IFIC scientist Juan Fuster Verdú, has been appointed chairman of the commission of Particle Physics and Areas of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). This scientific society was created in 1922 to promote the study and advancement of physics, plus scientific cooperation between nations, being, moreover, responsible for ICHEP, the largest international conference of the world in this field. This is the first time a Spanish person occupies that office.
Juan Fuster Verdú (Alcoy, 1960) is CSIC Research Professor at the Institute of Physics Corpuscular (IFIC), a joint CSIC and the Universitat de València. His choice was proposed in the International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP) last July. Fuster was co-president of the organizing committee with support from the Instituto de Física Corpuscular. The designation was formally made at the last meeting of the General Assembly, the governing body of the IUPAP, held recently in Singapore. It has its three years duration from 2015.
For Juan Fuster, “it is a new challenge that I take forward in a very interesting period as transcendent in this field for the future of particle physics decisions and this post will allow us to be an active part of the discussions will be taken”. The scientific from Alcoy replaces japanese Hiroaki Aihara.
Apart from the ICHEP organization, the commission that Juan Fuster leads, collaborates with other important institutions on the global scene of particle physics, including the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA, for its acronym in English), which are represented world leading laboratories involved in projects to develop new particle accelerators such as CERN. In this sense, Fuster is the European representative for the study of physics and detectors future linear particle accelerator, a precision machine to study the physics of the LHC which plans to build in Japan.
The IUPAP appeared in 1922 when representatives from thirteen countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Spain, France, Holland, Japan, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, UK, USA and South Africa) decided to create an international institution from the International Council for Research specifically dedicated to physics. Personalities like Nobel Marie Curie, Lorentz and de Broglie Awards were there, among its first delegates. Blas Cabrera was the first Spanish representative.
Juan Fuster is CSIC Research Professor at IFIC. Experimental particle physicist, began his research experiment CELLO (DESY, Germany). From 1986-1996 he was in the DELPHI experiment at CERN. After his return to Valencia he began in the IFIC a group to develop silicon detectors applied to particles physics experiments, pioneer in Spain. This group joined ATLAS experiment and built a part of the inner detector one silicon detectors who discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
From 2005 he also works on the development of future linear particle accelerator (ILC), coordinating the Spanish scientific network for this topic. He is currently a member of the steering committee of the Linear Collider Collaboration, and she is European representative on the committee of physics and detectors. He was director of IFIC (2003-2007), manager of the National Plan for Particle Physics (2007-2010) and coordinator of Physical Sciences of CSIC (2010-2012), also co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee ICHEP 2014.
Last update: 22 de december de 2014 08:57.
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