
Aurora Hernandez-Machado
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