Education & Professional Career

September 2022 - ...

September 2021 - August 2022

Temporary teaching and research associate (ATER)

Aix- Marseille University, Marseille, France.

June 2019 - 2021

Postdoctoral researcher

Aix- Marseille University, Marseille, France.

January 2014 - December 2016

PhD in Physics (Milieux dilués et optique fondamentale). Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France.

Thesis title: “Molecules and complexes with hydrogen bond: solvation and photoreactivity in cryogenic matrices”

Supervisor: Prof. Claudine Crépin-Gilbert.

December 2012 - October 2013

MSc. in Chemistry (Physical-Chemistry). Chemistry Faculty. Havana University, La Habana, Cuba.

Thesis title: “Photodynamic processes upon Rydberg excitation of Nitrogen Monoxide in Ne solid matrix”

Supervisor: Prof. Germán Rojas Lorenzo

September 2006 - July 2011

Bachelor in Radiochemistry (Summa cum Laude). Higher Institute of Technologies & Applied Sciences, La Habana, Cuba.

Thesis Title: “Solid film formation on SDS:CTAB catanionic system with potential for encapsulating compounds of interest”

Supervisor: PhD. Aurora Pérez Gramatges

Awards & Funding

2026 - 2028

180k€ from E2S/UPPA funding related to "Challenge scientifique" project MIRAGE (France).

2022 - 2027

200k€ from ANR funding related to the Chaire Professeur Junior position (France).

2019 - 2022 

9500€ from PHC-Gilibert for mobility expenses with the project "Effects of matrix confinement on molecular flexibility". (Principal Participant)

2017 - 2019 

“Profesor Tiza de Oro” (Golden chalk professor: acknowledge by the students as the best professor of Radiochemistry Department), InSTEC, Cuba.

January 2014 - January 2017

EDOM (école doctorale Ondes et Matières) scholarship, Université Paris-Sud XI.

January 2014 - January 2017

“Triangle de la Physique” scholarship (PhD co-funding). French National Program.

2013

Funding from the French embassy in Cuba for a sandwich PhD involving InSTEC (Cuba) and Université Paris Sud XI (France).