Yohei Ema is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota. He obtained his M.S. in Physics from the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2015 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2018. In 2020, he received the 15th Young Scientist Award from the Physical Society of Japan. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Postdoc at DESY Theory Group, in Hamburg, Germany. Since 2021, he has been a Postdoc at University of Minnesota, MN, USA. His research keywords include particle physics and cosmology.
Marcos Garcia is currently a Tenure Track faculty member at Instituto de Física of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He obtained his M.S. in Physics in 2010 from Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM; a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics in 2011 from Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM; and a Ph.D. in Physics (High-Energy Theory) in 2016 from University of Minnesota. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics and Astronomy) at Rice University. In 2021, he joined Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research is primarily focused on the connection between particle physics and cosmology. This includes, among other things, the embedding of inflation into extensions of the Standard Model; the dynamics of dark matter production in the early Universe; the application of stochastic transport theory to inflation; the gravitational wave emission of the mergers of clumps of (axion) dark matter; and the phenomenology of Lorentz symmetry breaking.
