Brief academic history

I got my first academic degree, "Licenciatura en Física", at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). This was a program of four years of course work plus one semester of Practical Training with a written report and oral public defense that competition and habit have transformed in a small Thesis.

During my last year as undergrad, I started Working with Professor Dr. Guido Tarrach head of the Nanotechnology Group at PUC in the design and construction of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) customized to our needs. This work become my "Tesis de Licenciatura" which was publicly defended on August 2001. After that I got accepted in the Post Graduate program at PUC from where I got a Master Degree after three semesters of course work combined with research plus one semester of full time research and a written thesis and oral and public defense.

Still under the guidance of Dr. Tarrach, my Thesis for the Master Degree was the result of the analysis of ferroelectric domains of thin layers of ferroelectric materials via the technique Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) using the AFM builded during my Undergraduate work.

Just after finished my Master Degree and since September 2003 I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Columbia University. My research is focused in protein mechanics through force spectroscopy using an AFM. This work is been developed under the guidance of Professor Dr. Julio Fernández at Columbia University Biological Sciences department.

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