Maria
Ramos

I finished my BSc in Physics at the University of Porto, and got my first taste of research at CAUP, on dark-energy models and their observational imprints.

I did my MSc in Theoretical Physics at Porto (19/20), on CPT, modified gravity and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe.

I did my PhD as a co-tutelle between the Universities of Granada and Minho, on the interplay between collider and astrophysical probes of composite-Higgs models.

I defended my thesis Cum Laude, and it went on to win three best-thesis prizes from the Spanish Royal Physics Society, Granada and Minho.

I joined the Marie Skłodowska-Curie network HIDDeN as an Early-Stage Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with a research stay at the University of California, San Diego.

I was a guest on the Quantum Fracture podcast, talking about the Higgs, the Standard Model and axions. It's been watched over 280,000 times.

I moved to the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) in Madrid as a postdoctoral researcher.

I became a Research Fellow in the Theory Department at CERN, and the theory group's early-career representative on the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA).

I gave seminars and plenaries at ETH Zürich, the 8th FCC Physics Workshop and the Pollica workshop on the strong CP problem, and co-organised the Invisibles Workshop at CERN.

Plenary talks at Planck 2026 and the Blois Workshop, and I'm co-organising the MITP institute "ALPs Across Scales". 18 publications and 660+ citations so far.