Jaime Alvarez-Muniz

Associate Professor (Profesor Titular)

Department of Particle Physics

Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias (IGFAE)

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Spain

About me:

• Education:
  • B.S. (Licenciado en Fisica) - Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain - July 1994
  • Diploma Thesis (Tesina) - Univ. Santiago de Compostela - April 1996
  • PhD Astroparticle Physics (Tesis Doctoral) - Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain - June 1999

• Positions:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow - Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA - 1999/2000
  • Postdoctoral Fellow - Univ. of Delaware, USA -2000/2002
  • Postdoctoral Fellow - Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain - 2003
  • Ramon y Cajal Researcher - Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain - 2004/2008
  • Profesor Contratado Doctor - Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain - 2009/2010
  • Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) - Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain - since Nov. 2010.

• Research interests & publications:
  • Detection of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Astrophysical Neutrinos:
    • With surface detector arrays (Pierre Auger Observatory) - (Selected Publications)
    • With coherent radiation in the MHz-GHz frequency range (BEACON, PUEO, ANITA, AERA experiments.)
  • Calculations of radio emission from ultra-energetic particle showers in:
    • Dense media (Selected publications)
    • Atmosphere (Selected publications)
  • Full list of publications from INSPIRE (here) & citation summary (here)
  • ORCID: 0000-0002-2367-0803
  • Researcher ID: H-1857-2015