Award
Joaquim Matias Receives 2024 ICREA Acadèmia and IPPP DIVA Award
December 18, 2024
Theory DivisionJoaquim 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.
In addition, Matias has received the IPPP DIVA Award in the UK. This award, part of the Distinguished Visiting Academic (DIVA) Program organized by Durham University’s Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), supports visits from leading international researchers to foster advanced phenomenological studies in UK universities.
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