Javier Santaolalla

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Javier Santaolalla
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Javier Santaolalla Camino

(1982-08-31) 31 August 1982 (age 43)
Burgos, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Education National University of Distance Education
Complutense University of Madrid
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Occupation(s)Scientific disseminator, physicist and telecommunications engineer
Employer CERN
Awards Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
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Years active2016–present
Genre Science
Subscribers4 million
Views1000 million
Last updated: 14 October 2024[ needs update ]

Javier Santaolalla Camino (born 31 August 1982) is a Spanish physicist, engineer, doctor in particle physics and scientific popularizer. [1] He has worked at the National Center for Space Studies (CNES) in France, CIEMAT and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson through the Large Hadron Collider (LHS) from CMS Experiment. [2]

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In 2025, he was awarded the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise. [3]

Biography

Javier Santaolalla Camino was born in Burgos, Spain. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [4] and has a degree in physical sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). After being accepted at CERN to study for a master's degree, he received his doctorate in particle physics, also from the UCM, in 2012, with a thesis on electroweak processes in muon decay in the CMS experiment at the LHC. [5] He has also coordinated the educational innovation project Creations, funded by the European Union. [6]

Along with Santi García Cremades, Ana Payo Payo and Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, he is a member of the Big Van Ciencia group since 2013, dedicated to scientific outreach events. [7] He participates in Órbita Laika, [8] a late night science of scientific popularizer and humor talk show broadcast on the Spanish network La 2. [9] He is the creator of the YouTube channels Date un voltio, Date un vlog, Date Un Show. [10] [11] For his scientific humor monologue for the Famelab contest, he received the 2015 Aquae Award. [12] He has been described by Infolibre as "the greatest Spanish scientific popularizer on the web". [13] Since February 2021, [14] together with La gata de Schrödinger, he has presented the program Whaat!? How do you see it, from the RTVE digital platform, playz. [15] [16]

Selected works

As co-author

References

  1. ↑ "Javier Santaolalla, Rocío Vidal, Nerea Blanco y Sandra Ortonobes participan este jueves en el evento ¡Cuánto Talento!" (in Spanish). Europa Press. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. ↑ López, Juan Carlos (10 March 2019). "Así vivió el descubrimiento del bosón de Higgs un físico español del CERN: hablamos con Javier Santaolalla, divulgador científico". Xataka (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Pedro Sánchez entrega la Encomienda de la Orden Civil Alfonso X El Sabio a Javier Santaolalla". www.lamoncloa.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-11-06.
  4. ↑ Rodríguez Martin, Miguel Ángel (2013). "Entrevista al Dr. Javier Santaolalla, ingeniero de telecomunicación y físico español, participante en las investigaciones del boson Higgs en el CERN" (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ Santaolalla Camino, Javier (2012). "MEASUREMENT OF ELECTROWEAK PROCESSES IN MUON DECAY CHANNELS, IN PP COLLISIONS AT √S=7 TEV, IN THE CMS EXPERIMENT AT LHC" (PDF) (in Spanish). Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Retrieved 13 June 2020.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ "Javier Santaolalla, el youtuber de la física". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 5 October 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Big Van Ciencia: El arte de contar la ciencia".
  8. ↑ "Así será el nuevo "Órbita Laika": la ciencia vuelve a la televisión". ABC (in Spanish). 9 January 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  9. ↑ "'Órbita Laika' ya tiene fecha de regreso a La 2 y desvela sus fichajes y nueva sección". El Diario (in Spanish). 8 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  10. ↑ García, Jose (28 September 2022). "Entrevistamos a Javier Santaolalla en directo: vente a hablar de ciencia y espacio con nosotros en XTK, el programa de Xataka en Twitch". Xataka (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  11. ↑ Castro, Ovidio (3 September 2017). "Javier Santaolalla, el físico youtuber". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  12. ↑ "El físico del CERN Javier Santaolalla gana el Premio Aquae al #Monólogo de Ciencia". Fundación Aquae (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  13. ↑ Díaz, Lucía (June 10, 2020). "Javier Santaolalla: "Perdemos la curiosidad y la vida empieza a parecerte anodina"". infoLibre.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  14. ↑ RTVE, PRENSA (16 February 2021). "Playz estrena 'Whaat!? Tú cómo lo ves', un nuevo programa de divulgación futurista". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  15. ↑ RTVE, PRENSA (2020-07-16). "Playz prepara 'Whaat!?', un programa de divulgación". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  16. ↑ "Playz estrena 'Whaat!? Tú cómo lo ves', presentado por Rocío Vidal y Javier Santaolalla". FormulaTV (in Spanish). 17 February 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  17. ↑ Santaolalla, Javier. ¿QUE HACE UN BOSON COMO TU EN UN BIG BANG COMO ESTE?.
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