Phone(s): (56-2) 9787276 , (56-2) 271 2973
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile.
Las Palmeras 3425, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.
Professional Degree
B. S. in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park (1991).
B. S. in Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park (1991).
B. S. in Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park (1991).
M.S. in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park (1996).
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park (1997).
Research Areas
Nano-clusters.
Complex systems.
Astrophysical plasma.
National and International Committees and Honors
The 1998 F. L. Scarf Award for best Ph.D. Dissertation, American Geophysical Union most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in Space Physics and Aeronomy.
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-1999), NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt.
Proposal reviewer for
NASA, USA.
National Science Foundation, USA.
Natural Environment Research Council, USA.
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Conicyt/Fondecyt Chile.
Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, Chile.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Conicet, Argentina.
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, ANPyCT, Argentina.
Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Autónoma de México.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO, Netherlands.
Mecesup (Ministerio de Educacion, Chile).
Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Paper reviewer for
Geophysical Research Letters.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
Radio Science.
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
Geophysical Monograph.
Space Science Reviews.
Advances of Space Research.
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics.
New Journal of Physics.
Physica A.
Earth, Planets and Space.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Societies
American Geophysical Union (AGU).
American Physical Society (APS).
Asociación Latinoamericana de Geofísica Espacial (ALAGE).
Sociedad Chilena de Física.
Guided Undergraduate Thesis (Since 2006)
Undegraduate: A. Fritz (2005-2006), Simulación de un Horno de plasma, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
Projects
Principal Investigator (2010-2014), Conicyt Grant “Programa de Financiamiento Basal” 2009, Chile, Centro para el desarrollo de la Nanociencia y Nanotecnología.
Principal Investigator (2008-2009), Programa de cooperación Científica Internacional CNPq/CONICYT 2007 (Folio 2007-162), Simulación y análisis de turbulencia en plasmas en la conexión Sol-Tierra.
Principal Investigator (2007-2010), Fondecyt regular Grant 2007 (1070854), Chile: SELF-ORGANIZATION PROCESSES IN PLASMAS, AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE EARTHS MAGNETOSPHERIC DYNAMICS.
Co-Investigator (2007-2010), Fondecyt regular Grant 2007 (1070131), Chile: THE RELEVANCE OF TURBULENCE IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE OF THE EARTH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH GEOMAGNETIC STORMS AND SUBSTORMS.
International Researcher (2007-2011), Colciencias Grant 2007, Colombia: Center of Excellence in Complex-System Research: Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Básicos y Aplicados en Complejidad (CEIBA).
Co-Investigator (2005-2008), Fondecyt regular Grant 2005 (1050350), Chile: Effect of finite amplitude waves on linear waves. Ion cyclotron waves in drifting multi-ion species plasmas. Stability of a magnetoplasma with cross field currents.
Principal Investigator (2003-2006), Fondecyt regular Grant 2003 (1030727), Chile: The relevance of global self-organization processes in plasmas and the relationship with the dynamics of the magnetotail.
Co-Investigator (2002-2004), Fondecyt regular Grant 2002 (1020152), Chile: Properties and dynamics of nonlinear electromagnetic beam-plasma waves, and the stability of magnetoplasma with cross-field currents.
Principal Investigator (2000-2002), Fondecyt regular Grant 2000 (1000808), Chile: Modeling self-organized criticality in the turbulent plasma sheet: its relation to the coherence and repeatability of the substorm phenomena.
Co-Investigator (1998-2000) , NASA Grant 1998, USA: The role of self-Organized Criticality in the Substorm Phenomena and its relation to Localized reconnection in the Magnetospheric Plasma Sheet.
Co-Investigator (1998-2000) , NASA Grant 1998, USA: Nonlinear modeling of high-latitude electrodynamics and midlatitude currents, and prediction from real-time solar wind data.
Conferences (2006 to date)
2009 (November) Solidos 2009, Valparaiso, Chile.
2009 (October) International Living With a Star 2009, Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
2009 (July) The 9th International School for Space Simulations, Paris. France.
2009 (June) Modern Challenges in Nonlinear Plasma Physics, Halkidiki, Greece.
2009 (January) The Nonlinear Magnetosphere, Viña del Mar, Chile.
2009 (January) Latin American School on Computational Materials Science, Santiago Chile.
2008 (November) XVI Simposio Chileno de Fisica de la Sociedad Chilena de Física, Valparaíso, Chile.
2008 (October) Informs Annual Meeting. Washington D.C, USA.
2007 (November) 50a Reunión Anual de la Soc. de Biología. de Chile, Pucon, Chile.
2007 (October) The World Space Environment Forum 2007, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.
2007 (August) 40 Years of Pulsars, Mcgill, Montreal, Canada.
2007 (July) 4th annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geoscience Society, Bangkok, Thailand.
2007 (July) Dynamics Days Europe 2007, Loughborough University, England.
2007 (June) PASI 2007 Electronic Structure and Excitations on Nanostructures, Zacatecas, Mexico.
2007 (March) 51st Annual Meeting of the Biological Society, Baltimore, USA.
2007 (March) American Physical Society, March Meeting, Denver, USA.
2006 (December) XXIII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Melbourne, Australia.
2006 (November) 5ta Reunion Anual de la Sociedad Chile de Astronomia, La Serena, Chile.
2006 (November) XV Reunion de la Sociedad Chilena de Fisica, Santiago, Chile.
2006 (August) V Jornada de Mecánica Computacional, Concepcion, Chile.