PEOPLE

Dr. Alvaro Muñoz Castro
Ph.D. Molecular Physical Chemistry
Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.
Chemist
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile.

Dr. Muñoz-Castro, chemist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Ph.D in Molecular Physical Chemistry from Universidad Andrés Bello, under the Prof. Arratia-Perez supervision. Currently, is part of the advisory editorial board from Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C, ChemPhysChem, Journal of Physcial Chemistry Letters, and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, with interest in areas ranging from gold nanoparticles and from other elements and alloys, with focus on their molecular properties of bonding and dynamics at their ground and excited states; Chemical bonding, expanding classical concepts to metallic and main group clusters, magnetic response and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), aromaticity, among others. His achievements have been recorded in several publications and book chapters, with supervised Ph.D. theses. Currently, is full professor at Universidad San Sebastián, Chile.

Ph.D. Student

M.Sc. Margot Inés Paco Chipana
(current) Ph.D. Student in Computational Biology, Universidad San Sebastián, Chile
M.Sc. in Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modeling in Physics, -

Chemistry and Biochemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Biotechnology Engineer, Universidad Católica de Santa María, Perú

Margot Inés Paco Chipana is a PhD student in Computational Biology at Universidad San Sebastián, Chile. She holds a Master’s degree in Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modelling in Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry from the Universitat de Barcelona, and previously worked as a research assistant at the Computational Biology and Chemistry Research Group of Universidad Católica de Santa María. Her research integrates molecular modeling, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics simulations, and virtual screening approaches to study supramolecular recognition, host–guest systems, biomolecular interactions, and pollutant behavior. This work has led her to author and co-author several scientific publications and to contribute to FONDECYT-funded projects in Peru focused on environmental and biomedical applications of computational and cheminformatics methods.

Postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Edinson Medina
Post-Doc researcher, Universidad San Sebastian - USS, Chile.
D.Sc. Doble Titulación, Mención Química. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María –
Universidad de Valparaíso. Chile.
Qco. Universidad de la Amazonia – UDLA, Colombia.

D.Sc. with mention in chemistry, graduated from the joint Ph.D program in chemistry at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile), where he completed his thesis in the Computational Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry research group led by Dr. Balazs Pinter.
He is currently conducting frontier research on metallic clusters and molecular electronics as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the AMC-LAB research group, led by Dr. Álvaro Muñoz Castro at Universidad San Sebastián. Within his current scientific work, he studies the electronic structure and quantum transport properties of potential molecular systems for applications in nanoelectronic components that may redefine the electronics of the future.

Former members

Postdoctoral fellows

Dra. Macarena Rojas
Post-Doct Fellowship, FONDECYT, 2019-2021

Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile.

Dr. Peter Ludwig Rodríguez-Kessler

Post-Doct Fellowship, FONDECYT, 2019-2021

Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile.

Ph.D Graduates

Dra. Carolina Olea Ulloa
Ph.D. Molecular Physical Chemistry

Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.
Pharmacist
Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.

Dr. Miguel Ponce Vargas

Post-Doc researcher, Université de Rennes 1, France.