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Master's Thesis defended last week
September 15, 2021
IFAELast week the students of the Postgraduate Program in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology (Mastercosmos) defended their Master’s Thesis. A total 13 theses have been tutored by IFAE researchers.
List of Theses:
- Juan Urrutia: “Search for primordial blackholes via gravitational wave lensing with ground based detectors”. Tutor: Ville Vaskonen
- Marc Andrés Carcassona: “Searches of gravitational waves from asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using convolutional neural networks during O2”. Tutor: Mario Martínez.
- Jordi Capó, “Neutron Detection Capabilities”. Tutor: Thorsten Lux
- Arul Prakash, “B decays form factor parameterization using Neural Networks”. Tutor: Pere Masjuan
- Adriana Ghiozzi, “A two-particle solution to lepton magnetic moment anomalies and its implications for rare B decay observables” Tutor: Pere Masjuan
- Helena Recasens, “Application of machine-learning techniques for background suppression in searches for higgsino pair production with the ATLAS detector”. Tutor: Aurelio Juste, Carlos Moreno
- Oriol Izquierdo, “Optimization of a new light scalar boson search analysis using data of the ATLAS experiment”. Tutor:Imma Riu
- Fernando García. “Search for the pair production of vector-like quarks in final states with multiple b-jets”. Tutor: Aurelio Juste
- Aday Cárdenas, “On Cosmological Phase Transitions: Gravitational Waves and Gauge Dependence”. Tutor: Ville Vaskonen
- Maria Lainez, “Analysis of gamma-ray observations performed with the first Large-Sized Telescope of CTA”. Tutor: Abelardo Moralejo
- Akshay Kumar, “Optimising baffle parameters in Einstein Telescope”. Tutor: Mario Martínez
- Daniel Serrano, “Novel instrumentation for light detection in the Virgo Interferometer”. Tutor: Mario Martínez
- Joan Llobera, “Modeling Gravitational Waveforms for Parameter Estimation with Machine Learning”. Tutor: Mario Martínez

Event
IFAE brings physics to CosmoCaixa for the European Researchers’ Night 2026
September 17, 2026
IFAE will bring fundamental physics closer to the public at CosmoCaixa during the European Researchers’ Night 2026, with activities developed within the European Project PICO New Horizons, including an interactive cosmology workshop for families and a live jazz and physics performance.
Activity
IFAE launches ‘Ask the Universe’ for the European Researchers’ Night
September 16, 2026
IFAE launches Ask the Universe (Pregunta a l’Univers), a new educational outreach initiative inviting young people to share the questions about the Universe that most intrigue them. The activity is part of IFAE’s programme for the European Researchers’ Night 2026 and has been developed within the European project PICO New Horizons.
