Three researchers from La Salle-URL among the top 150 Spanish scientists according to the latest Ranking of ACUMEN

The 6th edition of the Ranking of Scientists in Spanish Institutions (from 1 to 5,000) according to their Google Scholar appointments, prepared by the ACUMEN Project of the European Commission, includes in this edition three researchers from La Salle Campus Barcelona-URL between the 150 best positions: Dr. Xavier Vilasís, Dra Miriam Calvo and Alessandro Camboni.

The first two have improved many positions, while Camboni enters for the first time in these advantageous positions. Xavier Vilasís, PhD in Physical Sciences from the University of Barcelona and Professor at La Salle-URL, is located in a privileged 61st position.

Xavier Vilasís is a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN. He works on research topics both physics and engineering and is a disseminator of the technological aspects of particle physics. As Dean of Doctorate at La Salle-URL, he worries about the training needs of engineers to face the new challenges of society.

In position 103, also improving many positions, we find Míriam Calvo Gómez, PhD. in physics from the University of Barcelona (2006). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at La Salle-URL, in the GR-SETAD research group. He is a member of the international collaboration LHCb, where he contributes to the analysis of data from the CERN LHCb experiment, dedicated to the study of particle physics. Within the collaboration, it is necessary to emphasize its role as coordinator of the group of 'Calorimeter Objects' and former coordinator of the group of physics of 'Radiative B decays'.

Alessandro Camboni also appears among the top 150, specifically in position 117. Camboni is a master's degree in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics at the University of Cagliari (Sardinia) and also a doctor in Physics from the University of Barcelona with a study on the production of hadronic jets of quarks b in the LHCb experiment. Member of the international collaboration LHCb of the CERN of Geneva currently works in La Salle as a postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva. His studies focus on the implementation of modern techniques of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the analysis of the data and for the performance of the LHCb particle detector.

The data to elaborate this Ranking were compiled during August of 2017 and orders the first profiles classified first by the index in descending order and later by the total number of appointments.