Physics & Mathematical Models Design Consultant specializing in providing numerical algorithms for problems on novel materials design, electromechanical characterizations and effective chemical functionalizations.

Expertise

Researcher and professor with 25+ years of experience executing math-physics inspired solutions to bridge the gap between academy and industry. Involved in projects encouraged to develop models and implement numerical solutions for technological demands, present and predicted ones. Solutions offered always enclosed by European Union regulatory requirements. Upon proof of concepts designs, main areas where effective solutions are being provided are listed below. 

• Mathematical modelling for industrial processes improvement, e.g. textiles, drugs design, cosmetic.
• Numerical modelling for nature-inspired-systems functionalization, e.g. cellulose, DNA.
• Materials Science. 
• Ab-initio calculations for micro and nano-systems, e.g. semiconductors, organic molecules.
• Light-matter and phonon-electron interactions in nano-micro device designs.
• Nanofabrication and nanoimprint routes modelling.
• Electronic, thermal, and optical processes in nano-scale inspired materials, e.g. graphene, nanocellulose. 
• Novel materials design, i.e. single molecules functionalization.
• Algorithms design for numerical solutions finding, e.g. for knots evolution description.
• Nanoscience and nanotechnology projects design and management. 
• Statistical methods for data sciences.
• Methodological improvements for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods.
• Functional nanostructures design.
• Physical models design for bioinformatics.
• Project management in all such categories above mentioned.

Experience

CECON LLC, USA, Independent Technology Consultant, 2017 – Present

• propose solutions to customer needs by devising new branches intended to differentiate in already saturated markets and to anticipate future market claims.

Undisclosed Journal, Editorial Board, 2017 – Present

• review and prepare technical material.

Undisclosed Journal, Editorial Board, 2021 – Present

• review manuscripts submitted for publication.

UNIR, Professor, 2018 – Present

• Undergraduate teaching: Mathematics and Statistic for Physicists
• Postgraduate courses: Big Data Analytics and Data Visualization

UAB, Adjunct Professor, 2018 – Present

• prepare and guide practical sessions for Computer Engineers. Focus on using EXCEL and R softwares for statistical models computing. 

PUC, Adjunct Professor, 2017 – Present 

• prepare and guide sessions for Bioengineers. Focus on preparing academic materialadapted to students that need mathematical tools but are not in general familiar or comfortable in the field. Develop methodologies to introduce basics of mathematical analysis, multivariable optimizations, and algebra.  

Materials Science Research Center of Barcelona, Spain and Wallenberg Wood Science Center, Sweden, Researcher, 2018 – 2019 

• research on green materials development. Numerical and computational models development.

CADT S.L. Spain, Independent Consultant, 2018 – 2019

• assistance for transferring numerical technologies developed within academic frames to technological processes. 

Yanbal Cosmetics USA, Independent Consultant, 2016 – 2017 

• guidance on the implementation of computational models and setting infraestructures to improve technological cycles.  
• research on DNA electromechanics. Explore possibilities for new DNA mechatronics and telecommunications. 

Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Postdoctoral Researcher - Computational Physics, Barcelona, Spain, 2009 - 2015 

• set up IT policies and managed computational resources for the research group.  
• developed models and softwares for numerical evaluation and improvement of:  

Acoustic transport in semiconductors and 2D-materials. 

Nanofabrication designs to control water adhesion. 

Packing structures to control sound transmission. 

• Ph. D research supervisor: direction of two Ph.D thesis, on numerical models for Bioinformatics and  Structural Biology respectively. 
• prepared EU research proposals in the areas of phononics, photonics, electronics and materials development. In charge of technicalities concerning applicability of computational methods. 

UCVL, External Professor on Mathematical Methods for Bioinformatics, 2008 – present. 

• virtual assistance and guidance to master and Ph.D. students.

Materials Science Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Postdoctoral Researcher - Computational Modelling, Spain, 2007 - 2009 

• implemented optomechanical models for semiconductor based devices targeting photons transport. 

University of Alicante, Applied Physics Department, Ph.D Researcher – Computational Physics, Alicante, Spain, 2002 - 2007 

• developed numerical models for the characterization of single-molecule chemistry.  
• authored and co-authored articles on numerical characterization of atomic systems, phonon transport, electron-phonon interactions and computational physics. 

International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Student and Researcher on Computational Physics, Trieste, Italy, 2000 - 2002 

• developed methods for numerical characterization of biomolecules as well as their interaction with the environment. 

Superior Institute for Sciences and Nuclear Technologies (ISCTN), Assistant Professor on Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Mechanics, Havana, Cuba, 1997 - 2001 

• co-developed methods for practical sessions with students while taking advantage of laboratory facilities and latest research results among the in-house academic staff.

Honors & Publications

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Professor for International University of La Rioja in Spain 
• Technology advisor for CADS S.L. in Spain
• Researcher on Materials Science for Institutes in Spain and Sweeden 
• Editor for International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
• Editor for Journal of Bioelectricity

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

Author and Co-Author of scientific papers, peer reviewed articles, and education text with subjects in:

• ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. 
• Unveiled electric profiles within hydrogen bonds suggest DNA base pairs with similar bond strengths.
• Orthotropic Piezoelectricity in 2D Nanocellulose.
• A Hooke’s Law-based Mechanism to Model Protein Folding Rate.
• Optical and mechanical properties of nanofibrillated cellulose: towards a robust platform for next generation green technologies.
• A physics-based scoring function for protein structural decoys: Dynamic testing on targets of CASP-ROLL.
• Global Stability of Protein Folding from an Empirical Free Energy Function.
• Nonlocal correction to the electronic structure of non-ideal electron gases: the case of graphene and tyrosine amino acid.
• New Set of 2D/3D Thermodynamic Indices for Proteins. A Formalism Based on “Molten Globule Theory”.
• Probing the electron-phonon coupling in ozone-doped graphene by Raman spectroscopy.
• Influence of CO in the structural and electrical properties of Pt nanocontacts: a comparison with H2 molecules addition.
• On the role of nonlocal HF exchange in ab-initio quantum transport: H2 in Pt nanocontacts revisited.
• Effects of methods and basis set on ab-initio calculations of electronic transport through hydrogenated Pt nanocontacts.
• Ab-initio Molecular Electronics: are we reaching this limit?
• Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends.
• Conductance fluctuations in metallic nanocontacts.
• Electronic transport and vibrational modes in the smallest molecular bridge: H2 in Pt nanocontacts.

Education

Ph.D. Materials Science, University of Alicante, Community of Valencia, Spain

B.S.   Physics-Mathematics, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba