2024
- Physics Research at VU Amsterdam, introduction to the research at the Physics and Astronomy department of the VU Amsterdam to the 1st year students of the Natuur- en Sterrenkunde BSc program, Amsterdam, February 2024.
- Why should you study Physics? Contribution to the Career Fair of the Rotterdam International Secondary School (RISS), Rotterdam, February 2024.
2023
- Vision on the Faculty: the VU visits CERN, monthly blog post of Prof. Dr. Aletta Kraneveld, Dean of the Faculty of Science of VU Amsterdam, about our visit to CERN and the main LHC experiments.
- First detections of collider neutrinos generate excitement, interview in this article for Physics World about the recent observation of LHC neutrinos by FASER and SND@LHC.
- Looking forward at the LHC, invited article at the CERN Courier magazine about the 6th workshop of the Forward Physics Facility community at CERN, which took place in June 2023.
- De mysterieuze binnenwereld van het proton, article and interview in the NRC newspaper, weekend edition (in Dutch) about my recent research on proton structure (August 2023). See also the corresponding url here (paywall).
- Did AI prove our proton models wrong? PBS video showcasing my research on the charm content of the proton (June 2023).
- De vele gezichten van het verbazingwekkende proton, guest outreach lecture (in Dutch) at the Leiden Science Cafe, Leiden, May 2025. The slides and animations are available in pdf, keynote, and powerpoint.
- Protons seem to be a different size depending on how you look at them, interview in New Scientist (UK edition) about the first measurement of the gluonic gravitational form factors of the proton.
- Inside the Proton, “the Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine”, research about proton structure featured in the Quanta Science Podcast of Quanta Magazine.
- The Standard Model: How can we identify its strengths and weaknesses?, feature article in Innovation News Network about the Theory Group of Nikhef.
- At the Heart of Matter: The Secret Inner Life of Protons, public lecture in the context of the STRONG2020 European Network outreach program, live on YouTube including Q&A from the audience. March 2023. Full set of recordings of the live lectures available here. The .pdf and the .keynote files for this lecture are also available.
2022
- Lekker lesgeven and Een charmanter proton, interview in the Autumn 2022 edition of the Nikhef Dimensies magazine
- Het proton de bouwsteen van alles om ons heen blijkt nog vreemder dan gedacht, expert opinion in the Volkskrant newspaper about this Nature paper
- Inside the proton, the `most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’, interview for Quanta Magazine about a feature piece on recent discoveries concerning proton structure.
- Proton’s stretchiness is a puzzle for particle physicists, expert opinion on New Scientist UK about this Nature paper
- TikTok video in the channel of Dr. Clara Nellist (UvA & Nikhef) about our study of intrinsic charm quarks in the proton.
- Youtube video as part of the outreach activities of the department of Physics and Astronomy of VU Amsterdam, see below
2022 (intrinsic charm)
The following media pieces describe the findings of our Nature publication Evidence for intrinsic charm quarks in the proton (open access)
- Physics World (UK): Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, machine-learning analysis suggests
- German National Radio (DE): Protonen mit Charm: Auch schwere Quarks finden sich in Kernbausteinen
- Volkskrant (NL): Proton bevat een wonderlijk extra deeltje: de ‘charm quark’
- Kijk Magazine (NL): Bevat het proton deeltjes die zwaarder zijn dan hijzelf?
- New Scientist (UK version): Physicists surprised to discover the proton contains a charm quark
- Science News (US) : Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, a new study suggests
- Nikhef press release(NL/EN) : Bewezen: het proton heeft een beetje inwendige charme
- VU Amsterdam press release (NL/EN) : New Nature paper proves: the proton has some intrinsic charm
- Nature Asia News and Views: Evidence at last the proton has intrinsic charm
2021
- Simpele waterstofkern blijkt verrassend charmant, interview in the New Scientist concerning the NNPDF4.0 global analysis of proton structure and the current hints for an intrinsic charm component in the proton wave function.
- Geniale fases volgen standardpatroon, interview in the New Scientist concerning a recent paper where machine learning is used to quantify the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers.
- The simple proton proves more than ever to be a world unto itself, Nikhef press release about the NNPDF4.0 global analysis of the proton structure, September 2021, also available in Dutch. News item also available from the VU Amsterdam website.
- Svelare la struttura del protone con l’intelligenza artificiale al Large Hadron Collider, press release of the Universita degli Study di Milano, Italy, September 2021.
- How to stay in science: a perspective from a particle theorist, part of the workshop “How to stay in Science” organised by the PhD Council of Nikhef.
- 500k euro voor inzet kunstmatige intelligentie bij deeltjesonderzoek , press release by the Faculty of Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- Green light from eScience Center for software projects at Nikhef, about the award of the eScience Accelerating Scientific Discovery (ASDI2020) grant to the project Unravelling Proton Structure with Hyperoptimised Machine Learning.
- Onthuld: de bizarre wereld in het binnenste van protonen, bouwstenen van alles om ons heen, interview in De Volkskrant related to the “Asymmetry of antimatter in the proton” paper published in Nature by the SeaQuest collaboration.
- Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter, interview for Quanta Magazine concerning the same `Asymmetry of antimatter in the proton” paper mentioned above.
- Vreemde verdeling antimaterie in protonen, interview in New Scientist concerning recent investigations in the antimatter content of protons.
2020
- Interview in Nikhef’s Dimensies magazine as part of the feature about Nikhef’s Theory group.
- Research work in the Corona times, VU Amsterdam University Library
- Nikhef-onderzoekers nemen higgsdeeltje op een nieuwe manier onder de loep, Nikhef press release
- Nieuwe botsingstheorie maakt neutrinotelescopen beter (in Dutch), Nikhef press release
2019
- Outreach lecture: Artificial intelligence from basic research to real-life applications, at the International School of Delft (ISD) for Grade 6 students, November 2019.
- Speaker, kick-off outreach event of the association of the Spanish Scientists in the Netherlands (CENL) Ciencia y Vivencias de los Cientificos Espanoles en Paises Bajos, Amsterdam, September 2019. Slides of the guest lecture can be found here:
- My research has been highlighted in one of Nikhef’s PAPERCLIP 3-minutes video where I describe the results of our recent study of the simultaneous determination of the proton structure and of potential beyond the Standard Model physics effects.
2018
- Guest Blogger representing Nikhef at the Particle People series of Interactions.org
- The secret code of Nature: unveiling the secrets of elementary particles, guest lecture for the students of the Rotterdam International Secondary School as part of their Explorers program
2017
- Author of popular science book “La vida intima de las particulas” (the inner life of particles), originally published in Spanish and then translated to Italian and Portuguese.
- After 40 years of studying the strong nuclear force, a revelation, article of Jon Butterworth in The Guardian highlighting our discovery of BFKL dynamics in HERA data reported in this work.
- There is a lot we don’t know about the proton, article in Science News about recent developments in our understanding of the proton structure, including our analysis of the gluon contribution to the total spin presented in this work.
The Hidden Life of Particles 