“la Caixa” fellowships – SO CENTER OF EXCELENCE

The Severo Ochoa Programme brings to the IFT the privilege of serving as the scientific host of the prestigious “la Caixa” Fellowships. Together with a number of other institutes of excellence in Spain and Portugal, “la Caixa” INPhINIT PhD fellows, as well as “la Caixa” Junior Leader postdoctoral fellows, have the opportunity of carrying out their projects in the stimulating environment of IFT.

“la Caixa” Junior Leaders

Rafael Alves Batista

Rafael did the PhD in Hamburg (Germany) and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (UK), the University of São Paulo (Brazil), and a Radboud Excellence Fellow at the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. Rafael was Junior Leader Fellow at the IFT from 2021 until February 2024. He is currently a Junior Professor Chair at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris at the Sorbonne Université, in France. His main research interests are multimessenger astroparticle physics, cosmic magnetic fields, indirect dark matter searches, structure formation, and astrobiology.

Stefano Gariazzo

stefano.gariazzo@gmail.com

Stefano did the PhD in Turin (Italy) and after that he moved to IFIC in Valencia, were he hold a Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación contract and a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship within the COFUND project Fellini. Stefano is currently Junior Leader Fellow at the IFT. His main research interests are neutrinos, especially how they impact the evolution of the universe since their decoupling and until today, and statistical methods for phenomenological studies.