User:Silanga15/Alicia Calderón Tazón

Alicia Calderón (Cantabria, 1982) is a Spanish physicist and researcher, specialized in particle physics, who was part of the team of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that discovered the Higgs boson, a key piece in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which explains precisely how the fundamental structure of matter is and what phenomena took place in the first moments of the universe, a discovery for which Peter Higgs was recognized with a Nobel Prize in physics.

Formation
He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Cantabria. D. thesis on the muon chamber alignment system of the CMS detector at the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), Centro Mixto del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the University of Cantabria (UC), Cantabria, Spain. From 2001 to 2007 she was a postdoctoral researcher at IFCA and from 2007 to 2009 in Italy at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics of the University of Padua.

Professional trajectory
Since 2012 she became a JAE-DOC researcher (Program “Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios”) within the Particle Physics group, at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA). She is a specialist in the analysis of the data collected by the CMS Experiment (also called CMS particle detector or Compact Muon Solenoid), the golden tool of the Large Hadron Collider (also called LHC or Large Hadron Collider) at CERN.

In November 2014 he was responsible, together with other researchers from IFCA and the CMS experiment, for the development and implementation of the CMS open data publication policy promoted by Teresa Rodrigo Anoro, IFCA researcher and chair of the CMS collaboration board. The Spanish contribution to the CERN Open Data initiative has been considered very relevant within the project of publishing the results of the Large Hadron Collider experiments through an open data portal with the data of the real collisions produced by the LHC experiments, available to the scientific community and educational projects. Kati Lassila-Perini confirms that this CMS collaboration was the first experiment in High Energy Physics to make its data public.

In 2015, Calderón began to be known for her work and is regularly called upon as a speaker. In December of that year, for example, she participated in the round table 'Women Scientists. Women in Science', as part of the exhibition “Women and Science. 13 names to change the world” organized by the Central Library of Cantabria in Santander with the collaboration of the University of Cantabria and the Regional Government of Cantabria, created by the Tomás Pascual Sanz-CENIEH Chair, in collaboration with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). He also became a lecturer at the University of Cantabria.

She is a strong advocate of science popularization in society, to provoke curiosity, to broaden general knowledge and to explain the importance of science and education for the future and development of society through competitive industries and an acceptable technological level that deserve an investment in science and technology.

Acknowledgments
In 2006 he won the first prize in the III Contest of Technology-Based Companies. In 2020 he was awarded by the Ministry of Defense the distinction of honorary reservist of the Armed Forces for his contribution and contribution to science.