Professor Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic from Michigan State University in Michigan, USA, will be visiting IFIC as a Severo Ochoa Distinguished Visitor from 14 April to 26 May 2026.

Professor Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic is a professor of experimental nuclear physics at Michigan State University in Michigan, USA. He earned his PhD in nuclear spectroscopy at the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He then held a postdoctoral position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, followed by a position as a scientific collaborator. Since 1999, he has been a professor at the University of Caen Normandy in France. From his postdoctoral position onwards, he has specialised in precision measurements at low energies, using polarised nuclei to test discrete symmetries in beta decay (maximal parity violation, time-reversal invariance, and conservation of the vector current) and polarised muons to measure an asymmetry-polarisation correlation in muon decay. In Caen, he led a project to measure beta-neutrino correlations from radioactive ions confined in a transparent Paul trap at the Grand Accélérateur d'Ions Lourds. He was also involved in measuring the neutron lifetime using polarised neutrons confined in a magneto-gravitational trap, and is a member of the collaboration measuring the neutron electric dipole moment at the Paul Scherrer Institute. His current activities focus on searching for CP violation in ortho-positronium decay using a detector array that is under construction, and searching for exotic interactions in beta decay through precision measurements of beta-energy spectra.

On 12 May at 12:00 (Europe/Madrid), he will give a talk at the IFIC Seminar entitled "Improved search for CP violation in ortho-positronium decay".

On 30 April at 12:30 (Europe/Madrid), he will give a talk at the IFIC SO Colloquia entitled "Search for exotic interactions in nuclear beta decay".

His office at IFIC is located at 1.3.2.