Postgraduate Opportunities

If you are interested in doing a PhD, I have several projects  related to the self-assembly of complex molecules and colloidal materials (see my research interests).  If you have any questions please send me an e-mail.

The school has funding for selected UK students, and partial funding for  non-UK EU students.  Non EU students will require their own funding .

Research collaborations

Professor Fernando A. Escobedo (Cornell University, USA)

Professor Chekesha M. Liddell Watson (Cornell University, USA)

Professor George Jackson (Imperial College London, UK)

Professor Erich A. Müller (Imperial College London, UK)

Professor Alejandro Gil-Villegas (University of Guanajuato, Mexico)

Professor Ramón Castañeda Priego (University of Guanajuato, Mexico)

Dr. Thomas Lafitte (University of Sheffield, UK)

Dr. Paola Carbone (The University of Manchester, UK)

Dr. Flor Siperstein (The University of Manchester, UK)

Professor Andrew Master (The University of Manchester, UK)

SAFTg Force Field

Liquid crystals

Nonconventional liquid crystals

Research Group(s)

• Multi-Scale Modelling
• Nanomaterials and Interfaces

Self assembly of anisotropic colloidal particles

Transport properties using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics

Modules

• Units taught

In September 2012 I was appointed Lecturer in Chemical Engineering  in the school Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at University of Manchester.

Previously,  I was a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University (2011-2012), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE), working with Prof. Fernando Escobedo in the self-assembly of anisotropic colloidal particles using computer simulation techniques.

From 2008-2011 I worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, funded by the EPSRC, with Professors  Erich A. Müller, George Jackson, Amparo Galindo, and Claire S. Adjiman, in the development of coarse-grained models for phase equilibria calculations, and studying the self-assembly of non-conventional discotic liquid crystals using computer simulations.

I graduated in Chemical Engineering from Metropolitan Autonomous University in 2003. In 2007, I obtained my PhD in Physical Chemistry from University of Guanajuato, funded by CONACyT, working with Professor Alejandro Gil-Villegas in the development  computer simulation methodologies for ionic systems.

 My research interest is in the modelling  of materials at different time and lenght scales using computer simulation techniques.