Short version - Instituto de Física Corpuscular

Short version - Instituto de Física Corpuscular

Curriculum Vitae - MICHEL SOREL
Personal Data:
Address
IFIC – Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular
Edificio Institutos de Investigacion, Apartado de Correos 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain
Phone: +34.96.9543722; Fax: +34.96.3543488; Email: [email protected]
Birth
February 28, 1974, Sorengo, Switzerland
Citizenship
Luxembourg
Education:
2001-2005
1999-2001
1998
1992-1998
Columbia University (USA), Ph.D., High Energy Physics
Columbia University (USA), M.Sc., Physics
Bologna University (Italy), Specialization Course, Astroparticle Physics
Bologna University (Italy), Diploma di Laurea cum laude, Astroparticle Physics
Academic and Professional Positions:
2008-present CSIC Ramon y Cajal Researcher, IFIC, Valencia (Spain)
2008-2008
CSIC JAE-DOC Fellow, IFIC, Valencia (Spain)
2005-2008
U. of Valencia Postdoctoral Research Associate, IFIC, Valencia (Spain)
2001-2005
Columbia U. Research Assistant, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia (USA)
1999-2001
Columbia U. Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York (USA)
1998-1999
Post-graduate Fellow of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Bologna (Italy)
Participation in Research Projects:
2013-2014
Construction of the NEXT experiment at the LSC in Canfranc, Programa Nacional Fisica,
Spanish MINECO (FIS2012-37947-C04-01)
2012-2014
Participation in the T2K experiment, Programa Nacional Fisica de Particulas, Spanish MINECO
(FPA2011-29823-C02-01)
2011-2014
Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification,
Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations, LAGUNA-LBNO FP7 Research
Infrastructure Design Study Grant (FP7-INFRA-2011-1)
2010-2012
Experimental Neutrino Physics at IFIC, Programa Nacional Fisica de Particulas, Spanish
MICINN (FPA2009-13697-C04-04)
2008-2013
Canfranc Underground Physics (CUP), Programa Consolider – Ingenio 2010, Spanish MICINN
(CSD2008-0037)
2006-2009
Participation in the T2K and NEMO/Super-NEMO experiments T2K, Programa Nacional Fisica
de Particulas, Spanish MEC (FPA2006-12120-C03-01)
2005-2007
Neutrinos as a Probe to Physics Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics, Marie Curie
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EIF Grant within the 6 European Community Framework Program (MEIF-CT-2005- 009487)
2003-2006
Study of neutrino oscillations with the K2K experiment, Programa Nacional Fisica de Particulas,
Spanish MEC (FPA2003-06921-C02-02)
1999-2006
Experimental Physics Research Program at Columbia University/Nevis Laboratories, US
National Science Foundation (NSF-PHY-9813383, NSF-PHY-0098826, NSF-PHY-0500492)
Experiment Participation:
2008-present NEXT Collaboration (software and physics analysis coordinator, Steering Committee member)
2005-present SciBooNE Collaboration (physics analysis co-coordinator, offline software coordinator, Spain
Executive Committee representative)
2005-present T2K Collaboration
2004-2009
K2K Collaboration (SciBar analysis group co-convener)
2004-2009
HARP Collaboration
2000-2011
MiniBooNE Collaboration
Other Physics Collaborations:
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Super-NEMO Experiment (2006-2007), BNL E910 Experiment (2000-2003), Detection of Ultra-High Energy
Cosmic Rays with Photovoltaic Cells (1997-1999), MACRO Experiment (1997-1999), CDF Experiment (1996)
Selected Publications:
• V. Alvarez et al. [NEXT Collaboration], "Ionization and scintillation response of high-pressure xenon gas
to alpha particles," JINST 8 (2013) P04025 [arXiv:1211.4508]
• J.J. Gomez Cadenas et al., "The search for neutrinoless double beta decay," Riv.Nuovo Cim. 35 (2012)
29-98 [arXiv:1109.5515]
• K. Abe et al. [T2K Collaboration], "Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Aceleratorproduced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam," Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 041801 [arXiv:1106.2822]
• K. Hiraide et al. [SciBooNE Collaboration], “Search for Charged Current Coherent Pion Production on
Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam,” Phys. Rev. D 78, 112004 (2008) [arXiv:0811.0369]
• A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE Collaboration], "The Neutrino Flux prediction at MiniBooNE,"
Phys. Rev. D79 (2009) 072002 [arXiv:0806.1449]
• A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE Collaboration], “A Search for electron neutrino appearance at the
Δm2 ~ 1 eV2 scale,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007) [arXiv:0704.1500]
• M.G. Catanesi et al. [HARP Collaboration], “Measurement of the production cross-section of positive
pions in the collision of 8.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium,” Eur. Phys. J. C52 (2007) [arXiv:hepex/0702024]
• M. H. Ahn et al. [K2K Collaboration], “Measurement of neutrino oscillation by the K2K experiment,” Phys.
Rev. D 74, 072003 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ex/0606032]
• M. Sorel, J. M. Conrad and M. H. Shaevitz, “A combined analysis of short-baseline neutrino experiments
in the (3+1) and (3+2) sterile neutrino oscillation hypotheses,” Phys. Rev. D 70, 073004 (2004)
[arXiv:hep-ph/0305255]
Selected Conference Talks:
2013 "The NEXT Experiment," Workshop on the Future of Neutrino Mass Measurements (nuMass 2013),
MIlan (Italy)
2011 "NEXT: Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC," XXXiX International Meeting on Fundamental Physics
(IMFP2011), Canfranc (Spain)
2010 "Low-Energy Neutrino Cross Sections With SciBooNE," PASCOS 2010, Valencia (Spain)
2008 “Results and Status from the HARP and MIPP Hadron Production Experiments,” Neutrino 2008,
Christchurch (New Zealand)
2007 “MiniBooNE: first results on the muon-to-electron neutrino oscillation search,” International Europhysics
Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2007), Manchester (United Kingdom)
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2007 “Overview of progress in neutrino scattering measurements,” 5 International Workshop on neutrinonucleus interactions in the few-GeV region (NuInt07), Batavia (USA)
2005 “MiniBooNE,” Fermilab Annual Usersʼ Meeting, Batavia (USA)
Professional Committees:
2007-2008
International Design Study of the neutrino factory, Physics working group
2005-2006
International Scoping Study of a future neutrino factory and superbeam facility, Physics working
group
2004
APS Neutrino Study, Superbeams working group
2001-2002
Fermilab GSA representative
Conference Organization:
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2012 8 International Workshop on neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few-GeV region (NuInt12, Scientific
Program Committee)
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2011 7 International Workshop on neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few-GeV region (NuInt11, Scientific
Program Committee)
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2009 9 International Workshop on neutrino factories, superbeams and betabeams (NuFact09, Scientific
Advisory Committee)
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2009 6 International Workshop on neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few-GeV region (NuInt09, Local
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2008
2007
2002
2001
Organizing Committee co-chair)
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8 International Workshop on neutrino factories, superbeams and betabeams (NuFact08, Local
Organizing Committee)
Workshop exploring potential and synergies of noble elements for underground physics (NEUS07)
Annual Conference of Fermilabʼs Graduate Student Association (New Perspectives 2002)
Fermilab linear collider physics lecture series
Fellowships and Awards:
2013 Awarded Research Quality Certification, I3 Program, Spanish MINECO
2008 Awarded Ramon y Cajal Fellowship
2008 Awarded JAE-DOC Fellowship
2007 Awarded Marie Curie ERG Grant
2004 Awarded Marie Curie EIF Fellowship
1998 Awarded INFN Post-graduate Fellowship
1998 Graduated cum laude (with honors), Bologna University
Teaching and Mentoring Experience:
2010-present Supervising research of Valencia U. Ph.D. student L. Serra on NEXT
2006-present Supervising research of Valencia U. Ph.D. student J. Catala on SciBooNE
2005-2010
Mentored research of Barcelona U. Ph.D. student J. Alcaraz on SciBooNE
2005-2009
Mentored research of Columbia U./MIT Ph.D. student G. Karagiorgi on neutrino phenomenology
2004-2008
Supervised research of Valencia U. Ph.D. student A. Tornero on K2K
2000-2001
Columbia U. Teaching Assistant, Elementary Particle Physics post-graduate course
1999-2000
Columbia U. Teaching Assistant, Physics Laboratory post-graduate course
Public Outreach Actvities:
• Interviewed for the "Neutrino physics: beta test" article, Nature magazine, 2012
• "Fisica de Neutrinos: los experimentos T2K y NEXT", talk given at U. Valencia (Spain), 2012
• Interviewed for the "Enredados con la fisica" radio program, Swing Radio, 2011
• “El neutrino”, talk given at Expociencia 2010, Valencia (Spain), 2010
• “El neutrino y la sombra de Ettore Majorana”, talk at the Science Museum of the City of Arts and
Sciences, Valencia (Spain), 2009
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