Yael is a Ph.D. student at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. Since joining the ALICE Collaboration in 2019, he has been actively involved in the development, commissioning, operation, and performance studies of scintillator-based detectors, particularly within the FIT-FDD subdetector and the proposed Muon Identifier (MID) detector for ALICE 3. Over the years, he has contributed extensively to FDD detector operation, maintenance, calibration, performance monitoring, and aging studies, gaining broad experience in detector stability and long-term operation during Run 3. As part of his service tasks within the FIT group, he regularly participates in detector operations, troubleshooting, and performance studies; has served multiple times as FIT on-call; and contributes to asynchronous Quality Control checks and detector performance validation for both the FDD and FT0 detectors during Run 3.
His Ph.D. research focuses on the proposed MID detector for ALICE 3, including the construction and characterization of scintillator prototypes, DAQ system development, and active participation in MID beam tests. His contributions include detector operation, commissioning activities, beam test coordination, and data analysis of the first MID prototype chambers.
Since 2022, he has participated in Run 3 data-taking in both pp and Pb–Pb collisions, serving in several central roles, including Shift Leader, DCS, and ECS shifts. In 2025, he completed his first mandate as Run Manager, coordinating the pp production period at 500 kHz with the ALICE magnets operating in a negative/negative configuration.
This year, during his second Run Manager mandate, he will continue contributing to the coordination and smooth operation of ALICE data-taking activities while also supervising the ion commissioning phase for the heavy-ion run and the data-taking activities during the Pb–Pb collisions.
