Alex Pomarol (Barcelona, 1964) received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1991. He has been postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1991-1993), University of Pennsylvania (1993-1994) and CERN, Geneva (1994-1996, 1998-2000). He is currently Professor of Physics at the UAB. He has also been Scientific Associate at CERN (Geneva) in 2006 and 2015, member of the Scientific Committee of the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (Florence) 2008-2015, and at present is a member of the Particle Data Group (PDG). He has received the Distinció de la Generalitat award (2001) for young researchers and an ICREA Academia (2009 & 2014).

Research interests

His research aims to comprehend the fundamental laws of the elementary particles. After the discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva), his main interest has been trying to unravel the nature of the Higgs from the recent experimental data, and infer implications for the next LHC run, that just started fully exploring, for the first time, the TeV territory. He is interested in understanding what lies at TeV energies, as this can elucidate on many open questions in particle physics, such as the origin of particle masses and flavor mixings or the constituents of dark matter in our universe.

Keywords

Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical Physics