Profile (CV) of the research teaching staff

Luzón Marco, Gloria
Department: Departamento de Física Teórica
Field: Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias

Research Institute: INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CENTRO DE ASTROPARTÍCULAS Y FÍSICA DE ALTAS ENERGÍAS (CAPA)

UNESCO codes
  • Desintegración nuclear
  • Radioisótopos
  • Física nuclear experimental bajas energías
  • Partículas elementales
  • Física teórica altas energías

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/24
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/18
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/12
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/10. (2)
Academic position: Cated. Universidad

Academic position
  • Coordinadora de Máster Universitario en Física del Universo: Cosmología, Astrofísica, Partículas y Astropartículas
  • Subdirectora del Instituto Universitario de Investigación Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías (CAPA).
ORCID number: 0000-0002-5352-1884

Research interests
  • Universo
  • Fisica nx -- fisica nuclear experimental
  • Instrumentacion y detectores para experimentos en fisica, astrofisica, etc
 
           
I graduated in Physics from the University of Zaragoza in 1991, receiving the Extraordinary Award. In the same year I started my PhD in Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Manuel Asorey and Fernando Falceto, working on Yang–Mills theories, and completed it in 1995. After a first appointment as Assistant Lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid, I joined the University of Zaragoza. Between 1998 and 1999 I held a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford, where I worked on membrane theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence. I am currently Full Professor of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics at the University of Zaragoza and Deputy Director of CAPA (Center for Astroparticles and High Energy Physics).

Since 2000 I have been a member of the Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics Research Group (GIFNA), a research group officially recognized by the Government of Aragón, and have served as PI or Co-PI in two funding periods. My research focuses on dark matter searches (WIMPs and axions), neutrino physics, neutrinoless double beta decay, radiation detectors and underground physics. I have carried out this work at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory, where I am an associate member, and at CERN through national and international research projects and collaborations such as CAST, NEXT, TREX-DM and IAXO. I served as the University of Zaragoza deputy representative in the NEXT Collaboration and currently hold the same role within the IAXO Collaboration. I have been Co-PI of the projects PID2019-108122GB-C31 and PID2022-137268NB-C51, as well as of the BabyIAXO subproject within the Spanish Complementary Plans Programme.

I have been awarded five six-year research assessment periods ("sexenios") by the Spanish National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI). I have participated in 43 research projects, serving as Principal Investigator in three national and three regional projects. I am author or co-author of more than 165 scientific publications, with over 5,700 citations (h-index 37 in Web of Science and 46 in Google Scholar).

My teaching has covered undergraduate, Master's and PhD programmes. I previously coordinated the Master's Degree in Physics and Physical Technologies and currently coordinate the Master's Degree in Physics of the Universe at the University of Zaragoza. I have supervised DEA projects, Bachelor's and Master's theses, and have served on several academic evaluation and quality assurance committees.

Since 2008 I have been actively involved in science outreach through public lectures, workshops and activities aimed at students and the general public, including Hands on CERN, the European Researchers' Night and Dark Matter Day. I also serve on the Advisory Committee of the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) as the representative of the University of Zaragoza.

Active in outreach: school visits, public talks, Open Days, Science Immersion Week, and organizer of “Hands on CERN,” European Researchers’ Night, and Dark Matter Day activities at CAPA.




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