C/ Jesús del Valle 24 1ºA
28004 Madrid
Phone: (+34) 636 865 892
Jesus.Puerta.Pelayo@cern.ch
PhD in Experimental Physics specialized in High Energy Particle Physics. Researcher in the Basic
Research Department at the Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological research
(CIEMAT) in Madrid. More than 10 years of experience in international particle accelerator experiments. Highly experienced in scientific outreach, group management and event organization.
Organization and team coordination
Abilities : Working groups coordination. Responsible of quality control processes and particle detector assembly. Member of several international scientific collaborations.
Experience : Deputy Technical Coordinator of the DT-CMS group between 2006 and 2010.
Responsible of DT detectors certification for the CMS experiment at CERN.
Member of the CMS experiment for the LHC accelerator (CERN) since 2000.
Member of the R&D collaboration CALICE for the future International Lineal
Collider since 2008.
Media relationships and outreach
Abilities
: Experienced in press relations. Regular outreach conferences speaker.
Experience : Spanish representative in the outreach comitee of the CMS experiment.
CIEMAT – CPAN link person for outreach affairs.
Organizer of numerous public events (exhibitions, conferences, masterclasses)
Data analysis and software development
Abilities : Programmer in multiple languages. Web applications developer.
Experience in analysis methods applied to particle physics.
Experience : Studies on new physics searches within the LEP accelerator. Computer simulations of particle detectors. Databases management. Development of several web tools (system monitoring, documental databases…).
Languages English: Very high level.
Italian : Very high level.
German : High level.
French : High level.
Spanish: Mother language.
Computing Extensive programming experience (C++, Fortran, Java, Javascript, Perl, Html...)
Advanced Linux user, Microsoft Office, Root, MySQL, PVSS…

2008-2011 Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT),
Madrid (Spain).
Position : Associate Researcher. Basic Research Department, Particle Physics Division.
Participation in the CMS and CALICE experiments.
2005-2007 European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland).
Position : Post-doctoral fellowship in applied Physics. CMM technical coordination group. CMS experiment for the LHC accelerator.
2004 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Bologna section (Italy)
Position : Post-doctoral fellowship for foreign students. CMS experiment at LHC (CERN).
2000-2004 Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT),
Madrid (Spain).
Position : PhD Fellowship at the Particle Physics Group. CMS experiment at LHC (CERN).
1999-2000 Institute for High Energy Physics (HEPHY), Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna (Austria)
Position : Collaboration grant for undergraduate students. DELPHI experiment at the LEP accelerator (CERN).
1999 DESY, Zeuthen - Berlín (Germany):
Position : Summer Student. L3 experiment at the LEP accelerator (CERN)
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Doctorate in Experimental Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SPAIN)
PhD thesis entitled “Study on Drift Tube Chambers for the Muon Spectrometer of the CMS
Experiment”. Presented on 16th April 2004 with the highest grade ( Cum Laude) .
 Degree in Theoretical Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, SPAIN)
Concluded on academic year 1999/2000
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ERASMUS grant at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Academic years 1998/1999 and 1999/2000
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Over 70 articles in several international publications (List: http://www-spires.fnal.gov/ )
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Collaboration in scientific outreach press articles. Among them:
“Cuenta atrás para el gran acelerador”, El País , national edition (09/May/2007).
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Attendance as speaker to 12 international conferences and schools in several countries (Spain,
Italy, Austria, South Africa,…) as representative of the CMS experiment.
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Numerous conferences about Particle Physics for the general public (CSIC-Madrid, CIEMAT-
Madrid, Ciudad Real, Science Museum – Valladolid, Teachers Training Center Madrid West, etc.).