I am Marco Ayala. I have worked in different areas of Physics, with the objective of learning and developing diferent areas of science and technology. One of my first inclusions was in Solid State Physics, in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, obtaining three papers, and participating in some international congresses, all this in more than three years of my B.A. formation. The second inclusion occurred in my M. Sc. in Statistical Physics, in which I developed skills in the simulation of Brownian Dynamics, programming in Fortran, and using parallel computing techniques.

I am a former Ph.D. student from Cinvestav in High Energy Physics Group, had as advisor Professor Luis Manuel Montaño Zetina, who is part of the DUNE collaboration. I have taken three courses in HEP and eleven mini-courses held by invited speakers. The project of my Ph.D. thesis was photosensors and data analysis for high energy physics experiments. 

Nowdays I am postdoctoral researcher at SAPHIR-UNAB in Santiago, Chile. I participate in the developement of new detectors for the NA64 and SND experiments at CERN. Also, I participate in the construction of hodoscopes for the SWGO project, a new observatory that will be hosted by Chile in Atacama.

My Ph.D. research projects:

• sub-GeV dark matter searches, MINERvA (FERMILAB)

• Photosensors for DUNE, X-ARAPUCA (LAB LEPTONS - UNICAMP)

• Trigger sub-systems based on plastic scintillator coupled to SiPM, Barrel detector counters of the BM@N and Beam monitoring detectors for MPD (JINR)

Academic genealogy:

• Dietrich Wegener (KIT) 

  • Gerardo Herrera (Dortmund U.)

    • Luis Montaño (Cinvestav)

      • Me (Cinvestav)