Profile ∞ Education ∞ Professional Experience ∞ Awards ∞ Publications
Selected Talks and Poster Presentations ∞ Physics Schools

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Profile

Significant background in experimental physics, specializing in nuclear physics
Multicultural experience teaching physics and mathematics from grade school to university level
Wide-ranging programing skills with C++, ROOT, Python, Julia, and MATLAB
Strong bilingual public speaker – English and Spanish
Extensive fine arts background and proficiency with key metal workshop abilities

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Education 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
PhD Candidate, Nuclear Physics
2017 – Present

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Department of Physics, Quito, Ecuador
B.S. Physics, Minor in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude
2008 – 2015

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Engineering Physics exchange student
2011 – 2012, 2013 – 2014

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Professional Experience

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
Visiting Researcher – Signal Event Generation in Ge ICPC Detectors
Summer 2019, October 2020 – September 2021

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant – MAJORANA and LEGEND experiment collaborator
2017 – Present

Professional Tutor, Victoria, BC, Canada
Subcontractor and Self-Employed – Full time physics, mathematics, and chemistry tutor
2015 – 2017

ReStart Computer, Victoria, BC, Canada
Technical Service Coordinator
2016 – 2017

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kwiat Quantum Information Group, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Research Assistant – Single photon counter implementation in adaptive optics
Summer 2012, 2013 – 2015

CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
Research Assistant – Radiation tracker characterization
Summer 2014

Nuclear Physics Institute of the ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
Research Assistant – Cross sections of irradiated yttrium samples
Summer 2013

Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
High School Advanced Placement Mathematics Substitute Teacher
January – March 2013

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
Physics Teaching Assistant and Physics and Mathematics Departmental Grader
2012 – 2013

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Awards

2020 Best Talk Award, Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics. Awarded to the two best PhD student talks.

2019 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Alum. “Once every year, around 30-40 Nobel Laureates convene at Lindau to meet the next generation of leading scientists: 600 undergraduates, PhD students, and post-doc researchers from all over the world” – Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

2015 SENESCYT Fellow. Ecuadorian government merit-based funding for short term research.

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Publications

Alvis, S. I. et al. (Majorana Collaboration) (2019). Search for neutrinoless double-β decay in 76Ge with 26 kg yr of exposure from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. Physical Review C, 100(2), 025501.

Alvis, S. I. et al. (Majorana Collaboration) (2019). Multisite event discrimination for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. Physical Review C, 99(6), 065501.

Alvis, S. I. et al. (Majorana Collaboration) (2019). Search for trinucleon decay in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. Physical Review D, 99(7), 072004.

A., Hill, D., Hervas, D., Nash, J., Graham, M., Burgers, A., Paudel, U., Steel, D., Schneider, C., Kamp, M., Höfling, S., Wang, J., Lin, J., Zhao, W, Kwiat, P. G. (2017). Optimizing single-mode collection from pointlike sources of single photons with adaptive optics. Optics Express, 25(16), 18629-18642.

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Selected Talks and Poster Presentations

Hervas Aguilar, D. (2020). MAJORANA, LEGEND, and the future of the search for neutrinoless double-β decay in 76Ge. Invited Talk, Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics 2020, Cape Town, South Africa.

Hervas Aguilar, D. (2019). Lectures on Semiconductor Diode Detectors and Radiation. Invited Lecture, PIRE-GEMADARC Summer School on Germanium Technologies 2019, Munich, Germany.

Hervas Aguilar, D., Haufe, C., Reine, A. (2018). Design Improvements to Cables and Connectors in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. Poster Presentation, Neutrino 2018, Heidelberg, Germany.

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Physics Schools

2019 PIRE-GEMADARC Summer School on Germanium Technologies, Munich, Germany, June 2019

2018 PIRE-GEMADARC Summer School on Germanium Technologies, Chengdu, China, July 2018

2015 International Centre for Theoretical Physics Summer School of High Energy Physics, Trieste, Italy, June 2015

2015 CERN Latin-American School of High Energy Physics, Ibarra, Ecuador, March 2015

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