Manuel Franco Sevilla

Manuel Franco Sevilla is an Assistant Professor in the Physics department at the University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in experimental particle physics. His research focuses on flavor physics, particularly lepton universality violation, and development of readout electronics for the LHCb experiment at CERN. He earned his PhD from Stanford University and completed postdoctoral work at UC Santa Barbara. His current affiliations include the LHCb collaboration where he contributes to precision measurements and detector advancements.

• Education: Engineering degree from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Physics studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University (2012)
• Key Positions: Postdoc at UC Santa Barbara (2012-2018), Assistant Professor at UMD since 2018
• Research Themes: Flavor physics, Standard Model tests, Heavy flavor dynamics, Detector R&D
• Collaborations: LHCb, CMS (past), BaBar (past)

His work includes seminal contributions to B meson decays, such as observing excesses in B→D(*)τν transitions challenging lepton universality. Currently leads LHCb's readout electronics development for the Upstream Tracker detector. Active in advancing machine learning techniques for simulation in particle physics.

Publications focus on precision measurements of baryon lifetimes, exotic hadron states, and lepton flavor violation searches. No awards explicitly mentioned in text, but his research has significant impact in particle physics community.