Aurora Hernandez-Machado

Full professor at UB
Research area: Mathematical Modelling

PhD in Physics obtained at UB

Biosketch

Full Professor University of Barcelona
Faculty of Physics
Associate Professor University of Barcelona, 1987-2011
Research Consultant University of Pittsburgh, 1988, 1990
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 1987
Postdoctoral Fellow, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, 1985-86

International Awards

Award for outstanding doctoral thesis research in biogical physics 2009. F. Campelo.
International competion, American Physical Society(U.S.A.). Advisor: A. Hernandez-Machado

Special Honors

Invited Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Meeting of Statistical Physics (2002-2006)

Invited Member of Specialized Group of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of Spanish Royal Society
(2002-2012)

Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia de Ciencias de Mexico desde 2019.

Cientifica de Excelencia del Extranjero de Chile desde 2018

Research lines

  • Biophysics (Biological Membranes, Blood Flow)
  • Microfluidics ( Pinning, Avalanches, Rare Events)
  • Dynamic Wetting ( Drop Emission, Superconfinement)
  • Nanopatterning and Roughening
  • Red Blood Cell Mechanics

Selected publications