New Position

Pere Masjuan wins Associate Professorship at the Physics Department of UAB

September 15, 2021

Theory Division

Pere Masjuan has won an Associate Professorship at the Physics Department of UAB (Professor Agregat) in a position generated by himself for his outstanding achievements in research, transfer of knowledge, and outreach, starting the first of September.

He also won a Serra i Húnter Assistant Professorship (Lector Serra i Húnter) that he rejected.

Congratulations Pere!

Latest Group News

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

New publication

New Theory Group paper on gravitational-wave detection

February 13, 2026

Covariant eigenmode overlap formalism for gravitational wave signals in electromagnetic cavities

New Member

New member in the Theory Group

January 22, 2026

Antonio Rivera joined the Theory group at IFAE as a PhD student