Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics

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Surname and name	Address	+ info	Biography
ZORNOZA GOMEZ, JUAN DE DIOS PDI-Titular d'Universitat	Departamento FAMN - Bloque C, segunda planta (9635) 44585 juandedios.zornoza@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
Juan de Dios Zornoza Gómez, graduated from the University of Valencia in 1999 and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Valencia in 2005. Associate Professor in the Department of Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics at UV and accredited as Full Professor by ANECA. Principal Investigator of the VEGA group, dedicated to neutrino astronomy with the KM3NeT detector. He has been a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Madison-Wisconsin (USA), working on the AMANDA and IceCube experiments. He has held various responsibilities as a coordinator of working groups and in committees within ANTARES and KM3NeT. Principal Investigator of several projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, the Generalitat Valenciana, and the European Commission.
FIORINI, LUCA PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial	IFIC - Institut de Física Corpuscular & Departament of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics. IFIC: (9635) 43705; Physics Department: (9635) 43884 43705 luca.fiorini@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
After obtaining a PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, my research has focused on Higgs boson physics at the LHC. I contributed to the first ATLAS search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the ττ final state and to the combined analyses leading to the Higgs discovery in 2012. I later played a leading role in establishing the Higgs Yukawa coupling to fermions, coordinating the ATLAS analysis that provided evidence for the Higgs coupling to tau leptons and participating in the ATLAS–CMS Run 1 Higgs combination. During Run 2 and Run 3, I led searches for heavy Higgs bosons in the ττ channel and expanded my research to flavor physics, including lepton-flavor-violating Higgs decays and leptoquark searches. I also contributed to precision Higgs measurements and searches for Higgs boson pair production and self-coupling effects. Within ATLAS, I have held major leadership roles, including Data Preparation Coordinator, Executive Board member, and Convener of the Tau Group. Since 2006, I have been deeply involved in the operation and upgrade of the Tile Calorimeter, leading the development of the TilePPr digital back-end readout for the HL-LHC, which successfully passed its Final Design Review and it is now in production phase. I have authored more than 1300 publications and my h-index is 127. I have been PI of seven large research projects and I supervised eight PhD students and five postdoctoral researchers and served as Principal Investigator of several national research projects supporting ATLAS physics and detector upgrades.
MORENO LLACER, MARIA PDI-Titular d'UniversitatCoordinador/a CursCoordinador/a Curs	IFIC institute, office: nave exp. 131, (9635)44195; Dpto. Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, office: 3228, (9635) 44590 maria.moreno-llacer@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
- Investigadora en el Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), centro mixto del CSIC y la Universidad de Valencia (UV); física experimental de partículas, miembro del experimento ATLAS del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones LHC del CERN - También imparto docencia en el Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear de la UV - Superviso a varios estudiantes de doctorado, fin de máster y grado - Implicada en actividades de divulgación y de visibilización de la mujer en ciencia Estudios y experiencia profesional Licenciada en Física Máster en Física Avanzada Doctora en Física Más de 8 años de experiencia como investigadora postdoctoral en la Universidad de Goettingen (Alemania) y en el CERN (Suiza), el mayor laboratorio de investigación en Física de Altas Energías a nivel mundial, con una beca "CERN Research Fellow". Regresé a Valencia con un proyecto "Junior Leader" de la fundación La Caixa en 2019. Actualmente, soy investigadora Ramón y Cajal. También soy IP de otro proyecto financiado por la Generalitat Valenciana (programa GenT-SEJI) y una beca Leonardo de la fundación BBVA. Investigación - Núm. identificación: ORCID 0000-0003-1113-3645, WoS ID AAQ-7522-2020, SCOPUS 35223818000 - Dos sexenios de investigación reconocidos por la ANECA (1: 2008-2013, 2: 2014-2019) - Como investigadora del experimento ATLAS (más de 2500 colaboradores) tengo unas 1000 publicaciones, la gran mayoría del primer cuartil. Mi línea de investigación es la física experimental de altas energías, en concreto entender el origen de las masas de las partículas elementales (aquellas ya indivisbles), estudiando las colisiones del LHC. Mi trabajo, en concreto, se centra en el estudio de la interacción del bosón de Higgs, el responsable de la masa de las partículas elementales, con el quark top, la partícula más pesada que se conoce. Este análisis requiere técnicas de Inteligencia Artificial para distinguir la señal y tratamiento estadístico de los datos, con aplicaciones en otros temas de “Big Data” y “Data Science” - Puestos de responsabilidad en la colaboración científica ATLAS del LHC: Convener of subgroups: Higgs/Top (2021-2023), Modelling of Top Processes (2019-2020), MC Validation (2015-2016), Top Properties (2016-2018), LHC ttH/tH (2017-2021) Premios - Premio de la Real Sociedad Española de Física - Fundación BBVA: Investigador Novel en Física Experimental 2018 - Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award 2018, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Nueva York, Estados Unidos - XV Premio Cientifico-técnico Ciutat d'Algemesí, 2020 Comisiones y responsabilidades institucionales - Miembro del Consejo Científico de la Fundación Gadea Ciencia (desde 2022) - Jurado de los Premios RSEF-BBVA 2022 - Miembro del “Observers Committe of the African Strategy For Fundamental and Applied Physics” (desde 2021) - Coordinadora de la Oficina de Jóvenes Investigadores (OJI) del IFIC (desde 2021) - Tribunales de tesis doctorales - Evaluadora de becas de la Fundación La Caixa
LOPEZ MARCH, NEUS PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral PplSecretari/a de Departament	(9635) 44924 neus.lopez-march@uv.es	Personal file
DIAZ MEDINA, JOSE PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial	44599 jose.diaz@uv.es	Personal file
YAHLALI HADDOU, NADIA PDI-Titular d'Universitat	(9635) 44580 nadia.yahlali@uv.es	Personal file
ZUÑIGA ROMAN, JUAN PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial	Despatx 3217 Departament de Física Atòmica, Molecular i Nuclear Facultat de Física Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés, 19 46100 Burjassot (9635) 44586 juan.zuniga@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
He has a Degree in Physics (1988) and a PhD (1993) from the University of Valencia. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics at the Faculty of Physics. His research has focused on High Energy Physics and Astroparticle Physics. He has worked at CERN in the DELPHI experiment until 1994, where he completed his doctoral thesis, and the ATLAS experiment at the LHC (1995-1997). Since 1998, he has worked in Astroparticle Physics at the ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes. He is the co-author of 201 publications in indexed journals, with 11,117 citations and an h-index of 51. His scientific output averages 310 citations per year. He has been awarded five six-year research evaluation periods (“sexenios”). His main lines of research lie in the physics of neutrino telescopes and include (1) the study of neutrino properties, (2) the detection of astrophysical sources of cosmic neutrinos, and (3) the indirect detection of dark matter. He has participated continuously in more than 50 research projects funded by European, national, and regional governments, contributing to the creation and consolidation of the VEGA research group (Valencia Experimental Group on Astroparticle Physics). Throughout his career as a university professor, he has taught Physics in the Degree in Chemistry; Mathematical Methods, Numerical Calculus, Nuclear Physics Laboratory and Physics in the Degree in Physics; and Numerical and Statistical Methods and Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics in the Master in Advanced Physics. He has coordinated the organization of the “IFIC Summer Student Programme” since its first edition in 2016. He has six five-year teaching evaluation periods (“quinquenios”). He has supervised or co-supervised 9 doctoral theses, 10 Master's theses, and 9 Bachelor's theses. He has held various academic management positions, including Head of the Department of Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics for six years (2012-2018) and Director of the Master's Program in Advanced Physics since 2011.
GONZALEZ DE LA HOZ, SANTIAGO PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a de Departament	IFIC - Institut de Física Corpuscular Institus d'investigació de Paterna Despatx B.5.4 (9635) 44751 santiago.gonzalez@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
I was involved in the first and final phases of Datagrid and LCG computing grid projects. This GRID activity allowed me to have experience with GRID production infrastructure and the LCG project focused on distributed analysis. I presented this work in two national conferences, in Wve international conferences; it led to 1 publication in ATLAS note (publicated in Nucl. Instr. And Meth) and 4 publications in Springer Lecture Notes in Computing Science. At the same time, I participated and am participating in the ATLAS exotic group, in the search of new physics in ttbar pairs of high pT using the boosted objects. I am involved in the measurement of the top quark pair production charge asymmetry. This measurement represents an important test of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at high energies and is also an ideal place to observe effects of possible new physics processes beyond the Standard Model (BSM). I have participated in this measurement using 4.7 fb-1 of pp collisions at a centre of mass energy 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. I have presented this work in two national conferences, different collaboration workshops and has been published in Journal of High Energy Physics. Over the last years as postdoc at CERN with a Marie Curie and in Valencia, I have contributed to the evolution of the computing model for the ATLAS experiment working in ATLAS software contributing to the development of the software infrastructure needed for the physics analysis, participating very actively in the EventIndex project for the ATLAS experiment, which is a new metadata catalogue at event level which tries to exploit emerging NoSQL technologies and I am one of the main responsible of the Distributed Spanish ATLAS Tier-2 since 2001. I have worked and am working to build, maintain and operate a Tier-2 Grid computing infrastructure for experimental data analysis and Monte Carlo event generation for the ATLAS experiment. Currently I am the Principal investigator of the project "PID2019-104301RB-C21". Towards a True Federated Spanish ATLAS Tier-2 (IFIC site) to face the LHC Big Data management and processing challenges (Phase II)"". In my scientiWc lifetime, I have been the autor of more then 1000 JCR artciles registered in Web of Science (193000 + citation , h-index 190)" Tesis Doctorales: 7 dirigidas

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