{"id":111,"date":"2019-04-03T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saadata.com\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:22:20","slug":"cv-juan-carlos-castro-palacio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Profesor Titular (Equiv. Associate Professor)<em> <\/em>(<em>Physics<\/em>)<br>Department of Applied Physics, Center of Physical Technologies<br>Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>I develop computational and quantitative methods to understand complex systems. My research integrates physics, applied mathematics, and data-driven methodologies to investigate phenomena ranging from molecular dynamics and stochastic processes to learning in higher education.<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some related institutions: <br><em>Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology (Havana) (BSc &amp; PhD), Weizmann Institute of Sciences (Israel) (2005), University of Tokyo (2007-2009), University of Basel (Switzerland) (2013-2015),  Imperial College London (2015-2018), Technical University of Madrid (2018-2019, 2020-2021).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: juancas@upvnet.upv.es<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">___________________________________________________________________<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Research stays<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Academic visit to Florida International University (April, 2026).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research stay with Prof. Ricardo Grau&#8217;s group at Queen Mary University of London (January\u2013April 2026).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research stay with Prof. Georg Held&#8217;s group at the <em>Diamond Light Source<\/em> synchrotron (UK), conducted in close collaboration with Prof. Ricardo Grau&#8217;s group at Queen Mary University of London (January\u2013July 2025).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Articles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1402-4896\/addf1c\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1402-4896\/addf1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cavity formation dynamics in gold nanoparticles (10\u201350 nm) upon femtosecond laser irradiation<\/a>. B. Khammar, F. Fern\u00e1ndez-Lima, P. Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdoba, J. A. Monsoriu, and J. C. Castro-Palacio, Phys. Scr. 100, 075920, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/sym17071039\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/sym17071039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Non-Centered Chi Distributions as Models for Fair Assessment in Sports Performance<\/a>. D. Puig-Castro, A. Coronado-Ferrer, J. C. Castro-Palacio, P. Fern\u00e1ndez-de-C\u00f3rdoba, N. Ortigosa, and E. A. S\u00e1nchez-P\u00e9rez, Symmetry 17, 1039, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1119\/5.0142064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Wireless Li-Fi-Based Signal Generator and Its Use in a Series RC Circuit<\/a>. F. M. Mu\u00f1oz-P\u00e9rez, J. C. Castro-Palacio, J. Guerra-Carmenate, M. E. Iglesias-Mart\u00ednez, P. Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdoba, J. A. Monsoriu, The Physics Teacher 62, 426\u2013427, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Conferences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oral contribution at the COST Innovators Grant IG18234 \u2013 \u201cMachine learning from computational materials science data for modelling nanocrystal catalysts\u201d on 16-18 July 2025, Budapest, Hungary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oral contribution at the Summer Meeting 2024 of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), July 6-11, 2024, Boston, MA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) since 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Awards<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Award for Innovative Activity in Scientific Communication and Dissemination<\/em><\/span> by Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Spain (October 2022). (As a member of the team that received the award).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Prize for the Best Physics Teaching Article published in the journal of the Royal Physical Society of Spain in 2018.<br><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/rsef.es\/images\/Fisica\/FalloJuradoPdeF_2019.pdf\">https:\/\/rsef.es\/images\/Fisica\/FalloJuradoPdeF_2019.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; (page 5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Press release<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Interview with Physics magazine (Americal Physical Society) to talk about &#8220;Smartphones in Physics teaching&#8221; (Date: 6-4-2020). <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou cannot take home a whole physics laboratory, but most people have a smartphone,\u201d says Juan Carlos Castro Palacio, a nuclear physicist from Spain, who studies the use of smartphones as educational tools for physics. With a phone, you can conduct experiments on most of the topics of a general physics lab, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> fragment from the article:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v13\/68\">https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v13\/68<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio Profesor Titular (Equiv. Associate Professor) (Physics)Department of Applied Physics, Center of Physical TechnologiesUniversitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia, Spain Some related institutions: Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology (Havana) (BSc &amp; PhD), Weizmann Institute of Sciences (Israel) (2005), University of Tokyo (2007-2009), University of Basel (Switzerland) (2013-2015), Imperial College London (2015-2018), Technical University&hellip;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"excerpt-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/saadata.com\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> <\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\"> &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":227,"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saadata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}