New Member
New member in the Theory Group
January 22, 2026
Theory DivisionAntonio Rivera joined the Theory group at IFAE as a PhD student
Antonio Rivera obtained his Physics degree and a Master’s degree in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology at the UAB, where he worked on holography applied to the muon g-2 and later on QCD sum rules. At IFAE, he will join Pere Masjuan’s group, where he will work on topics related to low-energy QCD, non-perturbative physics, and probes of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Welcome Antonio!

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
