María Vieites

María Vieites is a prominent Galician physicist, currently serving as the deputy coordinator of physics for the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. At just 34 years old, she has been instrumental in studying the elusive asymmetry between matter and antimatter, a discovery that could fundamentally change our understanding of the universe. Vieites emphasizes the need for new sources of imbalance between matter and antimatter to explain the predominance of matter in the cosmos, a question that has puzzled scientists for decades. Her work, which involves analyzing billions of proton collisions and the rare decays of baryons, is crucial in challenging and potentially expanding the existing Standard Model of particle physics.