Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology

IceCube collaboration Spokesperson 2021-2025

Education

Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy. University of Pennsylvania (2002)
B.Sc. in Physics. Universidad Simón Bolívar (1994)

Teaching

Introductory Physics (Phys-2211)
Honors Physics I (Phys-2311)
Quantum Mechanics I (Phys-3143)
Quantum Mechanics II (Phys-4143)
Particles, Nuclei & Fields (Phys-4263)
Classical Mechanics I (Phys-6101)
Data Science for Physicists (Phys-6262)
Particle Astrophysics (Special Topics)

Research Interests:

Neutrinos are the latest frontier in high-energy astrophysics. Because of their low cross section for interacting with matter, they can escape from places that are opaque to gamma rays. And their presence is an unequivocal signal of a hadronic process at the sources. I am a member of IceCube, an international collaboration, that uses high-energy neutrinos as astrophysical messengers. I am a member of the P-ONE collaboration, which intends to build a km3-scale neutrino detector at 2,600 m of depth in the Pacific Ocean.

IceCube has discovered an all-sky, apparently isotropic, flux of neutrinos. The class or classes of sources, responsible for this flux remain unknown. Active Galaxies are a top candidate, though it is unclear what subclass of Active Galaxies are the relevant ones. IceCube has also discovered neutrinos from the Milky Way, which are probably due to a mixture of individual neutrino sources and the diffuse neutrino emission due to cosmic ray propagation throughout the Galaxy.

My group focuses broadly on the search for astrophysics sources of high-energy neutrinos.

Contact

itaboada -at- gatech -dot- edu
Phone: +1 (404) 385 7679 (office)
Office: Howey Bldg N-116

Mailing address:
School of Physics. Georgia Institute of Technology
837 State St NW
Atlanta, GA 30332. USA