quantum transport; graphene and two-dimensional materials; driven systems; light-matter interaction; Floquet theory; topological insulators

MENTORING EXPERIENCE (2012-2020)

PhD students

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Esteban Rodríguez Mena, with a doctoral fellowship granted by ConiCyT (Chile), August 2018-present (ongoing).

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Virginia Dal Lago, with a doctoral fellowship (CONICET), April 2013-present. Expected defense date: October 2017, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Pablo Perez Piskunow, with a doctoral fellowship (CONICET), April 2012-December 2015. The thesis "On the Effects of Radiation on the Transport Properties of Graphene" was successfully defended on December 1st, 2015, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Lucas Ingaramo, with a doctoral fellowship (CONICET), April 2011-September 2016. The thesis "Charge transport in carbon nanostructures in the presence of defects" was successfully defended on September 15, 2016, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Postdocs

. Director (Investigador Patrocinante) of Dr. José Mella Riquelme, postdoc funded by "FondeCyT Postdoctorado" grant number 3200697, April 2020 - present (FCFM, Universidad de Chile).

. Director (Investigador Patrocinante) of Dr. José Eduardo Barrios Vargas, postdoc funded by "FondeCyT Postdoctorado" grant number 3170126, March 2017 - 2018 (FCFM, Universidad de Chile). Then he moved to UNAM (Mexico) to take on a Professor position.

. Director (Investigador Patrocinante) of Dr. Matías Berdakin, postdoc funded by "FondeCyT Postdoctorado" grant number 3170143, March 2017 - March 2019 (FCFM, Universidad de Chile). He then moved to take on a Researcher Position at CONICET (Argentina)
. Director of the postdoctoral fellowship (CONICET) of Dr. Hernan L. Calvo, November 2013- March 2014 (now Researcher at CONICET, Argentina).

. Director of the postdoctoral fellowship (CONICET, Argentina) of Dr. Victoria Bracamonte, April 2013-March 2015 (then moved to the University of Trieste).

. Director of the postdoctoral fellowship (CONICET, Argentina) of Dr. Hernan L. Calvo, April 2010-December 2010 (then moved to RWTH Aachen-Germany).

Early-stage researchers

. Director of Dr. Hernan L. Calvo, Assistant researcher at CONICET, Argentina (tenure-track), April 2014 - December 2016.

. Co-director of Dr. Victoria Bracamonte, Assistant researcher at CONICET, Argentina (tenure-track), April 2016-June 2017.

Masters' Thesis

. Director of the Magister thesis of José Luis Chesta López, 2018 – November 2019, defended in November 2019.

. Co-tutor of the Magister thesis of Juan Pablo Ramos Andrade, UCN, Chile, July 2012-April 2013, defended in April 2013.

. Director of the undergraduate thesis (Masters' level) of Pablo Perez Piskunow, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, April 2011-March 2012, defended on March 2012.

. Director of the undergraduate thesis (Masters' level) of Lucas Ingaramo, April 2010-March 2011, defended in March 2011.

TEACHING

I have taught courses in Physics, Mathematics and Materials Science to students across different disciplines in four countries (Argentina, France, Germany and Chile).
These courses include Solid State Physics, Quantum Transport, Quantum Mechanics and Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science.

I have carried out different outreach activities. This includes three main axes:

(i) Talks for the general public and also at schools, these talks usually try to convey a feeling for science and the role it has and may have in society and its future. Examples of these activities: talks on topics including "quantum computing for beginners", "graphene and the golden age of new materials" within the program of open talks at the University of Chile (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) https://twitter.com/genesis1979/status/1159148143755300865; similar talks at schools within the program EXPLORA of the Chilean government and also for the Argentine Foundation for Nanotechnology (FAN);

(ii) Promoting science through articles, opinions, and interviews in the media (written and also on TV). This includes several notes for local newspapers (such as La Voz del Interior (Argentina) and La Tercera (Chile)), tv (Mega (Chile) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kFbYvrXksg), and also magazines such as "América Economía" (Chile).

(iii) Promoting science through videos. In 2011 we produced one video on graphene, available in youtube both in Spanish and English ("Grafeno: tan lejos, tan cerca", "Graphene: Faraway, so close" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a60xAjM4spo) with more than 100 thousand views for the Spanish version.