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News

New Position

Martine Bosman elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

October 6, 2021

Martine Bosman was recently elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). EurASc is a fully independent international association of distinguished scholars that aims to recognize and elect to its membership the best European scientists with a vision for Europe as a whole, transcending national borders, and with the aims of strengthening European science and scientific cooperation.

Instrumentation Milestone

HGTD project milestone achieved

October 6, 2021

Wafers with the ALTIROC2 chip were received this week. This is a major milestone for the HGTD project.R. Casanova played a leading role in the design of the digital part of the chip and its verification.

New Publication

New Gamma-ray Group Publication

September 22, 2021

Probing Quantum Gravity with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes ” by Daniel Kerszberg and others has been published in Universe.

New Position

Pere Masjuan wins Associate Professorship at the Physics Department of UAB

September 15, 2021

Pere Masjuan has won an Associate Professorship at the Physics Department of UAB (Professor Agregat) in a position generated by himself for his outstanding achievements in research, transfer of knowledge, and outreach, starting the first of September.

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Master's Thesis defended last week

September 15, 2021

Last week the students of the Postgraduate Program in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology (Mastercosmos) defended their Master’s Thesis. A total 13 theses have been tutored by IFAE researchers.

Publication

New Theory group publication

September 8, 2021

Lensing of gravitational waves as a probe of compact dark matter by Juan Urrutia and Ville Vaskonen has been uploaded to arXiv.

Milestone

IFAE accepted as new member in the Hyer-Kamiokande Collaboration

September 8, 2021

The Hyer-Kamiokande Collaboration accepted IFAE as a new member. HyperK is one of the next generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.

New IFAE Members

New Member in the GW group

September 6, 2021

Marc Andrés has joined the Gravitational Waves group as a PhD student.

Instrumentation

ATLAS Pixels group milestone achieved

September 1, 2021

The ATLAS pixel group completed the first step to qualify IFAE as a 3D module production site for the HL-LHC upgrade