New Member
New Member in the Theory group
December 14, 2021
Theory DivisionSilvia Gasparotto has just joined the Theory group as PhD student supervised by Diego Blas.
Silvia is Italian and did her Bachelor at the University in Trieste. She completed her studies at the “Elite Master Course in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics” between the LMU and TUM universities in Munich. She accomplished her Master Thesis at the Max Planck for Astrophysics on the “Cosmic Birefringence from Axion Monodromy Potential” under the supervision of professor Eiichiro Komatsu.
Welcome, Silvia!
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