Graduate in Physics and Master in Condensed Matter Physics from the Federal University of Alagoas and Doctor in Physics from the State University of Campinas, Brazil.
Postdoc in the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Since 2018 she is a postdoctoral researcher in the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter, Chile. In this last place, she will be conducting experiments in microfluidic devices with Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens soil bacteria.
This Brazilian Doctor of Physics has participated in two international conferences and has four publications. Her areas of investigation are fluorescence microscopy, confocal Raman microscopy, fabrication of PDMS microfluidics, 3D printed microfluidics, modification of the surface by chemical treatment, and manipulation of biomaterials.
Postdoctoral researchers
Moniellen Pires
Óscar Paredes-Altuve
Graduated in Chemistry from Los Andes University, Mérida, and doctor in Physics from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas.
The Dispersions and Interfaces Laboratory was the place in which Óscar completed his postdoctoral studies. This laboratory is part of the Interdisciplinary Study of Physics Center (CEIF) of the IVIC. His areas of investigation are stochastic thermodynamics, Brownian motion, active matter, fluctuation theorems, the second law of thermodynamics and stochastic processes.
This Venezuelan Doctor in Physics, who has worked as a professor in the IVIC, has participated in 13 workshops and conferences and has three publications, plus two other articles he is preparing.
Since 2018 he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter, where he seeks to study and describe the thermodynamics of this area.
Pablo de Castro
Graduate and master in Physics of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, and Doctor of Physics of the King’s College of London, England. In this last place he wrote his thesis: “Phase
separation of polydisperse fluids” which was approved with maximum distinction and recommended for the university best thesis award.
He has seven publications besides been a professor of the Federal University of Pernambuco between 2012 and 2014 and participated in more than 20 international conferences in South America and Europe.
Since April of 2019, he has been a postdoctoral researcher of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter of the University of Chile, where he studies the formation of patterns inducted by motility in dense fluids of self-propelled particles like bacteria and active colloids.
Andrea Villa
Graduate in Physics of the University of Zulia, Venezuela, and Doctor of Physics of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), the entity where she worked on her thesis “Non-translational answers of soft Brownian particles.”
She counts with four publications and two articles in preparation. Besides, she has participated in nine international conferences in South America and Europe. During her doctorate, and because of her outstanding academic record, she received the excellence fellowship.
Since March 2019, she is a postdoctoral researcher of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter of the University of Chile, where she seeks to study the dynamics of active colloids.
In 2021, she was awarded a postdoctoral Fondecyt fund. The aim of it is to contribute to the development of a general theory for bacterial suspensions.
Ex investigadores Postdoctorales
Sebastián González
Bachelor and Master in Sciences with mention in Physics of the University of Chile, and Doctor of the Universiteit Twente, of Holland (2013).
He has six publications in scientific journals and his fields of research are granular matter, computational physics and simulations based in particles.
He currently is a postdoctoral researcher of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter where he will work in active and colloidal suspensions.
Francisca Guzmán
Graduate from Science, mention in Physics and Fluid Dynamics doctor from the University of Chile (2012).
Francisca completed postdoctoral studies in Theoretical Physics, Soft Matter at the Heinrich-Heine Düsseldorf University, Germany, and the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter, Chile. She worked as a professor at the Physics Department of the universities of Chile and Santiago and as visiting researcher at the ESPCI, France.
She is currently professor at the Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, of the University of Chile, and principal researcher of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter.
Felipe Aguilar
Graduate in Applied Physics, Physical Engineer and Doctor in Sciences with mention in Physics of the University of Santiago of Chile. Worked his thesis at École Normale Superieure of Lyon, France.
He is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Santiago, working in the adaptation of an AFM interferometric microscope for measurements in the field of biophysics and liquid media, and currently leads a postdoctoral Fondecyt-UChile project, “AFM interferometry of active colloids”.
With ten publications in scientific journals, he is a postdoctoral researcher of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter
Nicolás Rivas
Bachelor and Master in Sciences, mention in Physics from the University of Chile and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Twente, Holland.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Helmholtz Research Institute, in Nuremberg, Germany, where he leads a team studying electrokinetic systems. At 2018, Nicolas completed postdoctoral studies in the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter.