Academic Biography

My journey in Particle Physics began during my undergraduate studies in Physics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) under the supervision of Professor Marco A. Diaz. By the end of my Bachelor's degree I realised that this field is key to pursuit the ultimate task of understanding the true fundamental laws of our Universe. This interest has lead the international community of physicists to built giant accelerators and detectors, designed to seek for new phenomena and explore the unknown. During my Master's degree I joined the ATLAS collaboration, which is one of the main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In 2013 I started a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.

During my PhD I did research in both theory and experiment. I started my PhD as an experimentalist, interested in models with new, long-lived massive particles that could be detected by ATLAS.  I also became a member of the Cambridge Phenomenology Working Group in 2014, where I discovered that my research motivations come from the theoretical side, from an interest in understanding the fundamental constituents of Nature and what are the laws dictating their behaviour. This is why I switched to a theoretical PhD in Particle Physics. I remain very interested in the connexion with experiment and how we can test new theories that address outstanding unknowns, such as the origin of Neutrino Masses or the nature of Dark Matter. 

I gained my PhD in October 2017 at the Cavendish Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Nick Barlow and Professor Andy Parker. I held a postdoctoral position with the High Energy Physics Phenomenology group at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, where I worked under the supervision of Professor Cheng-Wei Chiang.  I was also postdoc at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, supervised by Professor Marco A. Diaz. I am now Assistant Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile.