Throughout his academic career, Avelino Vicente has combined research with teaching and outreach, three facets that he considers fundamental. After completing his PhD at the University of Valencia in March 2011, he undertook a period of international mobility through postdoctoral positions in Würzburg (Germany), Orsay (France), and Liège (Belgium). In July 2015, he joined IFIC (CSIC–University of Valencia) as a postdoctoral researcher and held a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowship during the period 2016–2017. Following a brief period employed as a Senior Research Fellow by the University of Valencia, he obtained a postdoctoral position within the framework of the FÍSICA SABOR project, of which he was the Principal Investigator. He subsequently held a Ramón y Cajal position at the University of Valencia from January 2020 to September 2024, after which he became a permanent lecturer at the same institution.

Throughout his research career, his work has been consistently oriented towards frontier topics in particle physics, exploring a wide variety of extensions of the Standard Model. He has published more than 60 research articles in high-impact, peer-reviewed international journals and has delivered talks at the most important conferences in his field, frequently as an invited speaker. In the INSPIRE database [http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Vicente.1], which is commonly used in his research area, his publications had received a total of 4,688 citations as of 14 November 2025, with an h-index of 35. As a result of his scientific contributions, he has been awarded three six-year research periods ("sexenios") by ANECA. In 2023, he was granted the R3 certificate by the Spanish State Research Agency, recognising his status as an established researcher.

Since joining the University of Valencia as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, he has carried out teaching duties in the Bachelor's Degree in Physics, where he has taught the courses Calculus I and Quantum Physics Laboratory for several years. Since 2024, he has served as the degree coordinator. He is also a member of the monitoring committees for the Double Degrees in Physics and Mathematics and in Physics and Chemistry. He holds one five-year teaching evaluation period ("quinquenio"), corresponding to the period 2007–2020. He has supervised the PhD theses of Paulina Rocha Morán, defended at the University of Bonn (Germany) in August 2019, and Pablo Escribano, defended at the University of Valencia (Spain) in September 2023. He is currently supervising the PhD theses of Antonio Herrero-Brocal and Javier Pérez-Soler, both at the University of Valencia, with expected completion dates in 2026 and 2027, respectively. In addition, he has supervised numerous Bachelor's and Master's theses and is regularly invited as a lecturer at international schools aimed at doctoral students.

Finally, he also devotes a substantial portion of his time to outreach activities and has extensive experience in science communication across a wide range of formats.

- 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

- Docente 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. Luego fue investigadora Ramón y Cajal (2021-2025) hasta que me estabilicé como Profesora Titular. Participo en varios proyectos de investigación.  

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)

- He dirigido 3 tesis doctorales ya defendidas, y en la actualidad estoy dirigiendo otras 3

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

- Premios a la Investigación L'Oréal-Unesco "For Women in Science" 2023-24 (edición XVIII)

- XII Premio al Independiente del Año (categoría Ciencia e Investigación), Leganés, 2025

Comisiones y responsabilidades institucionales

- Miembro del Consejo Científico de la Fundación Gadea Ciencia (desde 2022)

- Jurado de los Premios RSEF-BBVA 2022

- Evaluadora de prestigiosas becas y proyectos de la fundación BBVA y de La Caixa, y MSCA de la Unión Europea

- Coordinadora de la Oficina de Jóvenes Investigadores (OJI) del IFIC (2021-2'24)

- Tribunales de tesis doctorales

Ana Cros studied Physics in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1990) and finished her PhD in Applied Physics in the University of Valencia (1994). Since 2011 she is Full Professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Valencia. She developes her research at the Institute of Material's Science (ICMUV). Her present interests point to the use of Scanning Probe Microscopy techniques, combined with optical excitation, for the characterization of the electrical properties of nanostructures. In the last two years we have developed at ICMUV a laboratory of advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy techniques that includes conductive AFM sensitive from pico to nano Ampère, and Kelvin Force Microscopy under visible and  ultraviolet illumination. She has co-authored more than 100 international papers in the field of condensed matter physics and materials science.

Degree in Physics from the University of Valencia, July 1993. PhD in Physics from the University of Valencia, September 1997.

Postdoctoral appointments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York (February–August 1998); EU Marie Curie fellowship at SISSA, Trieste (Italy) from September 1998 to September 2000; Marie Curie reintegration grant at the University of Valencia from October 2000 to October 2001; European research network appointment at the University of Oxford from October 2001 to November 2003; and Fellow at CERN from January 2004 to December 2005.

Ramón y Cajal contract at the University of Valencia from December 2005 to December 2008. Associate Professor at the University of Valencia from December 2008 to October 2025. Full Professor since November 2025.

Supervision of five PhD theses.