Ignacio Taboada, Assistant Professor

Experimental Particle Astrophysics

My long term objective is to use the tools of particle astrophysics to understand astrophysical sources. I am currently involved in 2 large collaborations: IceCube, a neutrino telescope in operation at the South Pole and HAWC, a very high energy gamma ray observatory under construction. The activities of my group currently focus in Gamma Ray Bursts and related phenomena. The Georgia Tech group has shown than DeepCore, a subdetector of IceCube, has the ability to detect neutrinos from Choked GRBs. A detection of choked GRBs by IceCube would help us understand the link between GRBs and supernovae. The Georgia Tech group has also shown that HAWC, for the first time, has a realstic chance to detect very high energy gamma-rays from GRBs from the ground.

Professional Experience

• 2008 - Assistant Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2005 - 2008 Research Scientist, University of California at Berkeley
• 2002 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar
• 1996 - 2002 PhD, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
• 1989 - 1994 BSc Cum Laude, Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar