Joaquim Matias awarded the ICREA Acadèmia 2024 from AGAUR and the IPPP Diva Award from UK
Professor Joaquim Matias from the Department of Physics has been awarded the ICREA Academia prize for the second time by AGAUR to intensify his research over the next 5 years. Simultaneously, he has received the IPPP DIVA Award in UK for distinguished visiting professors.
Joaquim Matias, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics of the UAB, has been awarded the ICREA Academia 2024, a distinction granted by AGAUR. The ICREA Academia program aims to encourage research excellence among permanent teaching and research staff at universities in Catalonia.
This is a research intensification program exclusively for university professors who are actively teaching and expanding their research activities. The program prioritizes identifying and stimulating professors with the highest potential for scientific growth. The award lasts for 5 years and, in addition to recognizing research activity and providing travel funds, it includes funding to reduce the teaching load of the researcher. Joaquim Matias was previously awarded the same prize in the 2018 call, also for a duration of 5 years.
Simultaneously, he has also been awarded the DIVA Award in UK. This award is part of the Distinguished Visiting Academic (DIVA) Program organized by the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University. The goal is to support visits from leading international researchers to foster advanced phenomenological studies in UK universities, in this case at Imperial College of London.
His theoretical work focuses on the search of the fundamental theory beyond the Standard Model of particles, studying what is known as Flavor Physics, particularly B meson decays observed at CERN and B meson factories such as Belle and Belle-II in Japan.