Marion E. G. Brunck received her PhD in Immunology and Systems Biology from the University of Queensland (Australia) in 2015, and her post-doctoral training from the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia (2016). She joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as faculty in 2018, and is currently an investigator at the Biotechnology Center-FEMSA. 

Marion Brunck's research focuses on mechanisms that regulate immune cell functions. Her laboratory (www.bruncklab.com), currently hosts 4 MSc. students, 2 Ph.D students, and counts with the suite of necessary equipment to undertake successfully immunology and synthetic biology research (BD FACSCelesta flow cytometer, culture biosafety hoods, incubators, microbiology and molecular equipment). As a team, the lab is interested in understanding endogenous and exogenous triggers that modify the phenotype of immune cell and their progenitors, to provide insights into possible applications of immunomodulation for therapeutic purposes. 

Marion received a competitive research scholarship from Stem Cells Australia to complete her doctoral studies, where she applied OMICS methodologies including Next-Generation DNA and RNA sequencing and mass spectrometry to study human neutrophils. Marion has extensive experience (>15 years) and expertise in the use of flow cytometry for immunology, obtained during her Honours thesis research in the lab of Prof. Ian Frazer (inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine), and during her PhD and post-doctoral studies, as evidenced by multiple high impact research article publications (Marion authored 18 highly cited peer-reviewed research articles, h-index: 11). 

Marion is an active member of the Mexican Society of Immunology, the Mexican Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering and the American Association of Blood Banks. Through these associations, TEC's School of Engineering postgraduate society (Rho Factor) and the academic group SACBE STEM, which supports and promotes the involvement of women in science, Marion regularly participates in mentoring activities and public interventions to democratize access to cutting-edge knowledge and contribute to shaping a healthier and better-informed future generation.

• Applied Immunology for the Health Industry
• Doctoral Defense
• Doctoral Research
• Guided Research
• Molecular Biology
• Research Proposal
• Research and Innovation Methods
• Science Communication

PhD in Immunology and Systems Biology, The University of Queensland

Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland

• Partial recovery of mrjp1 protein expressed in pichia pastoris using chromatographic technique. Recuperación parcial de la proteína mrjp1 expresada en pichia pastoris utilizando técnicas cromatográficas.  Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica.  20:147-160. 2021 
• The role of B cells in heart failure and implications for future immunomodulatory treatment strategies.  ESC heart failure.  7:1387-1399. 2020
• Immobilization of Growth Factors for Cell Therapy Manufacturing.Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.  8. 2020 
• Ex vivo manufactured neutrophils for treatment of neutropenia-A process economic evaluation.  Frontiers in Medicine.  6. 2019 
• Universal Alternative Splicing of Noncoding Exons.  Cell Systems.  6:245-255.e5. 2018

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COURSERA Understanding Research Methods, conferred by University of London, 2021

COURSERA Influencing People, conferred by University of Michigan, 2021

COURSERA Leading Teams completion, conferred by University of Michigan, 2021

COURSERA Inspiring and motivating individuals, conferred by University of Michigan, 2021

Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 1 (Brunck,Marion Emilie Genevieve)

Mariana Morales de la Peña has a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the University of Lleida, in Spain. As part of Tecnológico de Monterrey, she is currently the regional coordinator of the Biotechnology graduate program. In addition, she is a full-time research professor at the institution, creating collaborations and managing several food research and development projects with various companies such as Alpura, with whom she completed a research project within the Alpura Chair.

During her postdoc at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, she collaborated on a project that sought the development of functional foods and nutraceutical products through the application of emerging technologies.

Professor Mariana Morales has extensive experience in the area of ​​product development. Among her work, stands out the collaboration with companies such as Mead Johnson Nutritions®, in Mexico City, in the elaboration of products for the nutrition of babies and children like developing new milk formulas for infants. In previous years, she collaborated in the design of a tuna production plant and in the development of derived products such as juice, jam, and minimally processed tunas for the company Integral Solutions for the Food Industry S.A.C.V. in Puebla, Mexico.

She has co-written articles for renowned scientific journals such as Food Engineering Reviews, Journal of Food and Bioprocess Technology, and Journal of Food Control, among others.

In addition, she has participated in important scientific conferences such as the 33rd EFFoST International Conference, Sustainable Food Systems - Performing by Connecting, which took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, organized by the European Federation of Food Science and Technology.

• Food science
• Fundamentals of food processing
• Development of food and bioproducts
• Food plant design
• Food safety
• Healthy food design
• Emerging process engineering
• Research methods and innovation

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Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology, University of Lleida, Spain

Master's Degree in Research in Agrifood Production Systems, University of Lleida, Spain

Bachelor in Food Engineering, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLA-P), Puebla, Mexico

• Maldonado Rosas, Rubén & Tejada-Ortigoza, Viridiana & Cuan-Urquizo, Enrique & Mendoza-Cachú, David & Morales-de la Peña, Mariana & Alvarado Orozco, Juan & Campanella, Osvaldo. (2022). Evaluation of rheology and printability of 3D printing nutritious food with complex formulations. Additive Manufacturing. 58. 103030. 10.1016/j.addma.2022.103030.
• Rios-Corripio, Gabriela & Morales-de la Peña, Mariana & Welti-Chanes, Jorge & Guerrero-Beltrán, Joséángel. (2022). Pulsed electric field processing of a pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) fermented beverage. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies. 79. 103045. 10.1016/j.ifset.2022.103045.
• Morales-de la Peña, M., Rábago-Panduro, M., Soliva-Fortuny, R., Martín-Belloso, O. and Welti-Chanes, J. (2021). Pulsed electric fields technology for healthy food products. Food Engineering Reviews, 1 – 15.
• Rábago-Panduro, M., Martín-Belloso, O. and Welti-Chanes, J. and Morales-de la Peña, M. (2020). Changes in Bioactive compounds content and antioxidant capacity of pecan nuts (Cayra illinoinensis (Wangenh. K. Koch)) during storage. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química, 19 (3), 1439 - 1452

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Member of the Circle of Distinguished Professors awarded by the Tecnológico de Monterrey

Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), Level I, granted by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico
 

Mariana Morales de la Peña has a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the University of Lleida, in Spain. As part of Tecnológico de Monterrey, she is currently the regional coordinator of the Biotechnology graduate program. In addition, she is a full-time research professor at the institution, creating collaborations and managing several food research and development projects with various companies such as Alpura, with whom she completed a research project within the Alpura Chair.

During her postdoc at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, she collaborated on a project that sought the development of functional foods and nutraceutical products through the application of emerging technologies.

Professor Mariana Morales has extensive experience in the area of ​​product development. Among her work, stands out the collaboration with companies such as Mead Johnson Nutritions®, in Mexico City, in the elaboration of products for the nutrition of babies and children like developing new milk formulas for infants. In previous years, she collaborated in the design of a tuna production plant and in the development of derived products such as juice, jam, and minimally processed tunas for the company Integral Solutions for the Food Industry S.A.C.V. in Puebla, Mexico.

She has co-written articles for renowned scientific journals such as Food Engineering Reviews, Journal of Food and Bioprocess Technology, and Journal of Food Control, among others.

In addition, she has participated in important scientific conferences such as the 33rd EFFoST International Conference, Sustainable Food Systems - Performing by Connecting, which took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, organized by the European Federation of Food Science and Technology.

• Food science
• Fundamentals of food processing
• Development of food and bioproducts
• Food plant design
• Food safety
• Healthy food design
• Emerging process engineering
• Research methods and innovation

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Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology, University of Lleida, Spain

Master's Degree in Research in Agrifood Production Systems, University of Lleida, Spain

Bachelor in Food Engineering, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLA-P), Puebla, Mexico

• Maldonado Rosas, Rubén & Tejada-Ortigoza, Viridiana & Cuan-Urquizo, Enrique & Mendoza-Cachú, David & Morales-de la Peña, Mariana & Alvarado Orozco, Juan & Campanella, Osvaldo. (2022). Evaluation of rheology and printability of 3D printing nutritious food with complex formulations. Additive Manufacturing. 58. 103030. 10.1016/j.addma.2022.103030.
• Rios-Corripio, Gabriela & Morales-de la Peña, Mariana & Welti-Chanes, Jorge & Guerrero-Beltrán, Joséángel. (2022). Pulsed electric field processing of a pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) fermented beverage. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies. 79. 103045. 10.1016/j.ifset.2022.103045.
• Morales-de la Peña, M., Rábago-Panduro, M., Soliva-Fortuny, R., Martín-Belloso, O. and Welti-Chanes, J. (2021). Pulsed electric fields technology for healthy food products. Food Engineering Reviews, 1 – 15.
• Rábago-Panduro, M., Martín-Belloso, O. and Welti-Chanes, J. and Morales-de la Peña, M. (2020). Changes in Bioactive compounds content and antioxidant capacity of pecan nuts (Cayra illinoinensis (Wangenh. K. Koch)) during storage. Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química, 19 (3), 1439 - 1452

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Member of the Circle of Distinguished Professors awarded by the Tecnológico de Monterrey

Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), Level I, granted by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico
 

Dr. Marc Madou is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he has worked for over 20 years teaching subjects such as mechanical and aerospace engineering and biomedical engineering. He was an Endowed Chair Professor in the Center for Materials Research (CMR) at The Ohio State University, director of the NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM), and Miller Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in the United States. Internationally, he has been a professor at universities including UNIST in South Korea and at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Kharagpur, among others.

He is a world-renowned researcher specializing in micro- and nanofabrication processes and the application of miniaturization science and technology (micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems) to chemical and biological problems (Bio-MEMS). He is considered a pioneer in two research areas: Carbon micro- and nanofabrication (C-MEMS and C-NEMS) and compact disc fluidics (CD fluidics) for molecular diagnostics. These two technologies have resulted in at least seven start-up companies, four of which are still active. Of those founded by Marc Madou, the largest and most prominent is Enevate, a lithium-ion battery company in Irvine, California, where he is also scientific advisor. He is also the scientific founder and chairman of the board of Cence, a company that develops sensors for sweat biomarkers. His experience also includes being Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States and member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias).

Dr. Marc Madou joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Nanoengineering for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Semiconductor Electrochemistry (Physical Chemistry-Solid State Physics), Solid-State Physics Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit
• M.Sc., Physical Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit
• B.Sc., Physical Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit    

• Systems and methods for producing carbon nanostructures and ultrathin aligned carbon wires with multilayer turbostratic graphene structure
  M Madou, J Deng, A Hwu, YAN Xingxu
  US Patent 11,846,042
• A roadmap to high-speed polymerase chain reaction (PCR): COVID-19 as a technology accelerator
  M Madadelahi, R Agarwal, SO Martinez-Chapa, MJ Madou
  Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 115830
• Theoretical analysis of immunochromatographic assay and consideration of its operating parameters for efficient designing of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) detection
  R Agarwal, SO Martinez-Chapa, MJ Madou
  Scientific Reports 13 (1), 18296
• Rational PCR Reactor Design in Microfluidics
  M Madadelahi, MJ Madou
  Micromachines 14 (8), 1533
• Noble nanometals embedded carbon composites, a bottom-up fabrication process and different applications
  SOM Chapa, G Chauhan, MJ Madou, BC Benítez, MJ Moreno
  US Patent 11,603,314

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Dr. Marc Madou is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he has worked for over 20 years teaching subjects such as mechanical and aerospace engineering and biomedical engineering. He was an Endowed Chair Professor in the Center for Materials Research (CMR) at The Ohio State University, director of the NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM), and Miller Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in the United States. Internationally, he has been a professor at universities including UNIST in South Korea and at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Kharagpur, among others.

He is a world-renowned researcher specializing in micro- and nanofabrication processes and the application of miniaturization science and technology (micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems) to chemical and biological problems (Bio-MEMS). He is considered a pioneer in two research areas: Carbon micro- and nanofabrication (C-MEMS and C-NEMS) and compact disc fluidics (CD fluidics) for molecular diagnostics. These two technologies have resulted in at least seven start-up companies, four of which are still active. Of those founded by Marc Madou, the largest and most prominent is Enevate, a lithium-ion battery company in Irvine, California, where he is also scientific advisor. He is also the scientific founder and chairman of the board of Cence, a company that develops sensors for sweat biomarkers. His experience also includes being Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States and member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias).

Dr. Marc Madou joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Nanoengineering for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Semiconductor Electrochemistry (Physical Chemistry-Solid State Physics), Solid-State Physics Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit
• M.Sc., Physical Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit
• B.Sc., Physical Chemistry, Rijksuniversiteit    

• Systems and methods for producing carbon nanostructures and ultrathin aligned carbon wires with multilayer turbostratic graphene structure
  M Madou, J Deng, A Hwu, YAN Xingxu
  US Patent 11,846,042
• A roadmap to high-speed polymerase chain reaction (PCR): COVID-19 as a technology accelerator
  M Madadelahi, R Agarwal, SO Martinez-Chapa, MJ Madou
  Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 115830
• Theoretical analysis of immunochromatographic assay and consideration of its operating parameters for efficient designing of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) detection
  R Agarwal, SO Martinez-Chapa, MJ Madou
  Scientific Reports 13 (1), 18296
• Rational PCR Reactor Design in Microfluidics
  M Madadelahi, MJ Madou
  Micromachines 14 (8), 1533
• Noble nanometals embedded carbon composites, a bottom-up fabrication process and different applications
  SOM Chapa, G Chauhan, MJ Madou, BC Benítez, MJ Moreno
  US Patent 11,603,314

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Dr. Manish Kumar serves as a full-time Distinguished Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, he directed the Sustainability Cluster within the School of Advanced Engineering at UPES in Dehradun, India, and held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Tezpur University in Assam. He is a fellow of prominent organizations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI), and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). His research is on elucidating, expanding, and developing multiple aspects of the fate, transport, and remediation of geogenic, microbial, and emerging contaminants in water.

He has authored more than 250 SCI/SCIE articles, which have collectively been cited over 13,000 times. With an h-index exceeding 60 and an i10 index surpassing 200, Manish Kumar has been recognized among the top 2% of researchers globally, as published by Elsevier based on the ranking algorithm from Stanford University.

His academic and research training encompasses institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He led the team that was the first to identify the SARS-CoV-2 gene in Indian wastewater. He served on the expert panel on antimicrobial resistance for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and led projects funded by organizations like UKIERI, UNICEF, and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). His research has been featured in the EU newsletters, WHO reports, and the U.S. EPA research calls. He provides editorial services to journals such as Elsevier and Springer.

Manish Kumar joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• M.Phil. and M.Sc., Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• B. Sc., Chemistry, Lalit Narayan Mithila University

• Mootapally, Chandrashekar & Sharma, Parth & Dash, Siddhant & Kumar, Manish & Sharma, Shiksha & Kothari, Ramesh & Nathani, Neelam. (2025). Microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles in deep sediments of the Kathiawar Peninsula Gulfs of India. Science of The Total Environment. 965. 178609. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178609. 
• Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Manish & Bahukhandi, kanchan Deoli & Zang, Jian. (2024). Traversing the prevalence of microplastics in soil-agro ecosystems: Origin, occurrence, and pollutants synergies. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104398. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104398. 
• Torres-Martínez, Juan Antonio & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish & Loge, Frank & Kaown, Dugin. (2024). Advancing groundwater quality predictions: Machine learning challenges and solutions. Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174973. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174973. 
• Sudarsan, Jayaraman & Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Rakesh & Raval, Nirav & Leifels, Mats & Mukherjee, Santanu & Trivedi, Mrugesh & Jain, Shirish & Zang, Jian & Barceló, Damià & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Tricks and tracks of prevalence, occurrences, treatment technologies, and challenges of mixtures of emerging contaminants in the environment: With special emphasis on microplastic. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 265. 104389. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104389. 
• Park, Kyu-hyun & Furumai, Hiroaki & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Suburban Runoff Modeling for Seasonal Water Management in Rice Paddy Fields: An Elaborated Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry. ACS ES&T Water. 4. 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00124. 

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Dr. Manish Kumar serves as a full-time Distinguished Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, he directed the Sustainability Cluster within the School of Advanced Engineering at UPES in Dehradun, India, and held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Tezpur University in Assam. He is a fellow of prominent organizations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI), and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). His research is on elucidating, expanding, and developing multiple aspects of the fate, transport, and remediation of geogenic, microbial, and emerging contaminants in water.

He has authored more than 250 SCI/SCIE articles, which have collectively been cited over 13,000 times. With an h-index exceeding 60 and an i10 index surpassing 200, Manish Kumar has been recognized among the top 2% of researchers globally, as published by Elsevier based on the ranking algorithm from Stanford University.

His academic and research training encompasses institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He led the team that was the first to identify the SARS-CoV-2 gene in Indian wastewater. He served on the expert panel on antimicrobial resistance for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and led projects funded by organizations like UKIERI, UNICEF, and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). His research has been featured in the EU newsletters, WHO reports, and the U.S. EPA research calls. He provides editorial services to journals such as Elsevier and Springer.

Manish Kumar joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• M.Phil. and M.Sc., Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• B. Sc., Chemistry, Lalit Narayan Mithila University

• Mootapally, Chandrashekar & Sharma, Parth & Dash, Siddhant & Kumar, Manish & Sharma, Shiksha & Kothari, Ramesh & Nathani, Neelam. (2025). Microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles in deep sediments of the Kathiawar Peninsula Gulfs of India. Science of The Total Environment. 965. 178609. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178609. 
• Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Manish & Bahukhandi, kanchan Deoli & Zang, Jian. (2024). Traversing the prevalence of microplastics in soil-agro ecosystems: Origin, occurrence, and pollutants synergies. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104398. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104398. 
• Torres-Martínez, Juan Antonio & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish & Loge, Frank & Kaown, Dugin. (2024). Advancing groundwater quality predictions: Machine learning challenges and solutions. Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174973. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174973. 
• Sudarsan, Jayaraman & Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Rakesh & Raval, Nirav & Leifels, Mats & Mukherjee, Santanu & Trivedi, Mrugesh & Jain, Shirish & Zang, Jian & Barceló, Damià & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Tricks and tracks of prevalence, occurrences, treatment technologies, and challenges of mixtures of emerging contaminants in the environment: With special emphasis on microplastic. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 265. 104389. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104389. 
• Park, Kyu-hyun & Furumai, Hiroaki & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Suburban Runoff Modeling for Seasonal Water Management in Rice Paddy Fields: An Elaborated Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry. ACS ES&T Water. 4. 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00124. 

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"I'm drawn towards the possibility of learning a new science every day and of sharing that knowledge with the students that take an interest in it." From the scientific point of view, what interests Julio César Gutiérrez Vega the most is physics in general; however, he inclines toward fields such as optics, mechanics, electromagnetism, and quantum physics. He claims he can't explain why, but since his childhood, he has enjoyed abstract mathematics and the way it can apply to model processes both in physics and in other disciplines. 

He earned a Doctorate in Optics after studying for a master's degree in Electrical Engineering. The reason was mostly circumstantial, since his intention was to make fiber optic sensors to predict short circuit for the Comisión Federal de Electricidad; he suddenly realized optics had its own charm and decided to focus his research toward that field. Gutiérrez Vega claims his social responsibility as a university professor is the highly-specialized human capital formation. A real challenge since, even if times and material resources evolve, the matter is still the same after hundreds of years of schooling.

• Mathematical Physics
• Physical Engineering Project
• Quantum Mechanics
• Research Integration
• Research Internship

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Doctorate in Sciences with Specialty in Optics, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica

Industrial Physical Engineer, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Master of Science with specialization in Electrical Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Analytic equations to design optical systems with three stigmatic pairs in the meridional plane.  Optical Engineering.  60. 2021 
• Robertson-Schrödinger uncertainty relation for qubits: A visual approach.  European Journal of Physics.  42. 2021 
• Exact equations to design a stigmatic singlet that meets the Herschel's condition.  Optics Communications.  485. 2021 
• Exact equations for stigmatic singlet design meeting the Abbe sine condition.  Optics Communications.  479. 2021 
• Geometric phase of dielectric multilayers.  Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics.  37:3170-3178. 2020

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Senior Member SPIE, conferred by The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2010

Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 3 (Gutiérrez-Vega, Julio César)

"I'm drawn towards the possibility of learning a new science every day and of sharing that knowledge with the students that take an interest in it." From the scientific point of view, what interests Julio César Gutiérrez Vega the most is physics in general; however, he inclines toward fields such as optics, mechanics, electromagnetism, and quantum physics. He claims he can't explain why, but since his childhood, he has enjoyed abstract mathematics and the way it can apply to model processes both in physics and in other disciplines. 

He earned a Doctorate in Optics after studying for a master's degree in Electrical Engineering. The reason was mostly circumstantial, since his intention was to make fiber optic sensors to predict short circuit for the Comisión Federal de Electricidad; he suddenly realized optics had its own charm and decided to focus his research toward that field. Gutiérrez Vega claims his social responsibility as a university professor is the highly-specialized human capital formation. A real challenge since, even if times and material resources evolve, the matter is still the same after hundreds of years of schooling.

• Mathematical Physics
• Physical Engineering Project
• Quantum Mechanics
• Research Integration
• Research Internship

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Doctorate in Sciences with Specialty in Optics, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica

Industrial Physical Engineer, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Master of Science with specialization in Electrical Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Analytic equations to design optical systems with three stigmatic pairs in the meridional plane.  Optical Engineering.  60. 2021 
• Robertson-Schrödinger uncertainty relation for qubits: A visual approach.  European Journal of Physics.  42. 2021 
• Exact equations to design a stigmatic singlet that meets the Herschel's condition.  Optics Communications.  485. 2021 
• Exact equations for stigmatic singlet design meeting the Abbe sine condition.  Optics Communications.  479. 2021 
• Geometric phase of dielectric multilayers.  Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics.  37:3170-3178. 2020

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Senior Member SPIE, conferred by The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2010

Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 3 (Gutiérrez-Vega, Julio César)

Dr. Joel C. Huegel is tenured professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara in Mexico. He became a member of the prestigious National System of Researchers (S.N.I. Level 1) In 2016. Also in 2016 he received the "Inspiring Professor" award at Campus Guadalajara and was a finalist in the national award. 

Huegel completed his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 2009 at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Previous to both Rice and four years of teaching experience at the Tecnológico, Huegel obtained a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was human-robot interaction for training and rehabilitation in challenging dynamic motor skill tasks. 

Now, as researcher at the Tec de Monterrey, Huegel develops technology for underprivileged communities and basic industrial biomechatronic applications. One project of particular interest is the design and testing of an ultra low-cost, high activity prosthetic foot. In 2014 he was granted the Pauchon Foundation annual award $6,500 USD with which he founded Tecnologias para la Comunidad, a NGO to deliver prosthesis. The organization won the 2016 Talloires Network MacJannet Award in recongnition of its student civic engagement program. 

For this and other projects, Huegel has obtained slightly over 2 million pesos (120,000USD) in government grants, industry funding, and university seed funding. Under his leadership, his team of undergradute and graduate students have published over 30 journal and conference publications including 7 Patents pending. Huegel's passion for teaching engineering with excellence in the developing world has taken him to live and travel in countries across the americas, Asia United States and Mexico.

• Computer Drawing
• Doctoral Research
• Dynamics
• Guided Research
• Machine Design and Development

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Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, Rice University

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington

Mechanical engineer, Le Tourneau University

• Pseudo Fatigue Test of Passive Energy-Returning Prosthetic Foot 2017 
• Corrosion and wear resistance in Simulated Body Fluid for TiAlPtN/TiAlN/TiAl multilayer films deposited over a CoCrMo substrate by means of Plasma Enhanced Magnetron Sputtering 2016 
• Aerodynamic Principles of Golf Balls: An Alternative to the Exterior Design of Heavy Vehicles 2013 
• Tee-R: Platform for the study of virtual task-oriented motion and its correlation to surface biopotentials 2013 

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Premio Jalisco - Categoría Cientifica, conferred by Gobierno de Jalisco, 2018

Member, conferred by Asoc Mexicana de Ciencia y Tecnologia e Inovacion, 2014

Senior Member, conferred by IEEE, 2014

Annual Award - Betterment of Mankind, conferred by Pauchon Foundation, 2013

Mexican Researcher Certification - Level 1 (Huegel-West, Joel Carlos)