José W. F. Valle

José W. F. Valle (born June 2, 1953) is a Brazilian-Spanish physicist whose research includes many aspects of astroparticle physics and high energy physics, especially neutrino physics.

He is a senior scientist at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, the largest public research body in Spain, leading both the Astroparticle and High Energy Group (AHEP group) and the Theory Division of IFIC (Instituto de Física Corpuscular) at the University of Valencia.^[1][2]

He has contributed to the modern theory of neutrino mass^[3] and neutrino oscillation^[4] whose recent experimental discovery was a triumph of neutrino astronomy, an emerging field which has given the physics Nobel Prize in 2002 to Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba. This discovery provides the only firm indication of the incompleteness of the Standard Model of particle physics with important consequences also for astrophysics and cosmology.^[5]

Honors

• Spanish Iberdrola Science & Technology Prize for Theoretical Physics in 1999
• A. von Humboldt Research Award in 2002

Press

• CERN Courier note on the occasion of the Humboldt Research Award, April-2003
• An Interview to Spanish newspaper [El Pais, October 2006.

• Neutrino detection in Spanish newspaper El Publico, May 2008, download here.

Publications

Here is an google academic database listing all his published peer-reviewed papers. Here is the corresponding publication profile from the INSPIRE-HEP High Energy Physics database.

References

External links

• Citation summary profile from Inspires Energy Physics database at SLAC
• Google scholar profile
• Particle theorists citation ranking from Spires HEP database (2004).
• AHEP-Astroparticle and High Energy Group
• IFIC-Institut de Física Corpuscular
• Humboldt Prize

See also

• List of theoretical physicists