Marco Aparo has just joined the ATLAS group at IFAE as a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher.

Marco obtained his PhD at the University of Sussex, UK, where he has also been a postdoctoral researcher. He is member of the ATLAS Collaboration, and has extensive experience in searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) in multilepton final states as well as tracking performance, both online and offline. He will be contributing to IFAE’s broad and ambitious program of BSM searches in multilepton final states, as well as the upgrade of the ATLAS software-based Event Filter trigger system for the High-Luminosity LHC, specifically concerning the Inner Tracker (ITk) performance, an area where he has made impactful contributions already during his postdoc at the University of Sussex.

Clarisse Prat completed her Master program at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is thrilled to join the IFAE ATLAS group as a PhD student to search for di-Higgs and leptoquarks in final states with b-tagged jets and tau leptons, as well as to work on the trigger system for the High-Luminosity LHC.

Sanjay Rijal completed his Masters of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences (Major: Particle Physics) at BIST/IFAE. He is excited to (re-)join the IFAE ATLAS group as a PhD student to search for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Higgs bosons and measure the four-top-quark production cross-section in final states with multiple leptons and b-tagged jets, as well as to work on the trigger system for the High-Luminosity LHC.

Welcome Marco, Clarisse and Sanjay!