I am currently in the second year of my PhD, working on the ATLAS experiment. I spent one year doing detector development for the ATLAS endcap silicon tracker (SCT). This included thermal simulations of the performance of the cooling system: studying different designs for the cooling block of SCT modules. I also performed analysis of the common-mode noise in the silicon tracker, using data from single modules (at Manchester), as well as from a system of several modules working together in conditions similar to the ATLAS experiment (at the SCT systemtest at CERN). Now I am involved with the development of very forward proton taggers (Roman pots) for diffraction studies at ATLAS. I am working on a study of the acceptance and resolution of Roman pots. This includes simulations of diffractive processes and tracking diffracted protons along the LHC beam lines, far from the interaction point.

For my Ph.D. thesis I'm working on ATLAS, one of the four detectors which will be build on LHC at CERN. I have completed analysis of simulation of Higgs decay to four muons with implementation of background processes and minimal bias events. This includes of study of modern software of ATLAS experement. Now I'm working on simulation studies of other physics processes at LHC.

I am working on the charged kaons identification system for the CMD-3 detector. Several approaches to charged kaons identification system for the CMD-3 detector (VEPP-2000 collider, Budker INP) are considered, namely aerogel threshold Cherenkov counters, Cherenkov Correlated Timing technique and Time Of Flight organic scintillator counters. The PID system should be placed quite closely to the beam line, hence last two variants should have extremely high timing resolution. Additionally photodetectors will operate in the magnetic field 1.5 T and system thickness is limited to 2 cm. Timing resolution measurements of microchannel plate photomultiplier tubes are in progress.

My Ph.D. thesis involves working on ZEUS, a particle detector at the HERA e-p collider at DESY, Hamburg. Presently, I am performing charm measurements by tagging the D* -> K pi pi decay. I am analyzing a small set of data where the collision point has been shifted from the centre of the detector. This allows measurements to be made at low Q^2 ranges which will extend the kinematic region for previous measurements made at ZEUS. I also worked on calibration tests of the Central Tracking Detector using cosmic rays, and the final assembly of the upgraded Straw Tube Tracker Detector.

Form my Ph.D. thesis, I am working on ATLAS, one of the four detectors approved for data taking at LHC, which will collide protons on protons at a centre of mass energy of 14 TeV. I am working on one of the electromagnetic calorimeters of ATLAS, which measures the energy and direction of electrons and photons.I have taked part on the stacking of this calorimeter at UAM (Madrid).Now I am working on signal reconstruction,using the test beam data and I am performing analysis of the non-uniformity of the calorimeter as well as analysis of energetic resolution.

My Ph.D. work consists of two ATLAS related parts, SCT detector QA and simulation studies. The SCT is to be built from smaller detector modules, and for performing quality assurance of some of these modules, I have set up a test system at the University of Bergen. Studies of modules with unusual behaviour have also been performed. The other part of my work is full simulation of graviscalars, using the Athena framework. Graviscalars are extra-dimensional supersymmetric partners to the graviton, and could be increasing the missing-energy signal in ATLAS by adding to graviton production, depending on the effective couplings.