BIO

Michel Sorel is a scientist working in experimental neutrino physics. He has been working on neutrino, or neutrino-related, experiments across three continents: MiniBooNE, SciBooNE and DUNE in America, K2K and T2K in Asia, and HARP and NEXT in Europe. Michel searches for rare decays, such as neutrinoless double beta decay and proton decay, and studies neutrino oscillations with man-made particle accelerators.

Michel earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1998. He later moved to Columbia University (USA), where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 2005. His dissertation research was on the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment with advisor Professor Janet Conrad. He then moved to the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC, Valencia, Spain) as a post-doctoral researcher, where he continues to be based at. He is now a CSIC Staff Scientist. 

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Michel is married with Olga Mena, a theoretical physicist. They are the parents of two children, Sofia and Nicolas.