Headshot of Pablo Macias Lopez, a Yale Wright Lab undergrad working with Reina Maruyama, surrounded by cosmic filaments.

Pablo Macias Lopez

Undergraduate
CUORE/CUPID
Yale College

Biographical Sketch

Pablo Macias Lopez, originally from North Las Vegas, NV, is a senior at Yale double majoring in Physics (Intensive) and Film and Media Studies. 

Between immersive scientific visualization and storytelling, his work comprises research in ocean-based neutrino observatories, nuclear non-proliferation, as well as marine conservation research in Pacific coral reef atolls. 

In Professor Maruyama’s lab, he works with the neutrinoless double beta decay experiments: CUORE, and its successor, CUPID. His contributions entail the muon veto panel system’s CAD modeling, 3D printing prototypes, testing and characterization of SiPMs/PMTs, and preparing the R&D for the upcoming production phase of over 100 muon veto panels.

Education:

  • B.S. Physics (Intensive), Yale University, expected 2027
  • B.A. Film and Media Studies, Yale University, expected 2027

Contact Info

pablo.maciaslopez@yale.edu

WLC 254C

Experiments

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

CUORE & CUPID

Science goal: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay, which could answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.

Group involvement: Yale is responsible for detector calibration, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds, double beta decay analysis, & the search for solar axions. Maruyama and Karsten Heeger are CO-PIs of CUORE & CUPID.

Close up of faces of people working on the CUORE cryostat in clean room garb.