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Jose Angel Hernando Morata obtained his physics degree (Licenciado en Físicas) at the Universidad de Zaragoza in 1992 and his PhD at the Universitat de València in 1997, working on neutrino oscillations using data from the NOMAD experiment. Afterwards he held a postdoctoral position at the University of California Santa Cruz (SCIPP), followed by positions at CERN as Research Fellow and Research Staff from 2002 to 2009. He became associate professor (Profesor Titular) at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) and is a researcher at the Instituto Gallego de Física de Altas Energías (IGFAE). He is an experimental particle physicist with broad expertise in scientific software and detector reconstruction. His main research interest is the search for extremely rare phenomena at the frontier of particle physics. He is a member of the NEXT collaboration, which operates a 100-kg high-pressure gaseous xenon time projection chamber at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain) searching for neutrinoless double beta decay — a process whose observation would demonstrate that the neutrino is its own antiparticle, with profound implications in particle physics and cosmology. He serves as software coordinator of NEXT and is a member of its steering committee. He is also a member of the Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration, a next-generation neutrino observatory under construction in Japan aimed at precision measurements of neutrino oscillations and CP violation in the lepton sector, where he is involved in the design of calibration sources. He has previously worked in the DELPHI, NOMAD, and LHCb collaborations, and contributed to the design of the FERMI gamma-ray telescope. He leads the Smart@HEP research group at USC, whose goal is the search for new physics by applying advanced deep learning techniques to the analysis of experimental data in particle physics.
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