A thesis conducted in the Corpuscular Physics Institute, IFIC, (Higher Council for Scientific Research - Universitat de València), has been one of the three chosen by the Nuclear Division of the European Physical Society. This institution, which gathers scientific societies and European centres of physics research, awards the best doctoral theses in the area of nuclear physics. The thesis is written by Jorge Martín Camalich and supervised by Universitat de València’s lecturer Manuel Vicente. It introduces innovations on the theories explaining the interactions among the components of the particles making up the nucleus of the atom.
This is the first time the Nuclear Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) awards these prizes for the doctoral theses read in its member countries on nuclear physics, theoretical physics or nuclear physics applications fields during 2009, 2010 and 2011. In this first edition, three mentions have been awarded, one of them to Jorge Martín Camalich at IFIC. Moreover, the thesis done by Xavier Roca-Maza at Universitat de Barcelona has won a special mention. The prizes ceremony is taking place in the second meeting of the EPS’s Nuclear Division in Bucarest (Rumania) on September 2012.
The thesis titled Properties of the lowest-lying baryons in chiral perturbation theory by Jorge Martín Camalich introduces innovations on the theories explaining the properties of protons and neutrons (which make up the nucleus of the atom) from the interactions among the components basic components, quarks and gluons. ‘One of the great challenges of modern physics’ as his author, Jorge Martín, explains from University of Sussex (UK) where he continues his post-doctoral research.
Jorge Martín Camalich (1979) is from La Laguna, Tenerife. He studied at Universidad de Granada and Universitat de València. He got his PhD in Valencia in 2010 and currently is doing his post-doctoral research at University of Sussex.
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