Missions of the laboratory

• EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL RESEARCH ON NUCLEAR, PARTICLE AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS.

• REALTED INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT

• APPLICATIONS ON MEDICAL PHYSICS AS WELL AS ANY OTHER FIELD OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

ACTIONS

Fundamental Research:

• Experimental Particle Physics with Accelerators

• Experimental Astroparticle Physics

• Experimental Neutrino Physics

• Particle Physics Phenomenology

• High-Energy Theoretical physics

• Mathematical Physics

• Many-Body and Nuclear Theoretical Physics

• QCD and Strong Interaction Theoretical Physics

• Astroparticle and Cosmology Theoretical Physics

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Applied Research:

• GRID and e-Science computing

• Medical Physics

• Accelerator Development

• BIG data applications

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Innovation activities:

• Development of Advance Electronics for Measurement and Applications

• Development of instrumentation

• Development of advanced semiconductor detectors based on Silicon and Germanium

• Development and construction of detectors based on scintillator materials

• Development of instrumentation for medical imaging and image science

• Accelerator Design

• BIG Data management

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Technology Transfer:

• Patents In the area of medical devices:

– WO2014020202A1 (Device and method for obtaining densitometric images of objects by combination of X-ray systems and depth sensing cameras)

– PCT/ES2016/070216 (Device to extract 3D information from X-ray images and details of its calibration protocol)

• Licensing:

– In collaboration with the company ALIBAVA SYSTEMS, S.L. (spin-off of CSIC) and CNM-IMB, a system to teach students the

principles of operation of silicon detectors, the Alibava Educational System (EASY), License KNOW HOW 20160150.

– BIG data Management of electricity losses for distribution companies.

• Technologies to be transferred

– Development and implementation of a novel gamma-ray imaging spectrometer for low- and medium-level radioactive waste

management

• Valorization/selling (to other labs or to industry) of products developed for our physics:

– Development and production of an FADC mezzanine 14 bits/250 Ms/s for Highresolution Spectroscopy measurements in the field on Nuclear Physics

KEY DATA (2016)

• Staff: Scientific Staff: 182, Postdoctoral researchers: 41, PhD Students: 63

• Scientific Production (2015): 400 articles in indexed journals, 12 PhD theses with IFIC supervisors

342 presentations at international Conferences

– Development of the Control Card EDA-02482 used by 2 projects in several European Laboratories

Services:

• Training courses

• Workshops

• Expertises

Dr. Francisco Javier Albiol Colomer
Mail: Kiko.Albiol@ific.uv.es