2026 Michael Backes: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	78	3153	2996	277	267	457	25120

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Physics

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Overview

Michael Backes is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their work spans several fields of study, mainly focusing on Physics and Astronomy as well as Computer Science.

Their research covers multiple specialized subfields, including:

Artificial Intelligence
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing

Key topics in their research portfolio are:

Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

They have contributed to numerous scientific papers published in reputable venues. Some of their recent papers include:

Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning, 2021, Nature
Revealing x-ray and gamma ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow, 2021, Science
BadNL: Backdoor Attacks against NLP Models with Semantic-preserving Improvements, 2021, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Time-resolved hadronic particle acceleration in the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi, 2022, Science
Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals in the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey, 2022, Physical Review Letters

The researcher collaborates frequently with several peers including V. Barbosa Martins, E. Kasai, A. Chen, J. Bolmont, and B. Khélifi. These collaborations have resulted in a significant number of joint works.

Their research outputs have appeared in a variety of publication venues which include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference - PoS(ICRC2021)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Best Publications

Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics

G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

2634
Citations
Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott

2427
Citations
Search for squarks and gluinos using final states with jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in root s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions

G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

715
Citations
Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from a Distant Quasar: How Transparent Is the Universe?

J Albert;E Aliu;H Anderhub

647
Citations
Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre

A. Abramowski;F. Aharonian;Faical Ait Benkhali;A. G. Akhperjanian

569
Citations
Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

B.S. Acharya;I. Agudo;I. Al Samarai

498
Citations
Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

486
Citations
MAGIC discovery of VHE Emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+21

J. Aleksić;L. Antonelli;P. Antoranz;M. Backes

467
Citations
MAGIC DISCOVERY OF VERY HIGH ENERGY EMISSION FROM THE FSRQ PKS 1222+21

J. Aleksić;L. A. Antonelli;P. Antoranz;M. Backes

427
Citations
Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Markarian 421: The Missing Piece of its Spectral Energy Distribution

A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;L. Baldini

412
Citations
Performance of the MAGIC stereo system obtained with Crab Nebula data

J. Aleksić;E.A. Alvarez;L.A. Antonelli;P. Antoranz

394
Citations
Phase-resolved energy spectra of the Crab Pulsar in the range of 50-400 GeV measured with the MAGIC Telescopes

J. Aleksić;E. A. Alvarez;L. A. Antonelli;P. Antoranz

381
Citations
Radio Imaging of the Very-High-Energy gamma-Ray Emission Region in the Central Engine of a Radio Galaxy

V.A. Acciari;E. Aliu;T. Arlen;M. Bautista

330
Citations
Probing quantum gravity using photons from a flare of the active galactic nucleus Markarian 501 observed by the MAGIC telescope

J. Albert;E. Aliu;H. Anderhub;L.A. Antonelli

314
Citations
Insights into the high-energy γ-ray emission of Markarian 501 from extensive multifrequency observations in the Fermi era

A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

298
Citations
Observation of Pulsed γ-Rays Above 25 GeV from the Crab Pulsar with MAGIC

E. Aliu;H. Anderhub;L. A. Antonelli;P. Antoranz

293
Citations
A very-high-energy component deep in the γ-ray burst afterglow

H. Abdalla;R. Adam;F. Aharonian;F. Aharonian;F. Ait Benkhali

271
Citations
Design and operation of FACT - the first G-APD Cherenkov telescope

H. Anderhub;M. Backes;A. Biland;Vittorio Boccone

268
Citations
Improving the performance of the single-dish Cherenkov telescope MAGIC through the use of signal timing

E. Aliu;H. Anderhub;L.A. Antonelli;P. Antoranz

256
Citations
Automated Verification of Remote Electronic Voting Protocols in the Applied Pi-Calculus

Michael Backes;Catalin Hritcu;Matteo Maffei

247
Citations