• Department of nanostructures, surfaces, and coating
• Madrid Institute of Materials Science (ICMM)
• Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Dr. Albella is senior scientist at the Surface Physics and Engineering Dept., (Institute of Materials Science, CSIC). He has been Professor at the Applied Physics Dept. (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) teaching several graduate and doctorate courses on semiconductors, electronic materials and thin films. Presently, he conducts a research group devoted to the study of ceramic coatings for surface treatments for tribological applications (mechanical parts, tools, etc.), using PVD and CVD techniques (sputtering, plasmas, ion beams, etc.). He has also been working on the development of thin-film materials for microelectronics and optics, having published over one hundred papers in specialized journals and two books on these topics. Currently, he is involved in the deposition of materials, such as oxides, nitrides, carbides, diamond, etc. He has conducted different research projects with Spanish industries and research agencies as well within the EC research programs (Brite-Euram and ECSC) and has been invited to participate in the organizing committee of several international conferences and has given lectures in different university departments and international congresses. Dr. Albella has been awarded for his research activities by some Spanish institutions.

In 1989, Jose Manuel De Cozar obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia. He is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of La Laguna since 1995. Their research is within the scope of social studies of science and technology. In 2002 he published the book Technology, civilization and barbarism (Barcelona , Anthropos ). He was co-editor , with Javier Gomez Ferri, the monograph Nanobiotechnology and Society in the Latin American Journal of Science, Technology and Society , June 2012 , vol.7, no.20 . In 2008 he was co-director of the Seminary of the International University Menéndez Pelayo Nanoconexiones on the border of the invisible. Relationships between science, art and society through nanotechnology , held in Valencia ( Spain ) from 10 to 14 November.

• Director, Mexico Study Center, University of California Education Abroad Program.
• Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara.
• Research Professor, Level 3, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City.

Casey Walsh received a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in 2001. He was a research professor in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City, from 2001 to 2008. Since 2008 he has worked in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is an Associate Professor. Much of his research has dealt with water, land and labor in arid areas, in particular Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States. His book, Building the Borderlands (Texas A&M, 2008), is a socioeconomic and cultural history of irrigated cotton agriculture in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Recent articles on water use, management and conflict have been published in Human Organization, Journal of Political Ecology, and Southern Rural Sociology. He is currently engaged in a comparative study of bathing practices, infrastructure, and the social use of hot springs in California and Mexico.

Curriculum Summary • He graduated in Physics from the University of Havana in 1971.
• Master of Laser Physics, Polytechnic Institute CUJAE, 1978.
• Ph.D. in Quantum Electronics, IOFFE Physical Technical Institute, Leningrad, 1983.

General Focus:

- Photochemistry and luminescence phenomena in criminalistic Institute of Havana, in the 80s.
- Developed-medical equipment for low power laser therapy in the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, in the 90s.
- He stays Conducted post-doc at the Technical University of Munich in 1986, the IOFFE Leningrad in 1989 and Paris XI in 2000.
- Added scientist at the Cuban Embassy in Paris from 2001 to 2005.
- Program Coordinator of the Office of the Scientific Advisory Council of State, working in the national strategy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, since 2006.

Ph.D. in Plant Ecology. University of California, Davis, USA; Master: Water Use and Conservation. ITESM, Monterrey, N. L; Agronomist: UAAAN, Saltillo, Coahuila. Teacher-Researcher "C" of the Centre for Research in Applied Chemistry (CIQA); SNI Researcher level 1; Research interests in Sustainable Agriculture and Protected; Agroplasticulture; biofertilizers; biopesticides; Agronantechnology. Five books published as an author and editor; 20 chapters in books and 33 scientific papers in indexed journals. Eight patents registered IMPI.

Licenciado en Física y Matemáticas, “Estudio de la retención de carga eléctrica en SiO2 no estequiometrico como una aplicación para memorias no volátiles”. (Física del Estado Sólido). Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas , México, 1985.BS in Physics and Mathematics, "Study on the electric charge storage in off-stoiquiometric SiO2 and its application in non-volataile memories". National Polytechnic Institute. Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas , México, 1985.Maestría en Física, “Mecanismos de inyección y retención de carga en SiO2 no-estequiometrico”. (Física del Estado Sólido). Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN. Departamento de Física, México 1988. MS in Physics, "Mechanisms of charge injection and storage in off-stoiquiometric SiO2" Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN. Physics Department, México 1988. Doctorado.- “Investigation on the initial growth process and interface formation of Si-GaAs heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy”. Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, 1992.

Education:

PhD in Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, CINVESTAV Zacatenco, 2009.
Master of Science in Soil Science, Institute of Natural Resources, Graduate College, 2005.
Agronomist Scientist, Department of Soil, Chapingo Autonomous University, 2003.

Professional Experience:

Research Professor 3A, Group Sustainability of Natural Resources and Energy. Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN, CINVESTAV (2010 -)
Teacher-Researcher C, Energy Engineering. Electromechanical Industrial Area. Technological University of Tulancingo. (2009-2010)

Profesora-Investigadora Titular “C”
Nivel 3 – Sistema Nacional de Investigadores

Grados Obtenidos:
Preparatoria Universidad de Guanajuato: Técnica Laboratorista 1979
Licenciatura UAMI: Química con orientación a Fisicoquímica 1983
Maestría UAMI: Ciencias (especialidad: Estado Sólido) 1986
Doctorado UAMI: Ciencias (especialidad: Ciencia de Materiales - Nanotecnología) 1989

Investigadora en los siguientes campos:

• Nanomedicina Catalítica una nueva nanoterapia para tumores de alto grado de malignidad.
• Proceso “sol-gel”.
• Materiales nanoestructurados para su uso en tratamiento de CANCER
• Reservorios nanoestructurados para liberación controlada de drogas neurológicas biocompatibles con tejido cerebral: EPILEPSIA y PARKINSON
• Nanoreservorios de liberación controlada de fármacos para piel, hígado, pulmón, etc.
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Director del Centro de Ciencias aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Investigador Titular en la UNAM, SNI II, 55 artículos publicados en revistas internacionales indizadas, 3 capítulos en libro y más de 150 presentaciones en congresos nacionales e internacionales. Ha dirigido de más de 30 tesis de todos los niveles, tutor de 4 estancias posdoctorales. En 2013 la Universidad Nacional le otorgó la Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos en el área de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas.

El Dr. Sergio Fuentes Moyadoobtuvo el grado de Ingeniero Químico Petrolero de la Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Química e Industrias Extractivas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional en el D.F. en 1972. Obtuvo el grado de Doctor en Cinética Química y Catálisis de la Universidad Claude Bernard de Lyon, Francia, en 1977 y el de Doctor de Estado en Ciencias Físicas de la misma universidad, en 1978. En 2011 se le confirió el Doctorado Honoris Causa de la Universidad Veracruzana. Ha trabajado en el Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo y en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa. En 1985 comienza a trabajar en la UNAM, primero en el Instituto de Física, trasladándose en 1990 a su Laboratorio de Ensenada, que en 1998 cambió de denominación a Centro de Ciencias de la Materia Condensada (CCMC) y posteriormente en 2008 a Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (CNyN), del cual es director desde 2006. El Dr. Fuentes ha promovido la creación de un Polo de Investigación en Nanociencias y Nanotecnología en el campus de la UNAM en Ensenada, que incluye la licenciatura en Nanotecnología que inició sus labores en 2011, así como nuevos laboratorios de Bionanotecnología, Nanocaracterizacion y Nanofabricación.