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Luis Eduardo Francisco Foa Torres

Profesor Asociado

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


quantum transport; graphene and two-dimensional materials; driven systems; light-matter interaction; Floquet theory; topological insulators

Educación

  •  Licenciatura en Física, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CORDOBA. Argentina, 1999
  •  Doctorado en Física, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CORDOBA. Argentina, 2004

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    FCFM

    Chile

    2016 - A la fecha

  •   Profesor Asociado Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CORDOBA

    Facultad de Matemáticas, Astronomía y Física

    Córdoba, Argentina

    2015 - 2016

  •   Profesor Adjunto Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CORDOBA

    Facultad de Matemáticas, Astronomía y Física

    Córdoba, Argentina

    2009 - 2015

  •   CONICET Independent Research Scientist Full Time

    CONICET

    Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola

    Córdoba, Argentina

    2015 - 2016

  •   CONICET Adjoint Research Scientist Full Time

    CONICET

    Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola

    Córdoba, Argentina

    2009 - 2014

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Full Time

    Dresden University of Technology

    Alemania

    2008 - 2009

  •   Research Associate

    Dresden University of Technology

    Alemania

    2007 - 2008

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    CEA-Grenoble

    Francia

    2005 - 2007

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow

    International Centre for Theoretical Physics

    Italia

    2004 - 2005

  •   Becario doctoral

    CONICET

    Argentina

    2000 - 2004

Formación de Capital Humano


MENTORING EXPERIENCE (2012-2020)

PhD students

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Esteban Rodríguez Mena, with a doctoral fellowship granted by ConiCyT (Chile), August 2018-present (ongoing).

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Virginia Dal Lago, with a doctoral fellowship (CONICET), April 2013-present. Expected defense date: October 2017, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Pablo Perez Piskunow, with a doctoral fellowship (CONICET), April 2012-December 2015. The thesis "On the Effects of Radiation on the Transport Properties of Graphene" was successfully defended on December 1st, 2015, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

. Director of the PhD Thesis of Lucas Ingaramo, with a doctoral fellowship (CONICET), April 2011-September 2016. The thesis "Charge transport in carbon nanostructures in the presence of defects" was successfully defended on September 15, 2016, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Postdocs

. Director (Investigador Patrocinante) of Dr. José Mella Riquelme, postdoc funded by "FondeCyT Postdoctorado" grant number 3200697, April 2020 - present (FCFM, Universidad de Chile).

. Director (Investigador Patrocinante) of Dr. José Eduardo Barrios Vargas, postdoc funded by "FondeCyT Postdoctorado" grant number 3170126, March 2017 - 2018 (FCFM, Universidad de Chile). Then he moved to UNAM (Mexico) to take on a Professor position.

. Director (Investigador Patrocinante) of Dr. Matías Berdakin, postdoc funded by "FondeCyT Postdoctorado" grant number 3170143, March 2017 - March 2019 (FCFM, Universidad de Chile). He then moved to take on a Researcher Position at CONICET (Argentina)
. Director of the postdoctoral fellowship (CONICET) of Dr. Hernan L. Calvo, November 2013- March 2014 (now Researcher at CONICET, Argentina).

. Director of the postdoctoral fellowship (CONICET, Argentina) of Dr. Victoria Bracamonte, April 2013-March 2015 (then moved to the University of Trieste).

. Director of the postdoctoral fellowship (CONICET, Argentina) of Dr. Hernan L. Calvo, April 2010-December 2010 (then moved to RWTH Aachen-Germany).

Early-stage researchers

. Director of Dr. Hernan L. Calvo, Assistant researcher at CONICET, Argentina (tenure-track), April 2014 - December 2016.

. Co-director of Dr. Victoria Bracamonte, Assistant researcher at CONICET, Argentina (tenure-track), April 2016-June 2017.

Masters' Thesis

. Director of the Magister thesis of José Luis Chesta López, 2018 – November 2019, defended in November 2019.

. Co-tutor of the Magister thesis of Juan Pablo Ramos Andrade, UCN, Chile, July 2012-April 2013, defended in April 2013.

. Director of the undergraduate thesis (Masters' level) of Pablo Perez Piskunow, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, April 2011-March 2012, defended on March 2012.

. Director of the undergraduate thesis (Masters' level) of Lucas Ingaramo, April 2010-March 2011, defended in March 2011.

TEACHING

I have taught courses in Physics, Mathematics and Materials Science to students across different disciplines in four countries (Argentina, France, Germany and Chile).
These courses include Solid State Physics, Quantum Transport, Quantum Mechanics and Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science.


Difusión y Transferencia


I have carried out different outreach activities. This includes three main axes:

(i) Talks for the general public and also at schools, these talks usually try to convey a feeling for science and the role it has and may have in society and its future. Examples of these activities: talks on topics including "quantum computing for beginners", "graphene and the golden age of new materials" within the program of open talks at the University of Chile (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) https://twitter.com/genesis1979/status/1159148143755300865; similar talks at schools within the program EXPLORA of the Chilean government and also for the Argentine Foundation for Nanotechnology (FAN);

(ii) Promoting science through articles, opinions, and interviews in the media (written and also on TV). This includes several notes for local newspapers (such as La Voz del Interior (Argentina) and La Tercera (Chile)), tv (Mega (Chile) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kFbYvrXksg), and also magazines such as "América Economía" (Chile).

(iii) Promoting science through videos. In 2011 we produced one video on graphene, available in youtube both in Spanish and English ("Grafeno: tan lejos, tan cerca", "Graphene: Faraway, so close" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a60xAjM4spo) with more than 100 thousand views for the Spanish version.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Humboldt Research Fellow

    ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION

    Alemania, 2008

    Humboldt Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), 03.2008 – 09.2009. Granted in recognition of previous scientific work.

  •   Junior Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

    INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS (ICTP-TRIESTE)

    Italia, 2011

    Appointed Junior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), 01.2011 – 12.2016.

  •   Joven Sobresaliente

    Bolsa de Comercio de Cordoba

    Argentina, 2011

    Joven Sobresaliente del año 2011, given by Córdoba’s Stock Exchange, Córdoba, Argentina, Nov 2011.

  •   ICTP Prize

    INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS (ICTP-TRIESTE)

    Italia, 2018

    This is one of the foremost prizes in Physics for the developing world. The ICTP Prize was created in 1982 by the ICTP Scientific Council to recognize outstanding and original contributions in physics by young scientists (those who have obtained their PhD less than 12 years earlier) from, and working in, developing countries. The ICTP Prize includes a sculpture, certificate and a cash award. “The Prize recognizes the independent contributions to the theoretical advancement of condensed matter physics of modern solid-state materials, including low dimensional and nanoscale systems. Theory work by Luis Foà Torres contributed importantly to our understanding of topological insulators, graphene and two-dimensional materials and nanotubes, including quantum transport and optoelectronics.” The prize ceremony is available in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjFmQYnrxA

  •   Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society

    American Physical Society

    Estados Unidos, 2018

    The Outstanding Referee program was instituted in 2008 to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. The highly selective Outstanding Referee program annually recognizes about 150 of the roughly 71,000 currently active referees. Comparable to Fellowship in the APS and other organizations, this is a lifetime award.


 

Article (50)

Floquet Engineering of a Diatomic Molecule through a Bichromatic Radiation Field
Transport of non-classical light mediated by topological domain walls in a SSH photonic lattice
Copropagating Edge States Produced by the Interaction between Electrons and Chiral Phonons in Two-Dimensional Materials
Robustness of spin-polarized edge states in a two-dimensional topological semimetal without inversion symmetry
Quadrature protection of squeezed states in a one dimensional photonic topological insulator
Spin-Polarized Tunable Photocurrents
Floquet boundary states in AB-stacked graphite
Perspective on topological states of non-Hermitian lattices
Spatio-temporal dynamics of shift current quantum pumping by femtosecond light pulse
Topological signatures in quantum transport in anomalous Floquet-Anderson insulators
Directional control of charge and valley currents in a graphene-based device
Multiterminal conductance at the surface of aWeyl semimetal
Non-Hermitian robust edge states in one-dimension=> Anomalous localization and eigenspace condensation at exceptional points
Robust edge states induced by electron-phonon interaction in graphene nanoribbons
One-way transport in laser-illuminated bilayer graphene: A Floquet isolator
Photoelectric polarization-sensitive broadband photoresponse from interface junction states in graphene
Crafting zero-bias one-way transport of charge and spin
Floquet bound states around defects and adatoms in graphene
Floquet interface states in illuminated three-dimensional topological insulators
Floquet topological transitions in a driven one-dimensional topological insulator
Hierarchy of Floquet gaps and edge states for driven honeycomb lattices
Line defects and quantum Hall plateaus in graphene
On the Nature of Defects in Liquid-Phase Exfoliated Graphene
Non-perturbative effects of laser illumination on the electrical properties of graphene nanoribbons
Quantum charge pumping in graphene-based devices: When lattice defects do help
Laser-induced effects on the electronic features of graphene nanoribbons
Radiation effects on the electronic properties of bilayer graphene
Enhancing single-parameter quantum charge pumping in carbon-based devices
Tuning laser-induced band gaps in graphene
ac transport in graphene-based Fabry-Pérot devices
Modeling graphene-based nanoelectromechanical devices
AC transport in carbon-based devices: challenges and perspectives
Controlling the conductance and noise of driven carbon-based Fabry–Pérot devices
Charge transport in carbon nanotubes: quantum effects of electron–phonon coupling
Conduction regime in innovative carbon nanotube via interconnect architectures
Diameter dependent phonon-induced backscattering in semiconducting carbon nanotubes
Effects of electron-phonon interaction on transport through carbon nanotubes: lifting of degeneracies in Fock-space
Electron–phonon induced conductance gaps in carbon nanotubes
Towards a time reversal mirror for quantum systems
Antiresonances as precursors of decoherence
Inelastic Quantum Transport and Peierls-Like Mechanism in Carbon Nanotubes
Mono-parametric quantum charge pumping: Interplay between spatial interference and photon-assisted tunneling
Conductance fluctuations in Coulomb-blockaded dots: from the sequential theory to a quantum coherent description
Coherent versus Sequential Electron Tunneling in Quantum Dots
An ultrasound emitter based on assisted tunneling
Electron-phonon interaction in electronic tunneling: from sequential rate equations to a coherent description
Electron–phonon interaction and electronic decoherence in molecular conductors
GaAs−AlxGa1−xAs double-barrier heterostructure phonon laser: A full quantum treatment
Tuning a resonance in Fock space: Optimization of phonon emission in a resonant-tunneling device
Resonances in Fock space: optimization of a SASER device

BookWhole (1)

Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials

Proyecto (7)

AISLANTES TOPOLÓGICOS DE FLOQUET EN TRES DIMENSIONES
Harnessing stacking order in layered Van der Waal heterostructures
Novel manifestations of topological states in condensed matter
PROPIEDADES ELÉCTRICAS Y DE ABSORCIÓN ÓPTICA EN DISPOSITIVOS BASADOS EN GRAFENO
Efectos de la radiación en el transporte de carga a través de nanodispositivos basados en grafeno
Simulaciones computacionales, Síntesis y Caracterización de nanodispositivos/nanomateriales basados en Grafeno
Propiedades de Transporte de Materiales Nanoestructurados
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Luis Foa Torres

Profesor Asociado

DFI

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Eric Suárez

Académico

Fisica

UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Alvaro Núñez

profesor asociado

física

DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA, FCFM, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILEQ

Santiago, Chile

1
Carla Hermann

Assistant professor

Departamento de física

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile