About me

I am a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the high-energy physics group (FTAE) of the Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos of the Universidad de Granada; as well as Alumni of the Royal Society. Previously, I held posdoctoral positions in DESY (Germany) for two years and in the IFIC (Spain) for one year; and I was Newton International Fellow in the IPPP Durham (United Kingdom) for two years.

My research covers different aspects of physics beyond the Standard Model, including: collider physics, effective field theories, dark matter, gravitational waves from phase transitions, flavour physics as well as Higgs, top and neutrino physics.

Selected publications

1) Running in the ALPS, M. Chala, G. Guedes, M. Ramos and J. Santiago, arXiv:2012.09017.

2) One-loop running of dimension-six Higgs-neutrino operators and implications of a large neutrino dipole moment, M. Chala and A. Titov, arXiv:2006.14596.

3) Mapping the shape of the scalar potential with gravitational waves, M. Chala, V. V. Khoze, M. Spannowsky and P. Waite, arXiv:1905.00911.

4) Novel $B$-decay signatures of light scalars at high energy facilities, A. Blance, M. Chala, M. Ramos and M. Spannowsky, arXiv:1907.13151.

5) A light sneutrino rescues the light stop, M. Chala, A. Delgado, G. Nardini and M. Quirós, arXiv:1702.07359.