MARIA CHAMIZO-LLATAS
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
mchamizo@bnl.gov | Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg. 703

Biography
Dr. Maria Chamizo-Llatas holds a PhD in high-energy physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), where she studied b-physics with the L3 experiment at CERN. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva, she contributed to the construction of the ATLAS detector and later joined the CMS experiment during its construction and early operations. She served as Run Coordinator of CMS during the discovery of the Higgs boson. In 2016, she joined Brookhaven National Laboratory, where she is Director of the Office of Project Planning and Oversight for the Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate, providing oversight to major scientific projects in high-energy and nuclear physics. She has served on multiple advisory boards and currently co-chairs the Subatomic Physics Evaluation Committee of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Research Statement
My research interests center on understanding the fundamental components of matter to gain insight into the origin, composition, and evolution of the Universe. I have pursued this goal throughout my scientific and managerial career at the world’s largest particle accelerators—LEP (electron-positron), LHC (proton-proton), and RHIC (heavy ions) and the future Electron Ion Collider. My work has spanned both data analysis and the development of experimental apparatus for major experiments in high-energy and nuclear physics, including L3, ATLAS, CMS, proto-DUNE, sPHENIX. Currently, I am a member of the sPHENIX collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory.