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Prof. Bernardo José Luis Arauz Lara is a distinguished physicist and professor who specializes in complex fluids. He was the director of the Institute of Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP) in Mexico from 2010 to 2018. He was born on August 20, 1957 in Santo Tomas Hueyotlipan, Puebla, Mexico. He obtained his Master and Doctorate degrees in Physics from CINVESTAV-IPN. He has made significant contributions to the fields of colloidal particles, magnetic fluids, light scattering and Brownian motion. He has published over 65 papers in international journals, some of which have received prestigious awards such as the Weizmann Prize and the IIM-UNAM Prize. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) level 3, the highest rank in Mexico, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1990. He has supervised 12 doctoral, 14 master’s and 5 bachelor’s thesis students. He has also participated in various academic committees and served as a referee for several scientific journals. He has been awarded scholarships and honors from institutions such as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, CONACYT and IF-UNAM1. In 2022, he was recognized as an emeritus professor by CONACYT for his outstanding academic career and contributions to science and technology in Mexico.

Biography

From 1977 – 1983, Prof. Gerhard Naegele studied Physics and Mathematics at the U of Konstanz, closing his studies with a master (diploma) degree in Physics, and a high school teacher degree in Mathematics and Physics. Subsequently, he started his PhD student work on colloidal mixtures at the Physics department in Konstanz, under the supervision of Rudolf Klein. During this period, collaborations started with Magdaleno Medina-Noyola, Jose-Luis Arauz-Lara and Honorina Ruiz-Estrada, supported by various visits of him to the CINVESTAV in Mexico City. After receiving the PhD in Physics, he spent a postdoc year at the U of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1989), working with Ziya Akcasu on the dynamics of polymer melts. In the period 1990 – 2000, he was employed at the Physics department of the U of Konstanz, first as a research fellow and subsequently as university lecturer. During this period, he got to know Jose-Miguel Mendez-Alcaraz and later Ramon Castaneda–Priego, who worked in the group of Rudolf Klein as PhD student and postdoc, respectively. Since 2001, he is staff scientist at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in a soft matter group headed by Jan Dhont until 2022, jointly with holding a Professor of Theoretical Physics position at the U of Düsseldorf. His current research work is on the structure and dynamics of ionic microgel systems, SALR protein dispersions in three and two dimensions, crossflow filtration modelling, and postsynaptic neuronal signal transduction.

Biography

Prof. Honorina Ruiz Estrada is a faculty at the Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico. She has a doctorate degree from the Cinvestav-IPN and she is part of the academic staff of the Doctorado en Educación Matemática. She is an expert in physics and mathematics education, and she has published several papers on the topic. She is also interested in colloidal physics, and she has studied the properties and behavior of colloidal matter using theoretical and computational methods. She is a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física and the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. She is a respected and influential scholar in her field, and she has been cited by 407 other researchers.

Biography

After an education as a laboratory assistant Prof. Jan Dhont started to study chemistry at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands. During his chemistry study and the subsequent PhD (1981-1985) in physical chemistry at the Van‘t Hoff Laboratory under the supervision of Agienus Vrij, he gradually shifted his interests to physics. This resulted in a Post Doc (1985-1987) at the Konstanz University, Faculty of Physics, Germany, under the guidance of Rudolf Klein. He then returned to the Van‘t Hoff Laboratory as an associate professor in the physical chemistry group headed by Henk Lekkerkerker, and moved in 2000 to the Research Center Juelich and the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf , Germany.