POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Pedro Urrejola

Postdoctoral researcher

Pedro Urrejola holds a degree in physics and a master's degree in theoretical physics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a PhD in experimental physics from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. In his professional life he has dedicated himself to both research and teaching.

Urrejola has been a physics and PSU teacher for high school courses and a basic science teacher for the Universidad Mayor, where he also worked as coordinator of the Physics Laboratory and coordinator of the physics line of the Mathematics, Physics and Statistics Nucleus. His teaching experience has led him to discover a variety of simple experiments and very useful tools to engage and motivate his students. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Saphir Millennium Institute, where he is looking for signals from the Higgs boson in final states including muons: this will allow a better understanding of the properties, behaviour and interactions of this boson.

His main line of research is experimental particle physics: he has carried out searches for supersymmetry by analysing data from the Atlas detector at the LHC. In addition, he participated in the upgrade of the first level of the Atlas calorimeter, developing and testing corrections to the jet energy and producing simulations of collisions at 14 TeV. He also has experience in studying the phenomenology of particle physics beyond the standard model.