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Dr Paolo Beltrame SJ was born in Rome. In 2004 he graduated in elementary particle physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza. From 2005 to 2009 he studied for his PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, working on “g-2”, the most precise measurement ever made by man. He obtained his PhD in 2009 and then moved to CERN in Geneva. There he collaborated on the experiment that led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. Over the following two years he was at UCLA in California, where he worked on the direct search for dark matter, and then in Israel, at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2014 he moved to Edinburgh, where he together with his students studied the “axion models”. Axions are a type of particle predicted by theories that go beyond currently known physics and that could offer the solution to the dark matter conundrum. In 2017 he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Birmingham and in 2019 took the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience within the Society of Jesus. He is currently in Paris where he is completing his theology studies, while also continuing to participate in various scientific collaborations for a more complete understanding of our universe, how it came into being, how it evolves and how it might one day end.
