Felipe J. Blas

Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Simulation and Computational Chemistry at the CIQSO-Center of Research in Sustainable Chemistry, University of Huelva (UHU), Spain.

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Felipe J. Blas was born in Cáceres (Spain) in 1969. He received a B. Sc. (Licenciatura) in Physics from Universidad de Sevilla in 1992. After a period teaching Physics in Secondary School (1992-1995), he moved to Tarragona (North East Spain). He received a Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Lourdes F. Vega. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate, he jointed Prof. George Jackson’s group at Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (UK). He started an appointment as Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Huelva (Spain), where he has been promoted several times until the current position of Professor in Applied Physics (since 2017).

Prof. Blas’ work is devoted to the application, development and extension of molecular modeling techniques to understand phase equilibria and interfacial properties of water, hydrates, chain-like molecules, amphiphilic substances, polymers, and liquid crystals, among others. The common methodology of his research uses theories based on perturbation theories, including the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (SAFT), Density Functional Theory (DFT), and molecular simulation (Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics methods). During last years, their research interests moved towards the understanding of clathrate hydrates of methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen, with particular emphasis on the study of nucleation and interfacial free energies from computer simulation.