Science.
Very high energy gamma-ray emission from pulsars.
Instruments.
Six of the eleven Cherenkov telescopes currently in operation.
Expertise.
Develop, test, commission scientific instruments, and do science with them.
Very high energy gamma-ray emission from pulsars.
Six of the eleven Cherenkov telescopes currently in operation.
Develop, test, commission scientific instruments, and do science with them.
In 2010 I helped secure the detection and measure the phase-resolved spectrum of the pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar up to 400 GeV. In 2014 I helped detect a significant pulsed signal from the Vela pulsar with an average event energy of around 20 GeV using the H.E.S.S.-II 28m telescope. Crab and Vela are the only two pulsars detected so far by Cherenkov telescopes.
During my Ph.D. at IFAE I have been very actively involved in software/hardware work for the MAGIC camera and readout upgrade (2011-2012). My main tasks were to monitor the performance of the new readout system, to maintain the central control software for the twin telescope system, and to help in the commissioning in general.
Between 2013 and 2017 I was the technical coordinator of the H.E.S.S.-I camera upgrade. I coordinated a team of developers and engineers, with whom I designed, tested, deployed and commissioned four new cameras for the 12-m H.E.S.S.-I telescopes. These cameras employ many innovative technologies, most importantly the readout, based on the NECTAr chip, which is foreseen to be employed in the next generation of Cherenkov Telescopes.
Current experiments: I'm a member of H.E.S.S. and CTA.
Research interests: Very high energy gamma-ray emission from pulsars, detectors for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.
Selected publications:
Upgraded Cameras for the H.E.S.S. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes.
Press releases about my work:
IFAE press release "Gamma-ray twins strike back" about the MAGIC upgrade
MAGIC press release "The engine of the Crab nebula" about the Crab pulsar detection above 50 GeV
