Marvin M. Flores

Associate Professor

Dr. Marvin M. Flores obtained his BS Physics degree from Silliman University graduating summa cum laude (March 22, 2009). He finished his MS degree (October 2012) and obtained his PhD (July 2016) in Physics from the National Institute of Physics. He was awarded the Most Outstanding PhD Graduate of the College of Science. He was also the recipient of the NAST Talent Search for Young Scientists in 2021. In 2025, he was awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN.

Dr. Flores did his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on particle physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, under a grant from The World Academy of Sciences and the Faculty, REPS and Administrative Staff Development Program (FRASDP) Postdoctoral Research Grant from UP Diliman.

Dr. Flores is the Team Leader of the CERN – ATLAS Collaboration in the country and is the first Filipino member of the collaboration that is based in the Philippines. He heads the High Energy Physics & Phenomenology subgroup of the GANAP (Gravity, Astronomy, Nuclear, and Particle) Physics Group at NIP. Dr. Flores is actively pursuing searches of collider physics signatures beyond the Standard Model for signs of supersymmetry, extra dimensions, dark matter, and others.

Publications

1.  The ATLAS Collaboration, “ATLAS Run 2 searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles interpreted within the pMSSM”, Journal of High Energy Physics, 106 (2024), doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05%282024%29106
2. M. Flores, J.S. Kim, K. Rolbiecki, R. Ruiz de Austri Bazan, “Updated LHC bounds on MUED after run 2”, International Journal of Modern Physics A (2023), doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X23500021
3. K. du Plessis, M. M. Flores, D. Kar, S. Sinha, H. van der Schyf, “Hitting two BSM particles with one lepton-jet: search for a top partner decaying to a dark photon, resulting in a lepton-jet”, SciPost Phys. 13, 018 (2022), doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.13.2.018
4. M. Flores, C. Gross, J.S. Kim, O. Lebedev, S. Mondal, “Multi-higgs boson probes of the dark sector”, Physical Review D, 102, 015004 (2020), doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.015004
5.  M. Flores, D. Kar, J.S. Kim, “Constraining Stealth SUSY with illuminated fat jets at the LHC”, Physics Letters B, 801, 135151, (2019), doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135151
6. M. Flores, E. Galapon, “Mixtures of maximally entangled pure states”, Annals of Physics, 372, p. 297, (2016), doi:10.1016/j.aop.2016.05.018
7. M. Flores, E. Galapon, “Two qubit entanglement preservation through the addition of qubits”, Annals of Physics, 354, p. 21, (2015), doi:10.1016/j.aop.2014.11.011

Fields of interest: Particle physics phenomenology, Experimental high energy physics