2010–2013Science
The Higgs discovery and my doctorate
Co-author of the ATLAS Higgs discovery paper, with doctoral research on Higgs-like resonances at the Large Hadron Collider.
Science
Start with
the question.
Particle physics, scientific computing, and research in progress. The explanations come first; the papers, tools, and evidence are close by.
My scientific work spans electromagnetic momentum and relativity with Gianfranco Spavieri, ATLAS research and the Higgs discovery, and the computing and open data tools that extend who can participate in physics.
2016–2020Science
Making ATLAS data usable
Real collision data, accessible software, and the work of opening a scientific experiment to learners.
2004–2019Science
Physics and teaching in Mérida
A thesis with Gianfranco Spavieri, three teaching appointments at Universidad de Los Andes and a research collaboration that continued beyond the degree.
2008–2009Science
HELEN Fellowship · LPNHE, Paris
From Mérida to LPNHE in Paris: a ten-month HELEN fellowship, ATLAS reconstruction research and a European–Latin American scientific network.
2016–Community
Physics Without Frontiers
Co-leading ICTP’s work in the Americas: university programmes, research supervision and the relationships that turn students into collaborators.
2016–2026Work
The systems behind the work
At INAIT, I connect infrastructure, DevOps, AI and robotics enablement, operational governance and the practical work of keeping a technology company running.
2020–2023Science
LA-CoNGA physics
Helping build an Erasmus+ collaboration in advanced physics and open education, from programme design to teaching and CoAfina.
2026Science
Three small computers, one real experiment
A governed, bilingual remote computing system for cosmic-ray physics in Mérida, Venezuela, built on hardware most people would throw away.
2026Science
Neural Material Memory
A research programme about history-dependent responses, competing explanations and what another measurement could tell us.
Research in development2019–2026Science
Transversal computing for Latin American science
One idea followed for six years: shared computing services across experiments, from a 2020 proposal to a Briefing Book chapter, an empirical case on Zenodo and a seat on the strategy committee.
2026Science
Teaching scientific computing in Santiago
Tools, techniques and software design at the 2026 CERN School of Computing in Latin America.
2016Community
Physics classes across an ocean
CEVALE2VE: Venezuelan physicists abroad teaching students at home by videoconference, and what grew out of it.
2018Community
A thesis defence across three countries
A student in Argentina, an examining committee in Caracas, and her supervisor in Geneva.
2026Work
A talk whose exercises people keep
From open data to shared knowledge: computing, automation and AI for research and teaching, for the Instituto de Ingeniería in Venezuela.
2017–2019Work
BIHM: connecting books and objects
A digital route through medical history, linking the books and objects held by a Lausanne institution.
On the record
Selected publications
A few direct routes into the published work and proposals.
Journal article · 2006Crucial Test of Relativity Theory: Open Currents and Magnetic Model of Light
Journal article · 2008Electromagnetic momentum in frontiers of modern physics
Journal article · 2009Momento electromagnético, efectos cuánticos y la masa del fotón
Journal article · 2012ATLAS Higgs discovery paper
Doctoral thesis · 2013Doctoral thesis · Higgs-like resonance searches
Journal article · 2018Thought experiment discriminating special relativity from preferred frame theories
Reply · 2018Reply to Comment on ‘Thought Experiment discriminating special relativity from preferred frame theories’
Journal article · 2019Testing Absolute vs Relative Simultaneity with the Spin-orbit Interaction and the Sagnac Effect
Journal article · 2019Light propagation and local speed in the linear Sagnac effect
Journal article · 2020Designing a New Infrastructure for ATLAS Online Web Services
Research infrastructure proposal · 2021Scientific computing strategies for Latin America
Journal article · 2026Health for All · a bilingual Wikipedia editathon
As a named author
Papers and proceedings with my name on the author line
INSPIRE records that are not collaboration-wide publications: the work where I wrote, analysed or built the thing myself, with co-authors I can name.
2026
2603.06291Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book 2025
2603.06291Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book 2025
2021
2104.06852Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book
2104.06852Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book
2021 · Comput.Softw.Big Sci.
10.1007/s41781-021-00069-9 · 2103.00659Software Training in HEP
10.1007/s41781-021-00069-9 · 2103.00659Software Training in HEP
2020
10.5281/zenodo.4082137 · 2010.05102Software Sustainability & High Energy Physics
10.5281/zenodo.4082137 · 2010.05102Software Sustainability & High Energy Physics
2020 · PoS
10.22323/1.372.0040Large-Scale Scientific endeavours: the production and dissemination of advance computer sciences knowledge
10.22323/1.372.0040Large-Scale Scientific endeavours: the production and dissemination of advance computer sciences knowledge
2020 · EPJ Web Conf.
10.1051/epjconf/202024507030Designing a New Infrastructure for ATLAS Online Web Services
10.1051/epjconf/202024507030Designing a New Infrastructure for ATLAS Online Web Services
2020 · Phys.Dark Univ.
10.1016/j.dark.2019.100371 · 1507.00966Dark Matter benchmark models for early LHC Run-2 Searches: Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum
10.1016/j.dark.2019.100371 · 1507.00966Dark Matter benchmark models for early LHC Run-2 Searches: Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum
2019 · EPJ Web Conf.
10.1051/epjconf/201921408022Integrated automation for configuration management and operations in the ATLAS online computing farm
10.1051/epjconf/201921408022Integrated automation for configuration management and operations in the ATLAS online computing farm
2015 · J.Phys.Conf.Ser.
10.1088/1742-6596/664/6/062012The ATLAS Software Installation System v2: a highly available system to install and validate Grid and Cloud sites via Panda
10.1088/1742-6596/664/6/062012The ATLAS Software Installation System v2: a highly available system to install and validate Grid and Cloud sites via Panda
2015 · J.Phys.Conf.Ser.
10.1088/1742-6596/664/7/072043Exploring JavaScript and ROOT technologies to create Web-based ATLAS analysis and monitoring tools
10.1088/1742-6596/664/7/072043Exploring JavaScript and ROOT technologies to create Web-based ATLAS analysis and monitoring tools
2014 · J.Phys.Conf.Ser.
10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032102PROOF-based analysis on the ATLAS Grid facilities: first experience with the PoD/PanDa plugin
10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032102PROOF-based analysis on the ATLAS Grid facilities: first experience with the PoD/PanDa plugin
2013
10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/9434Search for Higgs-like resonances in the ZZ → l±l±qq̄ decay channel with the ATLAS experiment at LHC
10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/9434Search for Higgs-like resonances in the ZZ → l±l±qq̄ decay channel with the ATLAS experiment at LHC
The complete record
1,214 collaboration publications
As a member of the ATLAS Collaboration I am one of the signing authors of every ATLAS paper of those years. They are real, they are mine to cite, and they belong in a catalogue of their own rather than on this page.
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