Javier Resta received his degree in Physics (“Licenciatura”) from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2001. Then, he moved to Mainz University (Germany) where, in 2003, he obtained a “Diplomarbeit” in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. In 2004, he was awarded with a doctoral fellowship from CERN. His PhD thesis was focused on the design and performance characterisation studies of nonlinear collimation systems for both circular (e.g. LHC) and linear (e.g. CLIC) colliders. After obtaining his PhD in Accelerator Physics with “Summa cum laude” from the University of Valencia in 2007, Dr Resta worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at different prestigious international institutions: John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI), Oxford University; the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) under the umbrella of a “Juan de la Cierva” fellowship; and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan.

In 2014, Javier joined the University of Liverpool within the framework of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for experienced researchers. He conducted Beam Physics research to better understand the Beam Dynamics in low energy antiproton and ion storage rings towards the performance optimisation of existing and new antimatter facilities. In 2017, Javier was promoted to the position of Research Coordinator and Deputy Leader of the Quantum Systems and advanced Accelerator Research (QUASAR) Group at the University of Liverpool and Cockcroft Institute. He has led a wide-ranging R&D portfolio, including advanced beam dynamics studies, beam diagnostics and novel particle acceleration techniques.

Since July 2020, Dr Resta is a Distinguished Researcher (Plan GenT) at the Institute of Materials Science of the University of Valencia (ICMUV). 

Dr. Jorge Giner Navarro graduated with honors in Physics from the Universitat de València in 2012 and completed his Master's degree in Advanced Physics in 2013 at the same university. Later, he was awarded a doctoral student fellowship at CERN from 2013 to 2016 to carry out his thesis, attached to the Accelerator Physics Group of the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) and the Universitat de València. His thesis, defended in 2017, focused on phenomenological studies of vacuum breakdowns in high-gradient, high-frequency compact accelerator structures with applications in future linear colliders and medical hadron therapy accelerators. For this, he had direct collaboration with the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project and the development of the new high-power facilities at IFIC-IFIMED. In 2017, he obtained a postdoctoral scholar contract at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and between 2019 and 2024 he belonged to the Accelerator Unit of the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Terrestres (CIEMAT). Since 2024, he is part of the NOVAS group at the Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de la Universitat de València (ICMUV) as a senior postdoctoral researcher.

He had an excellent education from distinguished schools in the field of Particle Accelerators such as the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS), CERN Accelerator School (CAS), and the Linear Collider School. Among his extensive experience as an Accelerator Physicist, highlights include his work in designing, manufacturing, and experimentally validating accelerator structures and RF components, conducting particle beam tracking simulations, developing beam diagnostic systems, and operating accelerator lines for experiments.

Yanis Fontenla graduated in Physics from the University of Valencia (UV) in 2013, followed by a master's degree in Advanced Physics from the same university in 2015. He later earned a Ph.D. in Physics, specializing in Nuclear and Particle Physics and the R&D of detectors for Particle Physics and Medicine, from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in 2020.

During his time with the Tragaldabas collaboration at USC, he conducted research on particle identification and tracking in detectors using the EnsarRoot framework (part of the European Ensar project), as well as energy studies of particles in the same detectors through data simulations with the CORSIKA program. His scientific career then took him to the IRIS Medical Physics group at the Institute Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), where he spent several months performing data simulations with GATE and tracking photons in PET detectors.

Subsequently, he conducted dynamic studies on neutronic flux and energy for various nuclear reactor designs using the FEMFFUSION program at the ISIRYM institute, part of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). These experiences have significantly enhanced his skills in data simulation and particle tracking in material detectors.

Pablo Martín Luna graduated with honours in Physics from the Universitat de Valencia (UV), Spain, in 2020. During his studies he obtained a collaboration grant with the Department of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism. During 2020-21 he received his Master’s degree in Advanced Physics (specialisation in photonics) from the UV, a JAE INTRO 2020 scholarship for training in the IRIS group of IFIC in Valencia and a grant for research collaboration in IFIC. Moreover, he obtained the 4th place in PLANCKS 2021, an international physics competition for bachelor and master students.

He has worked in numerical simulations of the relativistic dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields using the Boris method. Currently, he is a PhD student with a FPU2020 grant in order to explore novel particle acceleration techniques using carbon nanostructures.

Juan completed his bachelor's degree from the University of Valencia (UV) in 2021. Thereafter, in 2022 he went on to earn a a master's in Advanced Physics, specializing in theoretical studies. Throughout his academic journey, he addressed challenges in theoretical physics, notably resolving the 2D Ising model using methods from Onsager, Kaufmann, and Baxter, and investigating analogous radiation models in acoustic black holes.

In the past, Juan also collaborated with the PhysioMRI group at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), where he developed a Python software from the ground up to interpret raw data from pioneering mT MRI scanners, producing clear images.

As a PhD student at the University of Valencia, Juan carries out research on Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) with structured inhomogeneous high density plasmas.

Fazel is a nuclear engineer who specialises in radiation applications. In 2017 he obtained his master's degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), where he received a scholarship to work on beam dynamics and magnet design of a cyclotron for PET imaging as part of a national project in Iran. He has also collaborated with research groups from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and the Alceli company on the development of a new accelerator for proton therapy.

Fazel's PhD project at the University of Valencia focuses on the optical design and beam dynamics studies of the novel ISOLDE Superconducting Recoil Separator (ISRS).