The scientist Juan José López Cadenas, born in Cartagena in 1960, Professor of Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Research Professor of CSIC will be asked to deliver a lecture that opens the academic ceremony on the occasion of the feast of San José, held the School of Industrial Engineering UPCT on Thursday at 19 pm in the auditorium of the Old Naval Hospital.
After graduating in Physics from the University of Valencia, Juan José López pursued graduate studies in the linear accelerator at Stanford University in California, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship.
He later worked at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) and at the universities of Harvard and Massachusetts.
López Cadenas is also an essayist and novelist.
He currently combines his research in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC), which studies the nature of the neutrino in the search for heavy particles that hardly interact with matter (WIMPS), with the literary, having published such novels as "Foreign matter" a scientific thriller based on a nuclear espionage plot.
Then, 276 students receive their diploma at the end of study.
The event will also present awards limit the degree of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management and Engineering in Automation and Industrial Electronics.
Source: UPCT