I completed my PhD at USC in the DIRAC experiment with a thesis (2001) on the measurement of the pionium (the π+π- hydrogen-like atom) lifetime. That year I joined the DIRAC group of Basel University as a research associate, also in DIRAC. In that experiment I was a main contributor to the first determination of pionium lifetime. This measurement is an important test of low energy QCD predictions.
From March 2004 to August 2010 I was a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN in two different periods. Initially I was a CERN research fellow working in high-level trigger (HLT) algorithms. I am the author of the calorimeter cluster and electron and photon selection. These algorithms were a cornerstone of channels with electrons and photons in its final state, such as the Higgs boson discovery golden channels. In June 2006, I joined, as research associate, the High Energy Experimental Physics group at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. There, I focused into the selection and reconstruction of high transverse momentum jets. I was responsible of the third level trigger software and co-responsible for the second level trigger. With respect to data analysis in ATLAS, I worked in the search of Higgs decays into a pair b anti-b in Higgs produced via vector boson fusion.
After a brief experience in industry I returned to USC, in January 2011, to work in Charmless Vector meson decays at the LHCb experiment. In December 2011 I got an assistant professorship at USC. In May 2021 I was promoted to Profesor Titular, which is my present position. At LHCb I worked in charmless decays for several years, supervising two PhDs and being the proponent and contact author of several publications. Presently I am deeply involved in the IGFAE experimental effort in the studies of proton Ion collisions and QCD at LHCb. I am also studying possible Lepton Flavor Universality violations.