"Más ágil que una tortuga,

más fuerte que un ratón,

más noble que una lechuga,

su escudo es un corazón!"

(Chapulín Colorado)

["More agile than a turtle,

stronger than a mouse,

nobler than a lettuce,

his shield is a heart!"]

(Chapulín Colorado)

Here is a brief summary of my education and work thus far. You'll find my complete CV here.

Current Position

Posdoctoral Research Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015-????)

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Janet Conrad's group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory of Nuclear Sciences (LNS) and an honorary fellow of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). My work is divided between IceCube analyses searching for new neutrino physics and particle physics phenomenology.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics

University of Wisconsin at Madison (2012-2015)

I did my doctoral work under the supervision of Francis Halzen on new physics with atmospheric neutrinos. I looked for new phenomena in the IceCube atmospheric neutrino spectrum. Among my Ph.D works I revisited the high energy neutrino cross section in the perturbative QCD framework and constructed a parametrization of the ultra high energy neutrino cross section using the dipole formalism, see this. I also studied the problem of neutrino oscillations with non-coherent interactions and developed a software frame work to solve this problems called SQuIDS. Moreover I used this technique in  three new physics scenarios: sterile neutrinos, non-standard interactions, Lorentz violation. Additionally, I investigated the  effect of Lorentz violation in the astrophysical flavor ratio

 

The bulk work of my Ph.D. was the IceCube-86 2011 sterile neutrino search. We found no significant evidence for an eV-sterile neutrino and placed strong limits in the active-sterile mixing angle improving constrains from muon neutrino disappearance, see this.

Master and Bachelor in Physics

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2004-2012)

I completed my undergraduate degree in physics at the Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) where I performed my undergrad thesis work with Desiderio Vasquez on chaos on chemical fronts subjected to a Poiseuille flow. During my last semesters at PUCP and my masters studies I joined PUCP high energy physics group lead by Alberto Gago. Within Alberto's group I worked on neutrino theory and phenomenology culminating on a thesis titled física de neutrinos de fuentes astronómicas y terrestres (physics of neutrinos from astronomical and terrestrial sources).

 

Throughout my education, I earned scholarships for outstanding performance in physics, which enable me to finish my undergraduate and graduate studies in physics at PUCP.

Other important places in my formation

Fermilab Theory Group Latin-American Fellow

Fermilab (2011)

Fermilab Theory Group Latin-American Fellow in 2011. Supervised by program organizer Marcela Carena and mentored by Joachim Kopp. On the six month stage I worked on the effects of eV scale sterile neutrinos on the IceCube dark matter bounds from the Sun, see this.

Scholarship at IMPA

IMPA (Summers of 2008 and 2009)

Obtained scholarships to study at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro in the summers of 2008 and 2009. During these internships I took master and Ph.D. level classes on functional analysis and stochastic processes.