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.