Curriculum Vitae – João Coelho 2019

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João Coelho Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL) Bâtiment 200, 91440 Orsay Email: coelho@lal.in2p3.fr

Research Experience CNRS / LAL - Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay, France) October 2017 - Present.

Associate scientist normal class (CNRS)

Member of the LHCb collaboration

Laboratoire APC - Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France) December 2015 - September 2017.

Post-doctoral Fellow funded by the IdEx Program of Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)

Member of KM3NeT/ORCA and ANTARES collaborations

Convener of the Simulations Group (2017)

High Energy Physics group - Tufts University (Medford - MA, USA) March 2012 - September 2015.

Post-doctoral Research Associate funded by the Department of Energy (DOE)

Deputy Analysis Coordinator in MINOS+ (2015)

Convener of Sterile Neutrino Group in MINOS+ (2013 - 2015)

Member of MINOS+, NOvA, DUNE and CHIPS experiments

Education PhD Physics, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, March 2008 - February 2012 (GPA: 4.0/4.01).

• Thesis Title: Investigation of Alternative Mechanisms to Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS

MSc Physics, UNICAMP, March 2006 - April 2008 (GPA: 4.0/4.01).

Teaching Lic. Physics, UNICAMP, August 2006 - December 2007 (GPA: 0.96/1.001).

BSc Physics, UNICAMP, March 2003 - December 2005 (GPA: 0.84/1.00 – ranked 5th / 105 students1).

Scientific mentoring

As a postdoc, I have contributed significantly as a mentor to the thesis research of the following PhD students:

1 PhD student in the APC ANTARES/KM3NeT group (2015 - 2017): o Simon Bourret (PhD advisor: Dr V. Van Elewyck) (2015 - 2018)

2 PhD students in the Tufts HEP group (2012 - 2015): o Travis Olson (PhD advisor: Prof. Hugh Gallagher) (2013 - Present) o Ozgur Altinok (PhD advisor: Prof. W. A. Mann) (2011 - 2017)

4 PhD students at Fermilab in the MINOS Sterile Neutrino group (2013 - 2015): o Jacob Todd, Univeristy of Cincinnati (PhD advisor: Dr A. Sousa) (2014 - 2018) o Navaneeth Poonthottathil, Fermilab (PhD advisor: Dr R. Plunkett) (2011 - 2016) o Ashley Timmons, University of Manchester (PhD advisor: Dr J. Evans) (2013 - 2016)

o Junting Huang, University of Texas Austin (PhD advisor: Prof. K. Lang) (2009 - 2015)

1 UNICAMP does not award honors distinction. Only the Grade Point Average (GPA) from all courses is given. For graduate

programs (masters and PhD) the GPA is defined on a scale of 0 to 4. For undergraduate programs the GPA is defined on a scale

of 0 to 1. The overall ranking among students of the same class is available only for undergraduate programs.

Summary Metrics: 76 published papers

H-index: 31

6 International plenary talks

1 First results release talk

14 internal notes

Curriculum Vitae – João Coelho 2019

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Selected Publications

1. J. A. B. Coelho et al., “Nonmaximal 23 mixing at NOvA from neutrino decoherence” Phys.Rev.Lett. 118, 221801 (2017)

First author of the paper. Extended the phenomenology to three flavours with matter effects and implemented fits and projections to existing and future data.

2. MINOS Collaboration, “Search for sterile neutrinos mixing with muon neutrinos in MINOS” Phys.Rev.Lett. 117, 151803 (2016)

Convener of Sterile Neutrino group in MINOS. One of the co-writers of the paper. Developed a large fraction of the analysis tools. Conceived the analysis method that allowed the extension of the sensitivity over 5 orders of magnitude in oscillation frequency.

3. MINOS & Daya Bay Collaborations, “Limits on active to sterile neutrino oscillations from disappearance searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 experiments” Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151801 (2016) – Selected as Editors’ Suggestion

Convener of Sterile Neutrino group in MINOS. Led the discussions on strategies to combine data from multiple experiments. Perform detailed studies of degenerate solutions which were crucial for obtaining correct limits at low mass splitting.

4. NOvA Collaboration, “First measurement of electron-neutrino appearance in NOvA” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151806 (2016)

Developed the automated algorithms that identify and remove periods of low quality data in each part of the modular detectors. Played a central role in defining the methods used to derive statistical significance to CP violation. Nominated as an internal reviewer of the paper.

5. MINOS Collaboration, “Combined analysis of disappearance and →e appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos” Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191801 (2014)

One of three co-writers of the paper. Wrote the section on the phenomenology of three-flavour oscillations. Created the oscillation probability calculators that enabled a significantly faster computation of Far Detector predictions, especially important for the atmospheric neutrino sample.

6. J. A. B. Coelho et al., “Constraints for non-standard interaction e Ve from e appearance in MINOS and T2K”

Phys. Rev. D 86, 113015 (2012)

First author of the paper. Extracted data from MINOS and T2K papers and public talks. Developed the whole analysis framework in Mathematica and performed all fits to the extracted data. Also worked on the phenomenology associated with non-standard interactions.

7. MINOS Collaboration, “Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS” Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181802 (2011)

Developed the framework for determining the flavour composition of the background using a data-driven method and computed associated systematic uncertainties. Estimated systematic uncertainties on the EM and Hadronic relative energy scales. Optimized “pre-selection” criteria.

8. MINOS Collaboration, “Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavour mixing by MINOS” Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 181801 (2011)

Developed an improved simulation of beam intensity per pulse based on profiles from data to account for possible pile-up effects varying over the experiments life-time.

As well as 67 other publications, see: <http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.A.B.Coelho.1>