About us

Full Partners
	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid UAM Belen Gavela (Coordinator) +info Madrid members of Invisibles include neutrino phenomenologists such as A. Donini, E. Fernandez-Martinez, M.J. Herrero, M. Maltoni, A. de Rújula, nuclear physicists working on double beta decay (A. Poves), neutrino experimentalists (L. Labarga, SuperKamiokande), dark matter experts (A. Knebe) and gravitation/cosmology experts (E. Alvarez), plus their postdocs and students. http://www.ft.uam.es	Public
	University of Durham UDUR Silvia Pascoli +info Members of Invisibles include S. Abel, C. Baugh, C Boehm, C. Frenk, S. Cole, V Khoze, A. Jenkins and T. Theuns, plus their postdocs and students. http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk	Public
	Aarhus Universitet AU Steen Hannestad +info Members of Invisibles include J. Hamann, J. Madsen and H. Fynbo, plus their postdocs and students. http://phys.au.dk	Public
	CNRS Asmaa Abada +info Members of Invisibles include: U. Ellwanger, Y. Mambrini, G Moreau, A. Arbey, P. Brax, S. Lavignac, S. Davidson, A. Teixeira, N. Mahmoudi, J. Orloff, S. Kraml, T. Lassere and M. Frigerio, plus their postdocs and students. http://www.th.u-psud.fr	Public
	Max Planck Gesellschaft MPG Manfred Lindner +info Members of Invisibles include: M. Lindner (Heidelberg), G. Raffelt (MPI Munich) and W. Winter (Univ. Wuerzburg), plus their postdocs and students. http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de	Public
	University of Goettingen-DESY UGOE Laura Covi +info Members of Invisibles include: J. Niemeyer, W. Buchmueller, A Ringwald, T. Bringmann, J. Kersten and G. Sigl, plus their postdocs and students. http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goe.de/~covi	Public
	INFN Stefano Rigolin +info Members of Invisibles include: A. Bettini, F. Feruglio, M. Mezzetto, M. Passera, M. Pietroni, S. Petcov, A. Romanino, P. Ullio, G. Senjanovich, A. Smirnov, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, O Cremonesi and M. Pavan, plus their postdocs and students. http://active.pd.infn.it/g4	Public
	Universidad de Barcelona UB Concepcion Gonzalez Garcia http://www.ecm.ub.edu	Public
	Universidad de Valencia Pilar Hernandez +info Members of Invisibles include: G. Baremboim, O. Mena, C. Pena-Garay, N. Rius, M. Sorel, A. Cervera and J.J. Gomez-Cadenas, plus their postdocs and students. http://som.ific.uv.es	Public
	University of Zurich Laura Baudis +info Members of Invisibles include: G. Isidori and M. Schumann, plus their postdocs and students. http://www.physik.uzh.ch/groups/grou...	Public
	University of Southampton Steve King +info Members of Invisibles include: S. Belyaev and P. di Bari, plus their postdocs and students. http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk	Public

Associated Partners
	University of Tokyo Takaaki Kajita +info Members of Invisibles include: H. Murayama and K. Okumura. http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_eng.html http://www.ipmu.jp	Public
	CERN Elena Wildner +info Members of Invisibles include: D. Berge, C. Hansen, G. Servant, G. Altarelli and G. Giudice. http://public.web.cern.ch/public	Public
	Columbia University Elena Aprile +info Members of Invisibles include: K. Giboni, M. Messina, G. Tajiri, M. Stern, A. Melgarejo, R. Budnik, A. Rizzo, G. Plante, A. Loose, K. Lim, B. Choi, L. Goetzke and H. Contreras. http://xenon.astro.columbia.edu	Public
	Fermi National Laboratory Stephen Parke +info Members of Invisibles include: A. Para, D. Bauer, C. Quigg, B. Kayser, S. Geer, A. Bross, R. Plunkett, B. Rebel, S. Zeller, S. Brice, C. Polly, P. Shanahan, J. Cooper, G. Rameika, C. James, B. Baller, D. Harris, D. Morfin, F. de Jongh, A. Sonnenschein and P. Cooper. http://theory.fnal.gov	Public
	Harvard University Lisa Randall +info Members of Invisibles include: D. Finkbeiner, H. Georgi, M. Reece, M. Schwartz and C. Vafa. http://www.physics.harvard.edu	Public
	Stony Brook University Concha Gonzalez Garcia +info Members of Invisibles include: G. Sterman, R. Essig, P. Meade, T. Corbett. http://www.stonybrook.edu	Public
	Stockholm University Thomas Schwetz-Mangold +info Members of Invisibles include: T Schwetz-Mangold, L Bergström, and J Edsjö. http://www.fysik.su.se/	Public
	Universidade de Sao Paulo Renata Zukanovich Funchal +info Members of Invisibles include: I. Freire da Mota Albuquerque, G. Alberto Burdman and O. José Pinto Eboli. http://www.fma.if.usp.br	Public
	Universidad Antonio Nariño Marta Losada +info Members of Invisibles include: R. Gutierrez, G. Navarro and J. Beltran. http://www.uan.edu.co	Private
	Zewail City Shaaban Khalil +info Members of Invisibles include: E. Amr, L. ElSayed, E. Ahmed, A. Waleed y A. Mustafa. http://www.zewailcity.edu.eg	Public
	University of Delhi Brajesh Choudhary +info Members of Invisibles include: D. Choudhary. http://www.du.ac.in/index.php?id=421	Public
	Harish Chandra Research Institute Sandhya Choubey +info Members of Invisibles include: A. Dighe. http://www.hri.res.in	Public
	Inst. for Research in Fundamental Science Yasaman Farzan +info Members of Invisibles include: E. Erfani, A. Rezaei Akbarieh, B. Kahvari and P. Bakhti. http://physics.ipm.ac.ir	Public
	Hamamatsu Photonics Yuji Yoshizawa http://www.hamamatsu.com	Private
	GMV Aerospace and Defense Ana Curiel http://www.gmv.co	Private
	Kromek Max Robinson http://www.kromek.com	Private
	Medialab Enrico Balli http://medialab.sissa.it	Private
	phpdocx http://www.phpdocx.com	Private

Friends of Invisibles
Membership of this group is open to organisations interested in being part of the network on an informal basis. There will be opportunities to share information, learn about project developments, workshops and activities, and to collaborate with members of our ITN.
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics	Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics Marc Schumann http://www.einstein.unibe.ch
Arizona State University	Arizona State University Cecilia Lunardini http://www.cosmology.asu.edu
Centro Atómico Bariloche	Centro Atómico Bariloche Esteban Roulet http://fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar/particulas/index.php
Duke University	Duke University Chris Walter +info Members of Invisibles include: Kate Scholberg http://neutrino.phy.duke.edu/
	Heidelberg University Joerg Jaeckel http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?lang=e
	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yu-Feng Zhou http://www.kitpc.ac.cn http://www.itp.cas.cn
KTH, Sweden	KTH, Sweden Mattias Blennow +info Members of Invisibles include: Professor Tommy Ohlsson http://www.theophys.kth.se/tepp/
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (Assistant Professor) http://www.iopb.res.in/index.php
NICPB	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB) Martii Raidal +info Members of Invisibles include: Alessandro Strumia, Andi Hektor, Mario Kadastik, Emidio Gabrielli http://coe.kbfi.ee
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Graciela Gelmini http://home.physics.ucla.edu/
The University of Edinburgh	The University of Edinburgh Alex Murphy +info Members of Invisibles include: James Dobson http://www.ed.ac.uk
Tokyo Metropolitan University	Tokyo Metropolitan University Osamu Yasuda http://musashi.phys.se.tmu.ac.jp/English/index_e.html
Université Libre de Bruxelles	Université Libre de Bruxelles Thomas Hambye http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/physth/
University of California, Irvine	University of California, Irvine Mu-Chun Chen +info Members of Invisibles include: Particle Theorists: Mu-Chun Chen, Jonathan Feng, Arvind Rajaraman, Yuri Shirman, Tim Tait; Astro-particle Theorists: Kevork Abazajian, Manoj Kaplinghat; Experimentalists: Steve Barwick, Bill Molzon, Simona Murgia, Michael Smy, Hank Sobel, Daniel Whiteson, as well as their postdocs and students. http://www.physics.uci.edu
University of Washington	University of Washington Ann Nelson https://sharepoint.washington.edu/phys/Pages/default.aspx
	The Ohio State University John Beacom http://ccapp.osu.edu
	School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University Poonam Mehta http://www.jnu.ac.in/SPS/
	PUCP Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Joel Jones-Pérez http://www.pucp.edu.pe/

*First line left to right: Valerie Domcke, Maria Archidiacono, Nassim Bozorgnia, Ninetta Saviano, Valetina de Romeri, Ilaria Brivio, Marija Kekic and Daniel Mayani.

*Second line left to right: Johannes Bergström, Takashi Toma, Michele Lucente, Aaron Vincent, Pedro Machado, Mark Ross-Lonergan, Thomas Neder, Giorgio Arcadi, Kirill Kanshin, Peter Barrow and Miguel Hierro.

Invisibles is a European ITN project (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN), which focuses on Neutrino and Dark Matter phenomenology and their connection. Experimental and theoretical aspects are also encompassed. The network involves nodes in seven European countries and its associated partners extend to seven non-European countries.

Neutrinos and Dark Matter are the most abundant particles in the universe and yet they remained unnoticed -invisible- until recently, due to their tenuous couplings to the ordinary matter we are composed of. Neutrino masses inferred from neutrino oscillations and the existence of dark matter constitute the first evidence ever of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. A wide experimental program focused on the properties of both type of particles is underway and key new results are becoming available. The road to build the New Standard Model of particle physics is open: a theory which must encompass the nature and properties of neutrinos and dark matter, besides those of ordinary matter. The mission of Invisibles ITN is to form the new generation of young researchers which will accomplish this task. This is the first transnational program, overcoming the European fragmentation on these topics.

Invisibles ITN is uniquely placed to achieve this task:

World-leadership in all relevant scientific areas is present
A novel multidisciplinary approach fostering the neutrino-dark matter synergy
In addition to theorists, it includes neutrino and dark matter experimentalists; theory-experiment cross training is a unique characteristic of this ITN
Outstanding training record
Partnership with world-leader research-related industry
Strong expertise in outreach and communication with two dedicated companies
Optimal in gender balance and role models, with over 60% female and mostly junior international leaders as coordinators.

This European project will provide funding for PhD and young postdoc positions from 2012

For a list of network members (at full or associated partners) and friends of the network, please click here.