Rodrigo Antonio Soto Bertran
Full professor
DEPARTAMENTO DE FISICA, FCFM, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
Kinetic theory Statistical mechanics Computational physics Fluid dynamics and granular fluids Active matter
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Licenciado en Ciencias mencion Fisica, Universidad de Chile. Chile, 1994
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Doctor en Ciencias mencion Fisica, Universidad de Chile. Chile, 1998
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Full professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas
Santiago, Chile
2001 - At present
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Postdoc Other
Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique el Moleculaire (CECAM-ENS Lyon)
Lyon, Francia
1998 - 2001
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Visiting professor Other
Universidad Complutense
Madrid, España
2005 - 2006
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Visiting professor Other
University of Oxford
Oxford, Reino Unido
2012 - 2013
PhD thesis
• Alejandra Alvarez, PhD in Physics, 2005. Title “Particle dynamics in a confined fluid”
• Francisca Guzman, PhD in Fluiddynamics, 2012. Title “Difusión en suspensiones activas y pasivas”
• Eduardo Rojas, PhD in Fluiddynamics, 2015. Title “Reología de medios granuales densos con dependencia temporal”
• Gabriel Ramos, PhD in Physics, 2020. Title: “Confined bacterial suspensions”
• Cristián Villalobos, PhD in Physics, in progress. Title: “Fluctuations in confined bacterial suspensions”
• Fernanda Perez, PhD in Physics, in progress. Title: “Non-polarized epithelial tissues"
Master thesis in physics
• Marcos Sotomayor, 2002. Title “Estudios Numéricos de Transiciones Solido-Liquido”
• Francisco Mena, 2008. Title “Sedimentiation an fluctuations in a confined suspension”
• J. Sebastián González, 2008. Title “Efficient algorithm to simulate dense granular flows”
• Jocelyn Dunstan, 2010. Title “Modelo hidrodinámico de bacterias interactuando con superficies y partículas micrométricas”
• Nicolás Rivas, 2012. Title “Segregación en una superficie granular vibrada”
• Cesar Parra, 2013. Title “Fuerzas de Casimir en suspensiones bacterianas”
• Marcelo Guzman, 2018. Title “Rheology of dense bacterial suspensions”
• Susana Marquez, 2018. Title “Physical models of cell migration with non-polarized morphology”
• Leonardo Leiva, in progress. Title “Phase transitions in discrete models of active matter"
Engineering thesis
• Lissette Cabrera, 2012. Computer science "Visualizador de Sistemas de Partículas en 2D y 3D". Co-directed with Nancy Hitschfeld
• Yonathan Nowogrodski, 2004. Material science "Estudio Numérico de Dislocaciones en Cobre"
Internships
Several students at different levels of formation (BSc, MSc and PhD) from Universidad de Chile, University of Chicago (USE), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris (France), Polytech Clermont-Ferrand (France) and Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (France).
Invited professor in
• 2014 PASI School on the “Frontiers in Particulate Media: From Fundamentals to Applications”, La Plata, Argentina. "Kinetic theory and granular hydrodynamics"
• 2014 Invited teacher at the MSc program at Universidad del Bio-Bio, Concepción, Chile "Teoría de Campos Fluctuantes"
• 2012 PASI School on the “Frontiers in Casimir Physics”, Ushuaia, Argentina. "Fluctuation thermally-induced forces"
• 2007 Minicurse in the SCAT Workshop, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile. "Simulaciones dinámica molecular de fluidos granulares"
• 2005 Invited teacher at the Master II program in Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France. "Dynamique de Sistemes Granulaires"
• 2005 Invited teacher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. "Sistemas fuera del equilibrio"
Encargado de divulgación en Núcleo Milenio Física de la Materia Activa, donde realizamos cápsulas de divulgación, charlas a público general y los Diálogos Científicos.
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Best doctoral thesis
ACADEMIA CHILENA DE CIENCIAS
Chile, 1998
Prize for the best doctoral thesis in science in 1998 by the Chilean Academy of Sciences
DISCRETE MODELS OF ACTIVE MATTER |
Active fluids in confined environments |
Nucleo Milenio Fisica de la Materia Activa |
Non-equilibrium phenomena in active particulate systems |
DYNAMICS OF CONFINED GRANULAR FLUIDS |
Ecos=> Transport in active suspensions and dense granular matter |
Dynamics of disordered and heterogeneous media |
Fluctuations in non-perturbative out of equilibrium particulate systems |
Hydrodynamics of Passive and Active Suspensions in a Confined Geometry |
COLLECTIVE DESCRIPTION OF GRANULAR FLUIDS |
FLUCTUATIONS AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM SUSPENSIONS. |
SCAT, Scientific Computing Advance Training |
CIMAT=> Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials Sciences |
CONTINUUM DESCRIPTION OF FLUIDS UNDER EXTREME NON-EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS. |
STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF GRANULAR FLUIDS |