beatriz de Galindo Distinguished Researcher.
Diego obtained his PhD in Physics in the University of Barcelona and was a postdoctoral researcher in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and New York University. He became Staff Member of the Theory Division at CERN in 2014 and joined King’s College London in 2018.
His research interests are in theoretical physics, gravitation and cosmology.
Publication
A new approach to searching for ultraheavy dark matter
September 9, 2026
The study “First Search for Ultraheavy Dark Matter Using a Magnetically Levitated Particle” , co-authored by IFAE researcher Dorian Amaral and collaborators, explores a new experimental approach to probing interactions of ultraheavy dark matter. The work has been reported on Phys.org