Aran Garcia-Bellido
Associate Professor of Physics
PhD, Royal Holloway University London, 2002
- Office Location
- 406 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3422
- Web Address
- Website
Biography
Professor Garcia-Bellido joined Rochester from a postdoctoral research position at the University of Washington where he was best known for leading the group that discovered the production of top quarks via the weak interaction. He received his undergraduate degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and his doctoral degree from Royal Holloway University of London.
In may of 2011, Garcia-Bellido was awarded the prestigious DOE early career award.
Research Overview
Professor Garcia-Bellido studies the properties and interactions of the fundamental building blocks of matter. His research is primarily conducted at the Large Hadron Collier at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on the study of the production of new states of matter using the world's highest energy proton beams. In particular, he is working on searches for new heavy particles that could explain dark matter, and in precision studies of the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle.
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Research Interests
- experimental elementary-particle physics