Hugo Natal Da Luz, Ph.D.
Personal data
Detector Physicist, specialised in gaseous detectors, namely Micropattern Gaseous Detectors. He is a member of the Van de Graaff group at the IEAP.
One of his main projects consists on the construction of a spectrometer for the measurement of angular correlations between electrons and positrons and tjeir energy, emitted from internal pair creations in excited nuclei. The ultimate goal of this experiment is to confirm or disprove the ATOMKI anomaly, also known as the X17 problem.
He is currently working on detector R&D, namely in the implementation of ASICs of the Timepix family as pixellated readout of gaseous detectors.
He is the institute's team leader for CERN's DRD1 collaboration (detector research and development - gaseous detectors).
Professional career
- 4/2019–today: Research Scientist at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 11/2016–03/2019: Research Fellow at the High Energy Physics and Instrumentation Center at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Principal Researcher of a project related to the development of Micropattern Gaseous Detectors.
- 02/2014–10/2016: Post Doctoral fellow at the High Energy Physics and Instrumentation Center at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
- 02/2010–01/2014: Post Doctoral fellow in the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra.
Academic degrees
- 01/2010 Ph.D. — University of Aveiro, Portugal. Thesis: Development of X-ray and neutron imaging detectors based on Micro-Hole & Strip Plates.
- 06/2004 Master of Science — Leipzig University, Germany. Thesis: Determination of metalto-protein stoichiometries in metalloproteins by Particle Induced X-ray Emission.
- 07/2000 Graduation (Licenciatura) in Physical Engineering — University of Coimbra, Portugal. Final project: Algorithms for Čerenkov ring reconstruction for the Hera-b RICH.