Members
Ernesto Arganda Carreras
Comunidad de Madrid Fellow at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)
Ernesto’s research interests are focused on the phenomenology of high energy physics (in particular Higgs physics, neutrino physics, top physics, dark matter, supersymmetry phenomenology, and collider physics), with an special dedication to the interplay between theory and experiments, in order to perform search strategies for physics beyond the standard model at particle colliders.
David G. Cerdeño
Beatriz Galindo Senior Fellow at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)
David is interested in Astroparticle Physics, Theory and Phenomenology of Dark Matter models Experimental Dark Matter searches (member of the SuperCDMS Collaboration) Elementary Particle Physics: Phenomenology of theories beyond the Standard Model (Supersymmetry and String Theory).
Esperanza López Manzanares
Professor at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)
Esperanza is interested in Quantum Information Theory combined with the traditional techniques based on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems. Also, she is interested in applying ML techniques to error mitigation in the present noisy quantum computers.
Savvas Nesseris
Científico Titular CSIC at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)
Savvas is mainly interested in studying modified gravity and dark energy models and confronting them with various probes including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Type Ia Supernovae (SnIa), Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and others, using Machine Learning and genetic algorithms. He is also an active member of the Euclid collaboration and of LISA and PAU.
Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde
Comunidad de Madrid Fellow at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)
Miguel’s current research is mainly focused on the search for dark matter with gamma rays and the analysis of N-body cosmological simulations. He is a member of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration (current coordinator of its dark matter science working group), a member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium (former member of its dark matter science working group), member of the DESI Collaboration, and former member of the MAGIC Collaboration.
Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra
Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra
Científico Titular CSIC at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT)
Juan Antonio uses ML to enhance the LHC sensitivity to new physics. He also investigates supervised / partially supervised / unsupervised anomaly detection methods as a tool to detect new physics at the LHC. Specifically, with the use of taggers for complex objects: multi-pronged jets, jets containing prompt non-hadronic objects, etc.