New Member

New member in the Gamma-ray group

February 7, 2025

Gamma-ray Group

Giacomo D’Amico has joined the Gamma-ray group as a Postdoctoral Researcher

Giacomo D’Amico received a PhD in Physics from the University of “La Sapienza” in Rome. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and at the University of Bergen in Norway, working on gamma-ray astronomy, dark matter searches, and Lorentz Invariance Violation. He joins IFAE under the Beatriu de Pinós fellowship, where he will keep working on fundamental physics and gamma-ray astronomy.

Welcome Giacomo!

Latest Group News

Event

ASAPP2025 Conference Organized by the Gamma-ray Group at IFAE

May 15, 2025

The Advances in Space Astroparticle Physics (ASAPP2025) conference , bringing together approximately 100 scientists to discuss cutting-edge technologies for particle detection in space, is taking place this week (May 12–16) in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona).

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) includes Keerthana Lathika, Essna Ghose, Benjamin Hauptman, Giulio Lucchetta, and Javier Rico (Chair). The Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) includes Javier Rico.

Keerthana Lathika, Luis Fariña and Essna Ghose will present the results of their recent work during the conference.

New Member

New member in the Gamma-ray group

January 15, 2025

Sergio Rodriguez has joined the Gamma-ray group as a PhD student

Milestone

The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium

January 8, 2025

On January 7, 2025, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) was officially recognized as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) by the European Commission.