Ricardo Muciño Physicist National Autonomous University of Mexico
I am driven by a deep desire to understand the world at a foundational level — in general, to bridge the gap between what we perceive and what our physical theories say of Nature.
My research ranges from foundations of physics to philosophy of science. It has mainly focused on assessing and extending physical theories (particularly, but not exclusively, the quantum ones) in order to explore and test their implications across various regimes — including thermodynamics, relativity, semiclassical (or quantum) gravity, and even scenarios dealing with symmetries, our perceptions and the in principle possible detections.
Although my academic training (BSc, MSc, and PhD) has been inPhysics, I have been fortunate to work in a rich interdisciplinary environment shaped by close collaboration between physicists and philosophers. This group, including Professors Elias Okon and Daniel Sudarsky, greatly expanded my conceptual and methodological toolkit across both disciplines.
I recently obtained my PhD and am currently currently serving as a Research Assistant under Principal Investigator Prof. Daniel Sudarsky, focusing on the intersection of relativity, wave function collapse and gravitation.
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Beyond research, I have been a teaching assistant every semester of my graduate studies, often delivering substantial parts of the lectures of several undergraduate courses like: Electromagnetism, General Relativity, Philosophy of Physics, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Foundations of Space and Time.
I also co-organized in 2024 the inaugural edition of a three-day congress on the history, philosophy, and teaching of physics — the first event of its kind at UNAM’s School of Sciences. Due to its public acceptance, we organized the second edition in September 2025. My work has been published in international journals and I have contributed with two chapters to one of the first Spanish-language books in Mexico introducing the philosophy of quantum mechanics.