Name : Marisol Alcántara Ortigoza

Speciality : Electro- and heterogeneous catalysis: Materials rational design,Chemical and thermodynamic stability of surfaces and nanoparticles,Magnetic properties of nanoparticles and their dipolar interactions,Homo- and heteroepitaxy,Topological Insulators

Email : malcantaraortigoza@tuskegee.ed

Affilation : Assistant Professor

Professor M. Alcántara Ortigoza received her Ph.D in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter from Kansas State University. She has been a Research Associate, PhD co-advisor, and StudioMode Physics Instructor at University of Central Florida, as well as a Visiting Scientist at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (Germany) and the Donostia International Physics Center (Spain). She works on theoretical and computational physics and chemistry of surfaces and nanomaterials. One of her current focus areas is that of establishing and solving the multifactor problem that presents itself when designing synergistic complex and/or nanostructured materials, with applications in clean, inexpensive, and sustainable energy conversion. She is also working on new and simple avenues for mapping the shape, ordering and thermal properties of nanoparticles to their markedly discrete vibrational density of states.