User:VPM005/Alicia Calderón Tazón

Alicia Calderón Tazón

Personal Information

Birth 1981

Cantabria (Spain)

Education

Studied in University of Cantabria

Personal Information

Ocupation Phisicyst and researcher

Employer University of Cantabria

Alicia Calderón (Cantabria, 1982) is a physicist and spanishresearcher, specialised in particle physics. She belonged to to European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) responsible for the discovery of Higgsboson. Peter Higgs was awarded with a Physics Nobel for this discovery.

Formation
Alicia got her Bachelor's degree and her doctorate in Physics through the University of Cantabria. She wrote her thesis on the alignment system of the muon cameras from the  CMS (Compact muon solenoid) inside the Physics Institute of Cantabria (IFCA), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and University of Cantabria (UC), Cantabria, Spain. She was a postdoctoral investigator in the tween the years 2001 and 2007 and in Italy in the National Nuclear Physics Institute from the University of Padua.

Proffesional Trayectory
She became an investigator for the JAE-DOC (Program "Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios" ) since 2012 inside the particle physics group in the Cantabria's Physics Instituro (IFCA). She is an specialist in the data analisys gathered by the CMS Experimen (also known particle dector CMS or Compact Muon Solenoid), tool found inside the Large Hadron Collider (also known LHC accelerator) from CERN.

In November 2014 she was responsible, along other IFCA and CMS experiment researchers, for the development and implementation of the publication of the dadta politics of the CMS, driven by Teresa Rodrigo Anoro, IFCA researcher and president of the colaboration board of the CMS.Spanish contribution to the Open Data initiative from CERN has been considered really relevant inside the publishing project of the experimental results of the Large Hadron Collider, through an open data portal. Real collision data produced by the LHC experiments were used, making available data for the scientific community and educational projects Kati Lassila-Perini confirmed tha this CMS colaboration has been the first experiment in the Physics High Energy field to make public their data.

Calderón started being known for her work in 2015, and she is often required as a speaker. As an example, this year, in December, she participated in the round table 'Mujeres científicas. Mujeres en la Ciencia', during the exposition "Mujer y Ciencia. 13 nombres para cambiar el mundo", organized by the Central Library of Cantabria in Santander. This was a colaboration with the University of Cantabria and Regional Government of Cantabria, created by the Cátedra Tomás Pascual Sanz-CENIEH, colaborating with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). She also became a proffessor in the University of Cantabria.

She is a great defender of the popular science for society, generating curiosity, broading general knowledge and explaining importance of science and education for the future, developing society through competitive industries and acceptable technological levels, which deserve science and technology investment.

Awards
In 2006, she was awarded with the first prize of the "III Concurso de Empresas de Base Tecnológica." In 2020 she received the reservist honour distinction of the Spanish Armed Forces by the Ministry of Defence for her contributions to science