Marc Andrés, PhD student in the GW group, has been selected in the [2022 Nova 111 Student List in Spain. ](https://www.novatalent.com/111/spain/student-list/2022)

The first field cage of the time projections chambers that will be installed in the near detector of T2K have arrived at CERN.

Deep Detection was featured in the Business Section of La Vanguardia on Sunday 27, February 2022.

The Port of Scientific Information (PIC) is included in the new map of the Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) of Spain, as a node of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES). This milestone will open up new avenues for establishing collaborations with research groups facing data analysis challenges.

The Summer Fellowship Programme at IFAE is an educational activity targeted for undergraduate physics students. The call for the 2022 edition is now [open](https://summerfellowships.ifae.es/).

IFAE Theory Group member Diego Blas, in collaboration with Alexander Jenkins from UCL, propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimeter, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect. The research, which could pave the way for the detection of signals from the early universe, was published recently in Physical Review Letters.

Andreu Font Ribera, researcher in the Observational Cosmology Group at IFAE, has been awarded the prestigious “Consolidator Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC). The project COSMO-LYA will allow Andreu and his team to use a large dataset of distant quasars to study some of the mysteries of our Universe: dark energy, inflation, and the mass of neutrinos.

Yago Cordón just joined the COVID group to contribute to the project of simulation of COVID-19 spread in Catalunya.

IFAE´s ATLAS pixels group has achieved a new milestone towards the ATLAS ITk Pixel module production.

Researchers from the MAGIC collaboration, have detected very high-energy gamma rays from a recurrent nova in the Milky Way. The results of these observations and the new discoveries about these stellar explosions have been published on April 14 in an article in the journal Nature Astronomy.

“[High Quality QCD Axion at Gravitational Wave Observatories](https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.141101)” by Ricardo Z. Ferreira, O. Pujolas and collaborators has been published at Physical Review Letters.

On Monday 3, May 2022 the TV program “El Cazador de cerebros” broadcasted in La2 of the Spanish National Television. The chapter focused on young students and had the title “Los Cerebros del Futuro”.