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Prize

Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards

November 15, 2023

Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards

New Member

New Member in the Theory Division

November 13, 2023

Clara Murgui joins the Theory Division as a Beatriz de Galindo Junior Researcher.

New Member

New Member in the Theory group

November 1, 2023

Juan Sebastián Valbuena has just joined the Theory group as Postdoc researcher.

New Member

New Member in the Cosmology group

November 1, 2023

Martine Lokken has just joined the Observational Cosmology group as Postdoc researcher.

Instrumentation

T2K ND280 Upgrade Milestone: Cosmic Tracks Recorded as New Detectors Installed

October 18, 2023

The T2K ND280 Upgrade project achieved a significant milestone as the first of the new Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) recorded cosmic tracks inside the ND280 pit.

Instrumentation

QCT group Milestone: Successful Control of Flux Qubits

October 18, 2023

Researchers at the QCT group have achieved precise control over flux qubits, a crucial component for quantum annealing.

Instrumentation

Ongoing HGTD Testbeam Campaign Pioneers ALTIROC3 Module Prototypes in ATLAS Detector Upgrade

October 18, 2023

The High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) testbeam campaign is currently underway at the electron beam line in DESY, Hamburg, representing a significant step in the ATLAS detector’s HGTD upgrade.

Patents

Three new IFAE patents

October 9, 2023

IFAE filed a new medical imaging technology patent application: “Proton CT System with Improved Proton Energy Detector” and a patent application was granted named “Devices, Systems, and Methods for Mammography with a Detector Having Reduced Dimensions.” The third is a PET technology based new patent application filed in the European Patent Office.

New Member

New Member in the Cosmology group

October 4, 2023

Laura Casas has just joined IFAE as a PhD student in the Observational Cosmology Group.