Professional experience:
CV summary:
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Experimental particle physicist. Member of the ATLAS international scientific collaboration of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (largest particle physics laboratory in the world) since 2007
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Publications: ~1200 (most of them Q1/Q2), total number of citations 83k, hScopus 131
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Four research awards for young scientists: i) Premios a la Investigación L'Oréal-Unesco 'For Women in Science' 2023-24 (edición XVIII); ii) XV Premio científico-técnico de la Ciudad de Algemesí 2020 Valencia, Spain; iii) Premio de Física Real Sociedad Española de Física - Fundación BBVA: Investigador Novel en Física Experimental 2018 (young scientist award, Spanish Royal Physics Society) ceremony; iv) Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award 2018, BNL, New York, United States
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Several prestigious (post-doctoral) fellowships: Ramón y Cajal (since 2021), BBVA Leonardo (2022-23), SEJIGENT (2020-22), Junior Leader (2019-21), CERN research fellow (2017-19)
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Two periods of 6-years on research work (sexenios) recognized by CNEAI and I3 certificate
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Evaluator of competitive research projects/grants, member of various scientific committees
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Coordinator of several research groups and supervisor of more than 30 PhD, MSc or BSc thesis
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More than 50 talks at international conferences, colloquiums and seminars
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Research lines (UNESCO codes: 2208.05-2208.07): i) Data analysis: study of the elementary constituents of matter in high-energy collisions produced in particle accelerators (Standard Model measurements & new physics searches); ii) Global interpretations in terms of Effective Field Theories; iii) Monte-Carlo event generators for simulation of QCD processes at hadron colliders; iv) Anomaly detection using unsupervised machine learning; v) Detector development and R&D: characterization of silicon modules; vi) Software validation: validation of tracking algorithms
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Five convenership positions in the ATLAS Collaboration or LHC working groups: ATLAS Higgs-Top (2021-23, 100 people), LHC Higgs ttH (2017-21, 50 p), ATLAS Physics Modelling - Top Processes (2018-20, 40 p), ATLAS Top quark properties (2016-18, 90 p), ATLAS MCvalidation (2015-16, 30 p)
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Committees: i) member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Fund. Gadea Ciencia, ii) jury of 2022 RSEF-BBVA Physics Awards, iii) evaluator of prestigious research projects from BBVA Foundation (Fundamentos and Leonardo), EU MSCA grants and La Caixa, iv) jury of PhD defenses
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Editorial board of the Journal of the Spanish Physics Society (REF), Associated Editor of Frontiers in Big Data, referee of journals European Physical Journal C and Letters in High Energy Physics
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Coordinator of 2nd course of Degree in Physics, Double Degree in Physics-Mathematics and Double Degree in Physics-Chemistry at UV; member of the Academic Commission and Faculty Board
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Coordinator of the Young Scientists Office (OJI) at IFIC institute (since 2021)
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Outreach: CERN official guide; tutor in CERN international masterclasses; science fairs; mentor in various mentoring programs (UVshadowing, #MagnIFICa, CSIC-CAMINO and Supernova Foundation); activities for 11-F day; member of the project “Proyecto Meitner” and collaborator with “Girls4STEM”, funded by FECYT; biography in Més dones valencianes que han fet història book from Bromera Editions (round table); interviews; press XLsemanal and El País; outreach talks ATLAS Physics Live (2.2k visits) and Vocaciones científicas (33k visits); selected for the website cientificas e innovadoras.
Publications and conference notes (last 10 years):
- ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of quantum entanglement in top-quark pairs using the ATLAS detector, Nature volume 633, pages 542–547 (2024)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Search for new particles in final states with a boosted top quark and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 05 (2024) 263
- M. Moreno Llácer and M. Vos, The Higgs Boson and the Top Quark, LHEP-453, 2023 (pdf)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Search for single production of vector-like T quarks decaying into Ht or Zt in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP08(2023)153
- ATLAS Collaboration, Search for ttH/A-->tttt production in the multilepton final state in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP07(2023)203
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the properties of Higgs boson production at 13 TeV in the H-->yy channel using 139 fb-1 of pp collision data with the ATLAS experiment, JHEP07(2023)088
- ATLAS Collaboration, Search for leptonic charge asymmetry in ttW production in final states with three leptons at 13 TeV, JHEP07(2023)033
- V. Miralles, M. Miralles López, M. Moreno Llácer (contact editor), A. Peñuelas, M. Perelló and M. Vos, The top quark electroweak couplings after LHC Run 2, JHEP02(2022)032
- ATLAS Collaboration, A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery, Nature 607 - pages 52-59 (2022)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of Higgs boson decay into b-quarks in associated production with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, JHEP06(2022)97
- ATLAS Collaboration, Constraints on Higgs boson properties using H(-->WW*-->emununu)jj production in 36.1 fb-1 of 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 82 (2022) 622
- A. I. Morales López, M. Tórtola, M. Moreno Llácer et al., Un estudio de estereotipos de género en alumnado de secundaria en el marco de Proyecto Meitner, Cuestiones De género: De La Igualdad Y La Diferencia, 17, 73–94. 2022, https://doi.org/10.18002/cg.i17.7249
- M. Moreno Llácer, El quark top y su interacción con el bosón de Higgs, Revista Española de Física (Journal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society), volume 35-2 (2021), ISSN: 0213-862X
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of inclusive and differential production cross sections of a top-quark-antiquark pair in association with a Z boson at 13 TeV with ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 81(2021)737
- ATLAS Collaboration, Test of the universality of τ and μ lepton couplings in W-boson decays with the ATLAS detector, Nature Physics 17, 813–818 (2021)
- ATLAS Collaboration, CP Properties of Higgs Boson Interactions with Top Quarks in the ttH and tH Processes Using H->γγ with the ATLAS Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 061802 (2020)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the ttZ and ttW cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 072009
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of inclusive and differential fiducial cross-section of tty production in leptonic final states at 13 TeV in ATLAS, Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 382
- ATLAS Collaboration, Analysis of ttH and ttW production in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2019-045 (pdf)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector,Phys. Lett. B 784 (2018) 173 (pdf, ATLAS physics briefing, CERN press release)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 072003 (pdf, ATLAS physics briefing, CERN courier article)
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the W boson helicity fractions in tt events at 8 TeV in the lepton+jets channel with ATLAS, Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77:264
- ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and coupling strengths using pp collision data at 7 and 8 TeV in ATLAS, Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76:6
- ATLAS Collaboration, Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into bb in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Eur. Phys. J. C (2015)75:349
Recent public talks (last 5 years):
- "Bounds on top operators in the SMEFT from entanglement measurements (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at the workshop Quantum tests in collider physics, Merton College, Oxford, UK, October 2024
- "Higgs CP studies in ATLAS and CMS" (pdf)
Talk at the 12th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2023), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 2023
- "Single top and CKM measurements in ATLAS and CMS" (pdf)
Talk at the 12th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2023), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 2023
- "Outreach, Education and EDI: Engaging Youth - Education and Outreach for ages 0-18" (pdf)
Talk at 2023 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), Hamburg, Germany, August 2023
- "Top and Electroweak Physics: SMEFT fits for the top quark couplings at the LHC and future colliders" (pdf)
Talk at 2023 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), Hamburg, Germany, August 2023
- "Top quark electro-weak physics and the LHC-ILC interplay prospects (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at ILC Workshop on Potential Experiments (ILCX2021), October 2021
- "Electro-weak and top quark physics (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at the XLVIII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics (IMFP2021), Benasque (Huesca), Spain, September 2021
- "Review of ATLAS Higgs physics results (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at Higgs as a Probe for New Physics – Special Edition (HPNP2021), March 2021
- "Higgs boson and top quark interplay (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at Higgs and Effective Field Theory - HEFT2020, March 2020
- "Interplay between the Higgs boson and the top quark (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at Ultimate precision at hadron colliders (UPHC2019), Saclay, France, December 2019
- "Latest results of the Large Hadron Collider - reaching the tiniest signals (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at the XXXVII. Bienal de Física Española (Spanish Royal Physics Society), Zaragoza, Spain, July 2019
- "Rare top quark processes ATLAS & CMS (invited plenary)" (pdf)
Talk at the 7th Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics - LHCP2019, La Puebla, Mexico, May 2019
