Jose M. Munoz Arias

I am a Physics PhD student at MIT in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, at the García Ruiz group. I work on several aspects of nuclear science, trying to tackle the problem of bridging our theoretical understanding of fundamental interactions to what we can measure in the lab. This relies heavily on statistical modeling, controlled approximations and computational methods.

My research has taken me through quite different areas, from practical problems to fundamental questions. I started as an undergraduate working on neutrinos, then moved into high-energy physics with the CMS experiment at CERN. During my PhD, I began studying nuclear forces and many-body systems, and more recently, the physics of atoms and molecules, including how we can measure and control them. Along the way, I've also worked quite a bit on machine learning, both in research and industry.