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Prof. Dr. Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia
addressMax-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK)
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Saupfercheckweg 1
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
emailteresa.marrodan@mpi-hd.mpg.de
phone+ 49 (0)6221 516-803
Executive Assistant: Anja Berneiser, -801
researchdark matter, neutrino physics, proton decay, low-background experiments, liquid xenon, detector R&D

Main Responsibilities

XENON Experiment

 
  • Principal Investigator
  • Editorial Board Chair
 

XLZD Experiment

 
  • Principal Investigator
  • Speakers Office
 

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

 

 
  • Group Leader
  • Comissioner for compatibility of work and family
  • Ombudsperson since 2023
  • PhD contact person
 

Academic History

2014 Habilitation: Revealing the nature of dark matter with XENON at the "Universität Heidelberg" 
From 2012 Permanent scientific staff (group leader since 2017) at the "Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik" (MPIK), Heidelberg 
2009-2012 Postdoc at the "Universität Zürich", Switzerland, Dark matter search with XENON100: analysis and operations, XENON1T R&D; liquid xenon properties 
2008 Postdoc at the "TU München", LENA and LAGUNA projects 
2005-2008 PhD thesis at the Technical University of Munich
Supervisor: Prof. L. Oberauer
Title: “Measurements of light emission in organic liquid scintillators and search for proton decay in the future large-scale detector LENA at the TU München”
 
2005-2008 International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) on elementary particle physics for PhD students at the "Max-Planck-Institut für Physik" 
2004-2005 Diploma thesis: Search for proton decay in LENA at the "TU München" 
2004 "Licenciatura" (like Master of Science) in physics at the "Universidad Complutense de Madrid", Spain 
2003-2004 Erasmus exchange at the "Technische Universität München" 
2001-2002 Séneca exchange at the "Universitat de Valencia", Spain 
1997-2004 Physics studies at the "Universidad Complutense de Madrid", Spain 

Awards

2025 Professor by special appointment at the University of Amsterdam 
2023 Teaching award, physics and astronomy faculty, University of Heidelberg 
2009-2010 Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation at Universität Zürich 

Academic Engagement (selection)

2023 Editor of the special issue: Experimental challenges in the direct search for dark matter 
2022 Panel member for research applications at the Academy of Finland’s Research council 
2022 Panel member for the Ramón y Cajal tenure-track program of the Spanish Research Agency 
From 2021 Scientific committee member of the CAPA institute, Zaragoza, Spain 
From 2020 Executive board member of the IMPRS-PTFS PhD school 
2019-2025 Scientific committee member (chair 2023-2025) of the "Laboratorio subterráneo de Canfranc", Spain 
From 2018 Referee for research grants (ERC, DFG, Canada foundation of innovation) and journals (PLB, JPhyG, JINST, NIMA, PRL, EPJC, PhysRevRes)  
From 2014 Elected member of the XENON editorial board (chair since 2026) 
2008 Committee for equal opportunities, Physics Department, "TU München" 
1998-2001 Student representative at the "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" 

Publications

 

Selection

 

 

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WIMP Dark Matter Search Using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment
XENON Collaboration, PRL 135 (2025) 22, 221003
 

 

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First Indication of Solar B8Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT
XENON Collaboration, PRL 133 (2024) 191002
 

 

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First time-resolved measurement of infrared scintillation light in gaseous xenon
M. Piotter, D. Cichon, R. Hammann, F. Jörg, L. Hötzsch and T. Marrodán Undagoitia, EPJC 83 (2023) 6, 482
 

 

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Characterization of alpha and beta interactions in liquid xenon
F. Jörg, D. Cichon, G. Eurin, L. Hötzsch, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, et N. Rupp, EPJC 82 (2022) 4, 361
 

 

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Dark matter direct-detection experiments
T. Marrodán Undagoitia and L. Rauch, J. Phys. G 43 (2016) 013001
 

 

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Lowering the radioactivity of the photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T dark matter experiment
XENON Collaboration, EPJC 75 (2015) 11, 546
 

 

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Neutrino physics with multi-ton scale liquid xenon detectors
L. Baudi, A. Ferella, A. Kish, A. Manalaysay, T. Marrodán Undagoitia and M. Schumann, JCAP 01 (2014) 044
 

 

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Search for the proton decay p -> K+ anti-nu in the large liquid scintillator low energy neutrino astronomy detector LENA
T. Marrodán Undagoitia, et al., PRD 72 (2005) 075014
 

 

   

 

Full list of publications in iNSPIRE & ORCiD
Publications from the Astroparticle Physics Division
 

Lectures, seminars, tutorials & schools

2025

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Experimentalphysik I (PEP I)

Seminar ‘Astroparticle physics’

Lectures 'Dark Matter', KSETA school, Karlsruhe 

 
2024

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Experimentalphysik I (PEP I)

Experimental methods in astroparticle physics

 
2023

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Experimentalphysik I (PEP I)

Seminar ‘Looking for the Invisible: Neutrinos and Dark Matter’

Lectures 'Detection Techniques: Neutrinos and Dark Matter', GraSPA school, Annecy, France

 
2022

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Experimental Methods in Astropartical Physics

 
2021

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Experimentalphysik I (PEP I)

Neutrino physics: theory and experiment

 
2020

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Lectures 'Liquid xenon detectors' at the HighRR lecture week, University of Heidelberg 

Experimental methods in astroparticle physics: dark matter and neutrinos properties

 
2019

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Experimental methods in astroparticle physics: cosmic rays, neutrino astrophysics, CMB and Grav. waves

Experimentalphysik II (PEP2)

 
2018

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Dark matter(LSF)

Experimentalphysik II (PEP2)

 
2017

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Experimentalphysik II (PEP2)

Lectures 'Detection Techniques for Neutrinos and Dark Matter', Invisibles school, Murten, Switzerland

 
2016

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Dark matter

 
2015

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Dark matter   (LSF)

Experimentalphysik II (PEP2)

Lectures 'Dark Matter searches', Graduate School 'Symmetry Breaking in Fundamental Interactions', Bad Kreuznach

 
2014

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Dark Matter: Theory and Experiment 

Experimentalphysik II (PEP2)

 
2013

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Current topics in astroparticle physics: theory and experiment 

Neutrino Physics: Theory and experiment

 
Teaching before 2013 (at Technische Universität München and Universität Zürich) is not listed here