CV

General Information

Full Name Jonathan Lozano Mayo
Contact Jonathanloz@utexas.com
Languages Spanish (Native), English (fluent), German (B1), French (A2)

Research Areas

  • Some of my research interests are the study heavy flavor angular correlations, topological and non-topological solitons applications to particle physics and cosmology and collider phenomenology.

Education

  • 2023 - present
    University of Texas at Austin – Ph.D in Physics
  • 2015 - 2020
    National Autonomous University of Mexico – B.Sc in Physics
    • Advised by Prof. Manuel Torres Labansat
    • GPA: 9.39 (10.0 scale) High Honors
    • Thesis: Spontaneous Symmetry breaking and extended field configurations in a scalar theory subject to a potential with two families of vacuum states

Professional Presentations

  • 2025
    ALICE USA meeting
    • \(h-D^0\) angular correlations and \(\Delta ROF\) performance studies for the ITS
  • 2021
    LXVI National Physics Congress. Mexican Physical Society
    • Multi-solitones en teorías escalares de campo con vacíos no-degenerados: el modelo doble de Sine-Gordon

Research Experience

  • 2025
    \(h-D^0\) angular correlations to study charm production
    • University of Texas at Austin
    • Advised by Prof. Christina Markert
    • We use ALICE Run3 Pb-Pb collisions to study the properties of charm production in different colored environments by taking the azimuthal angle difference between a high momentum trigger hadron and a lower momentum associated D meson.
  • 2024
    JWST early massive galaxies and Top-Heavy IMF's
    • Weinberg Institute, University of Texas at Austin
    • Advised by Prof. Katherine Freese
    • We modeled a variety of spectral energy distributions of galaxies by using the population syntesis code Pegase to constrain the parameter space for which the JWST observations of high-redshift galaxies is consistent with the standard \(\Lambda_{CDM}\) model.
  • 2021-2022
    Static Multikink solutions in deformed models
    • Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Advised by Prof. Manuel Torres Labansat
    • We studied the phenomenology of the formation of static structures with n kinks in models with deformed potentials. In order to study the binding forces between kinks I performed numerical simulations in the programming language Julia, additionally, I found an analytical relation for the energy of the static multikink. There’s an article in preparation reporting our findings and we’re planning to extend our study to higher dimensional topological structures in the future.
  • 2019-2020
    One-loop quantum renormalization of kink masses, forces between kinks and virial relations
    • Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Advised by Dr. Manuel Torres Labansat
    • I studied the emergent phenomena in the behavior of the kink configurations arising from the topology of a generalized \(\phi^4\) potential. During this project I used perturbation techniques in order to renormalize the quantum mass correction of a kink configuration. By using asymptotic analysis we proved the existence of static multikink configurations and developed the framework to understand the stability of such fields.
  • 2018
    Photon Wave Function
    • Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Advised by Prof. Manuel Torres Labansat
    • I studied the possibility of having a well-defined photon wave function starting from the photon’s dispersion relation and then letting the theory go checking for consistency. The appropriate quantum operators and Lorentz transformations were constructed by using elements of group theory to find the representations acting on the proposed 6-component wave function. After obtaining the lagrangian density the expected symmetries of the theory were examined. I worked under the tutelage of Dr.Manuel Torres Labansat at the Physics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
  • 2018
    Mass spectrometry
    • Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Advised by Prof. Juan Lopez Patiño
    • A collision between protons and air particles was produced using a Low-Energy linear collider. The products of the reaction were analyzed using the time of flight mass spectrometry technique.
Note: for further details on my research, please see the publications page.

Honors and Awards

  • Scholarships
    • Biedenharn Endowment for Excellence (2024)
    • DPG/IAPS-PLANCKS Munich Travel Grant (2022)
    • Mainz PRISMA Cluster of Excellence Scholarship (2021)
    • AMC research summer scholarship (2018)
    • ICF VII experimental physics summer school scholarship (2018)
    • IF XXV physics summer school scholarship (2017)
  • Awards
    • Placed 1st in the mexican PLANCKS preliminary (2022)
    • Awarded the Juan Manuel Lozano Mejía diploma (2021)
    • Top 10 (7th out of 50) in the international theoretical physics competition PLANCKS, Porto (2021)
    • Mexican Tournament of Physics (Theoretical Physics):
      • 1st place (2021)
      • 1st place (2020)
    • PLANCKS competition preliminary (2021):
      • 1st place , 1st mexican team to attend to the PLANCKS competition
    • Honorific Mention, Physics Thesis Defense: Achieved the highest honor after succesfully defending my BSc thesis (2021)

Teaching Experience

2024
Teaching Assistant for Advance Particle Physics
  • Advanced particle physics topics at the International Center for Theoretical Physics
2023-2025
Teaching Assistant for Modern Physics and PHY 105N
  • Undergraduate modern physics topics and electromagnetism lab at the University of Texas at Austin
2019
Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Nuclear and subnuclear physics
  • Undergraduate level introduction to nuclear physics at National Autonomous University of Mexico
2022
Teaching Assistant for Thermodynamics
  • Undergraduate Thermodynamics class at National Autonomous University of Mexico

Computer skills

  • ○ Programming languages: Python, Julia, Mathematica, C++.

Volunteering Activities

  • 2017
    • Taught an introductory class in physics and mathematics for students interested in pursuing STEM degrees at Humanities and sciences school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
  • Other Interests

    • Hobbies: playing soccer, hiking, reading (cosmic horror, philosophy), videogames, problem solving