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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.

New Publication

IFAE COVID-19 Group Publishes Final Study on Catalonia’s Pandemic Response in Scientific Reports

January 7, 2025

On 30-12-2024 the IFAE COVID-19 group published in Scientific Reports from the Nature Multidisciplinary Collections its second and final paper ‘An Agent-Based Simulation of COVID-19 History in Catalonia Using Extensive Real Datasets’. The study highlights the impact of non-pharmaceutical measures and vaccination on COVID-19 spread in Catalonia.

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Joaquim Matias Receives 2024 ICREA Acadèmia and IPPP DIVA Award

December 18, 2024

Joaquim 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.

New Member

Cosimo Nigro joins the UAB Physics Department Faculty

December 11, 2024

IFAE gamma-ray astronomy researcher Cosimo Nigro has joined the UAB Physics Department Faculty as Lecturer (Professor Lector) in the High Energy Physics Unit (Unitat de Física d’Altes Energies). Cosimo had already been teaching in the Department as a Teaching Associate (Professor Associat) during his postdoctoral stay at IFAE.

New Member

New member in the Quantum Computing group

November 21, 2024

Guillermo Del Riego has joined the QCT group as a PhD student

New Member

New member in the Quantum Computing group

November 21, 2024

Ariadna Gómez has joined the QCT group as a PhD student

New Member

New member in the ATLAS Pixel group

November 21, 2024

Mahima Sachdeva has joined the ATLAS Pixel group as a PhD student

New Publication

New ATLAS group publication

November 14, 2024

“Search for vector-like leptons coupling to first- and second-generation Standard Model leptons in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”

New Publication

New ATLAS group publication

November 14, 2024

“Search for a heavy charged Higgs boson decaying into a W boson and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and b-jets in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”