Dr. Carlos Vázquez Sierra

Scientific advisor

Carlos graduated in 2012 from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), completed a master’s degree in Particle Physics in 2013, and obtained his Ph.D. cum laude with international mention in Nuclear and Particle Physics in 2016, all from USC as well. Since 2012, he has been a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN, working as an experimental particle physicist. Currently, Carlos is a postdoctoral researcher under the “María Zambrano” program at USC and at the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE), since December 2022. Previously, he worked as a Senior Research Experimental Fellow at CERN from 2020 to 2022. He was also selected as a postdoctoral researcher at the Nikhef Institute of Subatomic Physics in the Netherlands from 2017 to 2020.

Currently, Carlos focuses his research on dark matter searches, as well as measurements related to the Higgs boson. He has also been involved in computing and software development within LHCb, as well as in the study of variational autoencoders and their potential implementation in LHCb’s preselection systems, aiming to search for new physics by detecting anomalies in the data recorded by the detector.

Carlos is the author of more than 570 publications as a member of LHCb and author of more than 10 publications outside of LHCb, some of which have received over 200 citations. He has been invited to present his work at multiple high-level conferences and workshops, also coordinating some of these events. Throughout his career, he has been part of two international projects (with a budget exceeding €1M) and one Spanish national project. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a national project and has served as a reviewer for scientific journals such as EPJC, PRD, and JHEP.