Curriculum Vitae:

HORACIO S. WIO - CURRICULUM VITAE:

EDUCATION

Doctor en Fisica (PhD Physics) (1977): Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
PhD Thesis: Semiconductor-Metal Transition in Samarium Monochalcogenides; Advisor: Prof. Blas Alascio

Licenciado en Fisica (MSc Physics) (1972): Instituto Balseiro, Univ.Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina;
MSc Thesis: Statistical Mechanics of Magnetic Ions Undergoing Valence Transitions; Advisor: Prof. Blas Alascio

Bachelor, Mechanics (1965): Escuela Industrial de la Nación Otto Kause; Buenos Aires, Argentina;

PROFFESIONAL POSITIONS:

2017-...., Scientific Associate, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC, Palma de Majorca, Spain.

2007-2017, Professor, Universidad de Cantabria, at Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Santander, Spain (Retired).

2004- 2007 Marie Curie Chair (European Commission Excellence Awards) at the Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.

2002-2003, Visiting Professor (Sabbatical Program, MECyD), Dept.Física, Fac.de Ciences,Univ.de les Illes Balears, Spain.

Nov.2001-Apr.2002, Visiting Professor ("Iberdrola" Program), Dept.Física, Fac.de Ciences, Univ.de les Illes Balears, Spain.

1992-1994, Head División Física Teórica, Departamento de Investigación Básica, CAB, CNEA, Argentina.

1992-2003, Head Grupo de Física Estadística, Unidad de Actividad de Física, CAB, CNEA, Argentina.

1990-2003, Professor, Instituto Balseiro, Univ. Nac. Cuyo, Argentina.

1990-2006, Senior Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.

1990-2006, Senior Researcher, Comisión Nacional de la Energía Atómica, CAB, Argentina.

Apr.1988-March 1990, Visiting Professor, Dept.Física, Fac.de Ciences,Univ.de les Illes Balears, Spain.

Oct.1987-Apr.1988, Visiting Researcher, Physik Dept., Technischen Universität München, Germany.

1980-1987, Associate Professor, Instituto Balseiro, Univ. Nac. Cuyo, Argentina.

1979-1980, Post Doctoral Fellow (CONICET), Physik Dept., Technischen Universität München, Germany.

1977-1990, Associate Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.

1977-1990, Associate Researcher, Comisión Nacional de la Energía Atómica, CAB, Argentina.

1973-1979, Assistant Professor, Instituto Balseiro, Univ. Nac. Cuyo, Argentina.

1973-1977, CONICET Doctoral Fellow , Instituto Balseiro, Univ. Nac. Cuyo, Argentina.

1969-1973, CNEA Fellowship for studying Physics at the Instituto Balseiro, Univ. Nac. Cuyo, Argentina.

DISTINCTIONS:

Marie Curie Chair - Excellence Awards, by the European Commission, 2003-2007.

Member, Board of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division, European Physical Society, 2003--2008.

Invited Speaker: 21st IUPAP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL PHYSICS, STATPHYS21, CanCún, Mexico, July 2001.

Member Editorial Board European Physical Journal B.

Member Advisory Editorial Board, Frontiers in Physics.

Member Advisory Editorial Board journal Physica A.

Award Iberdrola S.A., Spain, Iberdrola Visiting Professor Program, at Dept.Física, Univ.de les Illes Balears, Spain, Nov.2001--May 2002.

Regular Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italia, 1992--1999.

IUPAP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL PHYSICS, Member of the International Advisory Committee for: STATPHYS23 - Genova, Italy, July 2007; STATPHYS24 - Cairns, Australia, July 2010; STATPHYS25 - Seoul, Korea, July 2013; STATPHYS26 - Lyon, France, July 2016; STATPHYS27 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2019.

Also Invited as Member of the International Advisory Committee of:
- International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures: 5th., Univ.de Chile, Santiago, Chile, December 1993; 6th., Univ.Católica de Valparaiso, Chile, December 1995; 7th., Univ. Católica de Valparaiso, Chile, December 1997.
- Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena: 5th., Canela, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 28 Sept.-3 Oct.1997; 6th., Cordoba, Argentina, October 1999; 7th., Cocoyoc, Mexico, July 2001; 8th., Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, October 2003; 9th., S.C.Bariloche, Argentina, October 2005; 10th., Arica, Chile, October 2007; 11th., Buzios, Brazil, October 2009; 12th., San Luis Potosi, Mexico, October 2011; 13th., Cordoba, Argentina, October, 2013; 15th., La Serena, Chile, November 2017.
- 2nd Latin American Summer School on Instabilities and Nonlinear Dynamics, Valparaiso, Chile, December 2000.
- MEDYFINOL: 13th., Colonia, Uruguay, Dec. 2002; 14th., La Serena, Chile, Dec. 2004; 15th., Mar del Plata, Argentina, Dec. 2006; 16th., Punta del Este, Uruguay, Dec. 2008; 18th., Alagoas, Brazil, Oct. 2014; 19th., Valdivia, Chile, Dec. 2016.
- SPIE International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise: 1st., Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 2003; 2nd., Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2004.
- Internat. Confer. On Statistical Physics: SigmaPhi2008 (Kolympari, Crete, Greece, July 2008); SigmaPhi2011 (Ayia Napa, Cyprus, July 2011); SigmaPhi2013 (Rhodes, Greece, July 2014); SigmaPhi2017 (Corfu, Greece, July 2017); SigmaPhi2021 (Chania, Crete, Greece, July 2021, Postponed).

RESEARCHER ID at ISI: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3408-2008

RESEARCHER ID at ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6183-9617

PUBLICATIONS: a total of 245 --- h-index: WoS-h=33; SCOPUS-h=36; Google Scholar-h=39

RESEARCH GRANTS AND PROJECTS:

Nationals (Argentina, 15): From CONICET; SECYT; Fund.Antorchas; Fund.Balseiro; CEB; ANPCyT; U.Nac.de Cuyo.

Nationals (Spain, 2): MCINN; MINECO.

International (9): From Arg.-German-CNEA-KFK-Agreement; MEC, Spain-Arg. (Progr.Sci.Colab.with Iberoamérica); SECyT-ECOS (Arg.-France); SECyT-CAPES (Arg.-Brazil); CONICET-CSIC (Arg.-Spain); MCurie Chair-Europ.Comm.

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES:

Member of the Organizing Committee: ELAF - Latin American School of Physics, July 6-24 1987, La Plata, Argentina.

Chairman 4th Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena y 9na. Conferencia MEDYFINOL, 25-29 September 1995, S.C. Bariloche, Argentina.

Director & Chairman Workshop on Pattern Formation, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, July-Aug.1997.

Chairman, Workshop of the Consortium of the Americas on Interdisciplinary Science on Sparsely Connected Systems: Porous and Granular Materials, March 2000, S.C.de Bariloche, Argentina.

Member Organizing Committee Pan American Advanced Study Institutes: MODERN CHALLENGES IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS: PATTERNS, NOISE AND THE INTERPLAY OF NONLINEARITY AND COMPLEXITY, June 2-15 2002, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.

Director, COMPLEX SYSTEMS: NEW TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS, 25th Summer Courses, Universidad de Cantabria, Laredo, Spain, September, 2005.

Chairman, Workshop on Complex Systems: New Trends and Expectations, Santander, Spain, 5-9 June 2006.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

Professor, Univ. Cantabria, Santander, Spain, 2007--2017.

Professor, Instituto Balseiro, Univ. Nac. Cuyo, Argentina, 1990-2003.

Visiting Professor, Departament de Física, Facultat de Ciences, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1988--1989; Nov.2001--Apr.2002, and Dic.2002-Dic.2003.

Visiting Professor, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, October 1989.

Visiting Professor, Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina: Oct. 1991, May 1992, March 1993, Nov. 1995, May 2001.

Visiting Professor, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Chimie Physique, Troisieme Cycle Interuniversitaire en Thermodynamique et Mechanique Statistique de Non-Equilibre, Belgium, Sept.1998.

VISITOR AT LABORATORIES AND UNVERSITIES OF:

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, USA

POSTDOCS AND RESEARCHERS SUPERVISED:

Manuel O.Cáceres;

Damian H. Zanette;

German Mato;

Guillermo Abramson;

Pablo Alemany;

Marcelo Kuperman;

Gonzalo G. Izús;

Sergio Mangioni;

Alejandro D. Sánchez;

Miguel A. Fuentes;

Jorge Revelli;

Raishma Krishnan.

PhD THESIS SUPERVISED:

Manuel O.Cáceres (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, Nov.1986);

Lazaro D.Salem (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, July 1992);

Guillermo Abramson (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, Sept. 1995);

Pablo Alemany (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, Nov. 1995);

Marcelo Kuperman (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, Oct. 1996);

Alejandro D. Sánchez (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, April 2000);

Facundo Castro (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, April 2000, co-advisor);

Sebastián Bouzat (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, August 2001);

Miguel A. Fuentes Rebolledo (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, July 2002);

Jorge Revelli (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, Oct. 2003);

Sonia Casal (Physics, Depto.Fisica, FCEN, Univ.Nac.de Mar del Plata, Decesed);

Bernardo von Haeften (Physics, Depto.Fisica, FCEN, Univ.Nac.de Mar del Plata, 2005),

Daniel Serrano (Physics, Instituto Balseiro, U.Cuyo, 2013);

Julián I. Peña Roselló (Physics, Depto.Fisica, FCEN, Univ.Nac.de Mar del Plata, co-advisor Dr. R.R. Deza, April 2019).

MASTER and LICENCIATURA THESIS SUPERVISED (Physics and Nuclear Engineering):

Jose A.Milovich, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1978;

H.Eduardo Roman, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1978;

Enrique Challier, Nuclear Eng., Instituto Balseiro, 1982;

Alejandro O.Noel, Nuclear Eng., Instituto Balseiro, 1983;

V.Rodriguez Chariase, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1984;

Guillermo Abramson, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1990;

Carlos Schat, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1991;

Federico G.Nicolini, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1992;

German Drazer, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1994;

Ernesto Nicola, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1995;

Facundo Castro, Physics, Fac.Cs.Exac., UNBA, 1995;

Damián Strier, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1996 (co-advisor Dr.D.H. Zanette);

Fernando Castelpoggi, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1996;

Bernardo von Haeften, Physics, Fac.Cs. Exac., UNMdP, junio 1996;

Sebastián Bouzat, Physics, Universidad Nacional del Sur, 1996;

Diego Díaz, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1997 (co-advisor Dr.D.H. Zanette);

Claudio Tessone, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 1998;

Edmond Richards, Physics, Univ.Cantabria and Imperial College, 2009;

Jesús Anibal Sierra García, Physics, Univ.Cantabria, 2011;

Eduardo Varela, Physics, Univ.Cantabria, 2016.