Javier Santaolalla

Javier Santaolalla Camino (born 31 August 1982) is a Spanish physicist, engineer, doctor in particle physics and scientific popularizer.^[1] He has worked at the National Center for Space Studies in France, CIEMAT and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where he was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson through the Large Hadron Collider from CMS Experiment.^[2]

Javier Santaolalla
Javier Santaolalla in 2022
Born	Javier Santaolalla Camino (1982-08-31) 31 August 1982 (age 43) Burgos, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Education	National University of Distance Education Complutense University of Madrid University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Occupation(s)	Scientific disseminator, physicist and telecommunications engineer
Employer	CERN
YouTube information
Channel	Date un Vlog
Years active	2016–present
Genre	Science
Subscribers	4 million
Views	1000 million
Last updated: 14 October 2024[needs update]

Biography

Javier Santaolalla Camino was born in Burgos, Spain. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria^[3] and has a degree in physical sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. After being accepted at CERN to study for a master's degree, he received his doctorate in particle physics, also from the UCM, in 2012, with a thesis on electroweak processes in muon decay in the CMS experiment at the LHC.^[4] He has also coordinated the educational innovation project Creations, funded by the European Union.^[5]

Along with Santi García Cremades, Ana Payo Payo and Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, he is a member of the Big Van Ciencia group since 2013, dedicated to scientific outreach events.^[6] He participates in Órbita Laika,^[7] a late night science of scientific popularizer and humor talk show broadcast on the Spanish network La 2.^[8] He is the creator of the YouTube channels Date un voltio, Date un vlog, Date Un Show.^[9][10] For his scientific humor monologue for the Famelab contest, he received the 2015 Aquae Award.^[11] He has been described by Infolibre as "the greatest Spanish scientific popularizer on the web".^[12] Since February 2021,^[13] together with La gata de Schrödinger, he has presented the program Whaat!? How do you see it, from the RTVE digital platform, playz.^[14][15]

Selected works

• Santaolalla, Javier (2016). El bosón de Higgs no te va a hacer la cama (in Spanish). La Esfera de los Libros. p. 369. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
• Santaolalla, Javier (2017). Inteligencia Física (in Spanish). Plataforma. p. 159. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
• Santaolalla, Javier (2022) ¿Qué hace un bosón como tú en un Big Bang como este?^[16] p. 404 ISBN 9788413843902

As co-author

• Big, Van (2016). Cómo explicar física cuántica a un gato zombi (in Spanish). Alfaguara. p. 198. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
• Big, Van (2016). ¿Si venimos del mono?, del mono vendrás tú, yo vengo de Adán y Eva (in Spanish). La Esfera de los libros. p. 198. Retrieved 16 July 2020.