Researcher Carlos Mariñas appointed deputy spokesperson of the Belle II experiment in Japan
Carlos Mariñas Pardo, researcher at the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC, UV-CSIC), has been appointed deputy spokesperson of the Belle II experiment, a large subatomic particle detector located at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan, which holds the world record for key collisions inside it in the search for new physics. The position will run until June 2027.
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With his recent appointment, Carlos Mariñas joins Florian Bernlocher (University of Bonn, Germany) and Kodai Matsuoka (KEK, Japan) on the leadership team that coordinates the Belle II Collaboration, made up of more than 1,000 researchers from 138 institutions in 28 countries, united by the common goal of discovering new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics — the theory describing the visible matter of the universe.
With a research career focused on the development of large-area DMAPS demonstrators for pixel detectors and their application to future experiments in particle physics, Carlos Mariñas previously served as deputy operations coordinator for Belle II since its launch in 2019. As technical coordinator of the experiment, he also led the installation of a new pixel detector and the upgrade of several sub-detectors during its shutdown between 2022 and 2023.
Now, in his role as deputy spokesperson, the CSIC researcher at IFIC takes on a central role in the scientific and technical coordination of the collaboration, particularly in the operation and upgrade of the detector for its high-luminosity phase, planned for 2032.