- Rosalva Loreto López, Gregorio Hernández Cocoletzi, Umapada Pal and Geolar Fetter join the list
This year the list of distinguished BUAP academics as a national emeritus researcher, with the appointments of the doctors: Gregorio Hernández Cocoletzi and Umapada Pal, of the Institute of Physics “Luis Rivera Terrazas” (IFUAP); Geolar Fetter, of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences; and Rosalva Loreto López, from the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” (ICSYH).
BUAP academics, recently appointed as National Emeritus Researcher – the highest distinction granted by the National System of Researchers and Researchers (SNII) ─, have relevant relevant to the development of Mexican science in areas such as Physics, Nanotechnology, Chemistry and History. From their different lines of research they offer results that exalt the university that shelters them.
Thus, the BUAP adds 20 national emeritus researchers, which supports the quality in the training of degree and postgraduate students, in addition to the commitment that the institution maintains with the generation of scientific, technological and cultural knowledge. With the newly incorporated with the highest distinction of the SNII, the institution records an exponential growth of 150 percent of 2022 to date.
Rosalva Loreto López, Second National Researcher Emerita De la BUAP
For her outstanding academic career, Dr. Rosalva Loreto López, attached to the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” (ICSYH), received the distinction of National Researcher Emerita, becoming the second woman in the BUAP to receive this recognition, after Dr. María de la Paz Elizalde.
Doctor in History from the College of Mexico, today the head of the Directorate of University Historical Heritage of the BUAP, has published a dozen books on the study and analysis of the city of Puebla, convent life during the 18th century, urban history and its historical cartography in the XVI-XIX centuries, and the built heritage of this city, among other issues. More than 10 works and scientific collections linked to Novohispana History Studies, in addition to publishing in national and international academic magazines, has participated in various co -editions and coordinated.
Among the distinctions he has obtained are the award for the best article of the colonial period, awarded by the Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences in 2000, for “Reading, Counting and Writing. An approach to the practices of convent reading. Puebla de los Ángeles, Mexico, XVII and XVIII centuries”; and honorary mention of the Elinor Melville Prize for the Best Book on Latina American Environmental History 2008, for the book A eye view to a novohispana city. La Puebla de los Ángeles of the 18th century.
He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2000; also president of the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History AC, and the Defender of the Cultural and Environmental Historical Heritage of Puebla AC
He has coordinated various projects financed by the CONACYT ─Ned Secretariat of Sciences, Humanities, Technology and Innovation – such as “Inhabit and live in the Puebla de los Ángeles of the 18th century”; “Comparative environmental history of two Mexican cities. Puebla and Mexico in the 18th century”; and “Modernization and preservation: Catalog of laws and decrees, 1800-1867 and plans of the Municipal Historical Archive of Puebla, 18th to the 19th centuries.” It is part of the academic body, in consolidation, society, city and territory in Puebla (XVI-XXI centuries).
Gregorio Hernández Cocoletzi, predictive studies of new materials
Attached to the “Luis Rivera Terrazas” Physics Institute (IFUAP), Dr. Gregorio Hernández Cocoletzi, Emeritus National Researcher, focuses his work on predictive studies of new materials with nanometric dimensions and computational modeling to explain experimental results of material surfaces.
In 1982 he graduated from the Master in Science at UNAM; Two years later he made a postgraduate degree at the University of California in Irvine, United States. In 1991 he concluded his doctorate at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, and performed a postdoctorate at the University of Ohio, in the Department of Physics.
The Mexican Society of Surface and Vacuum Sciences – now known as the Mexican Society of Science and Technology of Surfaces and Materials – gave it recognition for the best doctoral thesis in 1991. It has more than 150 participations in national and international congresses, and more than 200 articles published in indisged magazines as Surface Science Reports, Physical Review B, Journal of Energy Storage y Physical Review Letters.
He entered the SNII in 1987 and since then climbed from levels to the highest. Among his research is the analysis of the structural and electronic properties of the encapsulation of organic molecules in nanotubes of nitruro of boron, which could be used as a means of transport so that an encapsulated medical compound reaches the indicated organ, increasing its effectiveness and reducing negative effects. Recently he performed the epitaxial growth of semiconductors using the epitaxia of molecular beams.
With more than 45 years of teaching work, he was also interested in dissemination thanks to the collaboration he established with Dr. Noboru Takeuchi of the Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Center of UNAM, with whom he published a series of books written in Mexican languages to explain to children what nanotechnology is, thus coordinating the translation into Nahuatl, their mother tongue.
Umapada Pal, pioneer in nanoscience
With more than 30 years of experience in the design, synthesis, characterization and application of nanomaterials, Dr. Umapada Pal is recognized as one of the pioneers of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Mexico. Since 1995 he is part of the IFUAP, where he has developed an outstanding career as a research professor, promoting the creation of scientific infrastructure and forming high -level human resources.
Originally from Midnapore, in the state of Western Bengal (West Bengal), India, he conducted two degrees in Physics and Education, in addition to the Master in Sciences, at the University of Calcutta. He obtained the degree of Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Indian Institute of Technology (Iit-Kharagpur).
During his postdoctoral training he worked at the Complutense University of Madrid, in Spain, and at AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), in Japan. In addition, he conducted research stays in South Korea (University of Sogang, such as Brain Pool Fellow of the Kofst), India (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Iit Roorky) and the United States (University of California, Santa Cruz).
In 1997 he founded the Nanostructure Laboratory of the IFUAP, the first space of the BUAP (and one of the first in Mexico) dedicated exclusively to research in Nanoscience. Since then it has led projects focused on the synthesis and application of functional nanoparticles and nanocomposits in areas such as biomedicine, with the development of biosensors, biomarkers for diagnosis of cancer and therapies based on photothermia and photodynamics; in energy and environment, for the development of nanocatalysts for diesel engines, nanostructures for supercapacitors, materials for biogas and biodiesel generation; and in climate change, by capturing and storing CO2 through advanced nanocomposits.
He is the author of more than 320 scientific articles in high -impact international magazines, of five patents in environmental technology; It has been summoned more than 15,500 times, with an H 67 index. His scientific leadership earned him to be considered the number one researcher in Mexico in Materials Science, according to Research.com, and appears among 2 percent of the most influential scientists in the world, according to Stanford University.
State Prize for Science and Technology of Puebla in 2003, its training work is key in the development of new generations of researchers, as it has directed 12 postdoctoral stays, 15 doctoral theses, 21 of mastery and 21 degree.
Currently, he leads the research group “functional nanomaterials and optolectronic devices” (NFYDO) of the IFUAP. Beyond his scientific work, Dr. Pal maintains a firm ethical and social commitment, promoting an inclusive, collaborative and positive impact science on society.
Geolar Fetter, the synthesis of porous nanomaterials
Master and Doctor of Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Montpellier, France, has been a guest professor-investigator at the Metropolitan Autonomous University and at the National Polytechnic Institute. The BUAP entered in 1999, attached to the Faculty of Chemical Sciences.
Their teaching activities focus on the delivery of theoretical and practical classes in degree, mastery and doctorate in the area of chemistry, but also imparts and organizes courses and extracurricular workshops for teachers and students.
Its research line focuses on the synthesis of porous nanomaterials of clays, zeolites, apatites and composite materials, with applications in catalysis, adsorption, agriculture as sustainable fertilizers, and in medicine as anti -cancer and biocidal agents.
He has directed more than 20 doctoral and mastery thesis, and more than 30 bachelor’s degree. It has been responsible or member of institutional, national and international projects with institutions from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Ethiopia and France. It also participates in the review of articles for national and international magazines of prestigious publishers.
It has 78 articles published in international magazines and 12 in national magazines, as well as nine dissemination. It has patent records and several requests in process. He has participated in more than 110 international and national congresses. In addition to having more than 1,800 appointments (Researchgate) and an Author H-Index of 25.
It should be remembered that the first national emeritus researcher who had the BUAP was Dr. Alfred Zehe, today retiree, a pioneer of Nanotechnology in Mexico. After his arrival at the institution, in 1976, he founded the area of experimental physics and the Solid State Physics Laboratory. The second researcher with this distinction was Dr. Raúl Dorra, founder and coordinator of the Semiotics and Studies of Significance. The late novelist, translator and student of the word focused his research on the phonic-phonological processes, on the semantic transformations, syntactic phenomena of the verse and the spatial distribution of the spells on the page.
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