Curriculum Vitae
Edgar Gasperin Garcia
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Edgar Gasperin Garcia
Citation names
- Gasperin, Edgar
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D512-16FB-5F13
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1170-5121
Email addresses
- edgar.gasperin@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Instituto Superior Técnico, CENTRA, Pavilhão de Física, 4º Piso Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://edgargasperin.github.io/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2013/10/01 - 2017/09/30
Concluded
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Doctor of Philosophy (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
"Applications of conformal methods to the analysis of global properties of solutions to the Einstein field
equations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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PhD |
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2007/09/01 - 2012/05/31
Concluded
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Licenciatura en Física (Bachelor)
Major in Physics
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
"Movimiento geodésico en singularidades desnudas (Geodesic motion in naked singularities)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Bachelor's degree |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2021/07/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal | ||
| 2020/10/01 - 2021/09/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Université de Bourgogne, France |
| Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, France | ||
| 2018/05/07 - 2020/09/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/03 - 2024/09 | Gravitational waves and the conformal Einstein field equations
2022.01390.PTDC
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2013/10/01 - 2017/09/30 | Applications of conformal methods to the analysis of global properties of solutions to the Einstein field equations
CONACyT scholarship 494039/218141
PhD Student Fellow
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021 - 2027 | Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Null and Spatial Infinity
2020.03845.CEECIND
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Outputs
Publications
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| Magazine article |
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| Preprint |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/07/17 | The polyhomogeneity of the gravitational field and conserved charges at null infinity | Seminar at University of Aveiro
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/25 | The polyhomogeneity of the gravitational field and conserved charges at null infinity. | Seminar at University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)
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| 2024/02/06 | La frontera conforme en el problema de valores iniciales en relatividad general. | Seminar at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences UNAM
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (mexico city, Mexico)
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| 2024/01/12 | Infinito nulo en el problema de valores iniciales en Relatividad General | Seminar at Faculty of Sciences, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (Puebla, Mexico)
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| 2023/12/07 | Al infinito y más allá: infinito conforme y el problema de valores iniciales | Seminario de Gravitación y Teoría de Campos, https://www.nucleares.unam.mx/eventos.php?evento=948&key=1800
Nuclear Science Institute, UNAM (Mexico city, Mexico)
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| 2023/06/10 | Polyhomogeneity of spin-0 fields and the good-bad-ugly system | Infinity on a Gridshell, https://hyperboloid.al/event/copenhagen-23/
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
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| 2023/05/10 | The good-bad-ugly system near spatial infinity on flat spacetime, https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/05/general-relativity/ | At the interface of asymptotics, conformal methods and analysis in general relativity
The Royal Society (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/04/12 | The conformal Killing spinor initial data equations | Johns Hopkins University, Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, United States)
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| 2022/02/23 | Staticity and regularity for zero rest-mass fields near spatial infinity on flat spacetime | 12th Central European Relativity Seminar
Wigner Research Center for Physics (Budapest, Hungary)
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| 2021/12/20 | Staticity and regularity for spin-2 fields near spatial infinity on flat spacetime | XIV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2021/10/21 | Staticity and regularity for zero rest-mass fields near spatial infinity on flat spacetime | Joint CENTRA and CAMGSD seminar
Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/10/07 | Physical scales in black hole scattering pseudospectra: the role of the scalar product | LUTH seminars
LUTH (Le Laboratoire Univers et Théories) University of Paris (Meudon, France)
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| 2021/09/01 | The Role of the Energy Scalar Product in the QNM Spectral Instability Problem | Global meeting of the GWVerse COST action
GWVerse COST action (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/06/24 | Zero rest-mass fields and the Newman-Penrose constants on flat space | Journée d'equipe Math-Phys Institute de Mathematiques de Bourgogne
Institute de Mathematiques de Bourgogne (Dijon, France)
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| 2020/09/07 | Zero rest-mass fields and the Newman-Penrose constants on flat space | CENTRA-GRIT seminar
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2020/02/20 | The Weak Null Condition in Free-evolution Schemes for Numerical Relativity | 10th Central European Relativity Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Golm, Germany)
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| 2020/02/20 | The Weak Null Condition in Free-evolution Schemes for Numerical Relativity | 10th Central European Relativity Seminar
The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) (Potsdam, Germany)
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| 2019/07/11 | The Weak Null Condition In Free-Evolution: Dual Foliation GHG With Constraint Damping | 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
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| 2019/01/10 | Agujeros negros y efectos relativistas en viajes espaciales (Outreach talk at the Mexican Space Agency) | Seminario de divulgación AEM (Outreach seminar Mexican Space Agency)
Agencia Espacial Mexicana (Mexican Space Agency) (Mexico City, Mexico)
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| 2018/12/18 | The weak null condition and constraint damping in NR --or the good, the bad and the ugly in free-evolution schemes-- | XI Black Holes Workshop The Black Hole: 50 Years After
Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/10/25 | Black holes and spacetime diagrams in General Relativity (Outreach talk for undergraduate students at IST) | NAPE Skills Factory
Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/06/28 | Perturbations of the asymptotic region of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. | Seminar, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Tecnico
CENTRA, Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2017 | Zero rest-mass fields and the Newman-Penrose constants on flat space. | 7th Central European Relativity Seminar
Bremen University (Bremen, Germany)
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| 2017 | Conformal methods in General Relativity and applications: Perturbations of the asymptotic region of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime | Seminar Instituto Avanzado de Cosmología IAC
Nuclear Science Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (ICN- UNAM) (Mexico City, Mexico)
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| 2017 | Conformal methods in General Relativity and applications: Killing spinors at Scri. | Seminar Instituto de Física UNAM
Instituto de Física Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico)
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| 2016 | Conformal properties of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime | Postgraduate Research Day at Queen Mary University
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2016 | Conformal properties of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime | London Relativity and Cosmology Seminar
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2016 | Zero-rest mass fields and the Newman-Penrose constants on flat space. | Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2016 | Conformal properties of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. | 6th Central European Relativity Seminar
Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2016 | Conformal properties of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. | 21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
Columbia University (New York, United States)
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| 2016 | Zero rest-mass fields and the Newman-Penrose constants on flat space. | Vienna Relativity Seminars
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2016 | Zero rest-mass fields and the Newman-Penrose constants on flat space | Workshop on Numerical and Mathematical Relativity
University of Jena (Oppurg, Germany)
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| 2016 | Warp drive: surfing through spacetime (Outreach talk at Pint of Science Festival) | Pint of Science Festival
Pint of Science (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2015 | An introduction to vector field methods in General Relativity. | Queen Mary Internal Postgraduate Seminar (QUIPS)
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2015 | The conformal Einstein field equations and black hole spacetimes; the extremal Schwarzschild de-Sitter spacetime. | Astronomy Student Seminar, Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2015 | Conformal properties of the extreme Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. | British Gravity Meeting BritGrav
University of Birmingham (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2014 | Penrose diagrams and conformal infinity. | Queen Mary Internal Postgraduate Seminar (QUIPS)
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2014 | The extended conformal Einstein field equations and black hole spacetimes. | Queen Mary Internal Postgraduate Seminar (QUIPS)
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2014 | Conformal field equations as wave equations in spinorial formalism. | British Gravity Meeting BritGrav
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2025 - Current | DAlembert's formula close to spatial and null infinity. PIC1 project
Supervisor
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Licenciatura Bolonha em Engenharia Fi´sica Tecnológica
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2023 - Current | Gravitational fields of naked singularities
Supervisor
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Mestrado Bolonha em Engenharia Fi´sica Tecnológica
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2021/10/01 - 2025/10/01 | Hyperboloidal implementation in numerical relativity
Co-supervisor
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Fisica (PhD)
Instituto Superior Tecnico IST, Portugal
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| 2022/10/27 - 2023/12/05 | Symmetry Conservation in General Relativity. An Application of the Initial Value Problem
Co-supervisor
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Mestrado Bolonha em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Master)
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2022/10/22 - 2023/10/20 | The cylinder at spatial infinity and asymptotic charges
Co-supervisor
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Mestrado Bolonha em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Master)
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2022/10/22 - 2023/06/22 | Supervised Bachelor's thesis project (Projeto Integrador 1ºano(PIC)) of Manuel Ratola, Conformal Approach to General Relativity
Supervisor
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Licenciatura Bolonha em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2021/10/01 - 2022/07/23 | Projeto Novos Talentos em Física de Gulbenkian: Hyperboloidal slices close to spatial and null infinity in flat spacetime.
Supervisor
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Projeto de Novos Talentos em Física de Gulbenkian (Scientific initiation)
Instituto Superior Tecnico IST, Portugal
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| 2020/10/30 - 2021/06/01 | Circular geodesics in the Reissner Nordstroem spacetime
Supervisor
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Mathematics Master (Master)
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, France
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| 2020/10/30 - 2021/06/01 | Circular geodesics in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime
Supervisor
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Mathematics Master (Master)
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, France
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/04/24 - 2022/04/29 | The Banff International Research Station will host the "At the Interface of Mathematical Relativity and Astrophysics" workshop
in Banff from April 24 - 29, 2022. https://www.birs.ca/events/2022/5-day-workshops/22w5025 (2022/04/24 - 2022/04/29)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Banff International Research Station, Canada |
| 2021/08/30 - 2021/09/03 | Global meeting of the GWVerse COST action. Co-organiser .
https://gwverse.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/activities/global-meeting-gwverse-cost-action/ (2021/08/30 - 2021/09/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/02/12 - 2024/03/25 | Waves and Oscillations, February 2024-April 2024 | Licenciatura Bolonha em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Ensino básico 2º ciclo) | Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2022/11/21 - 2023/01/09 | Black Holes and Gravitational Waves, November 2022-January 2023 | Masters and PhD level course (Mestrado) | Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2021/09/01 - 2022/02/28 | Black Holes and Gravitational Waves | Fisica (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Superior Tecnico IST, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2023 - 2024 | Asymptotics of spin-0 fields and conserved charges on n-dimensional Minkowski spaces | Dr. Mariem Magdy Ali Mohamed |
| 2022 - 2023 | Asymptotic analysis of the Einstein field equations in generalised harmonic gauge | Dr Miguel Duarte |
| 2021/11/30 - 2022/09/30 | Hyperboloidal slices close to spatial and null infinity in flat spacetime --- | João Dinis Álvares |
| 2020/10/30 - 2021/04/30 | Circular Geodesics in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime | Firoz Khan |
| 2020/10/30 - 2021/04/30 | Circular Geodesics in the Reissner-Nordstroem spacetime | Ghewa Dorra |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/04/01 - 2022/06/06 | Academic Visit to Johns Hopkins University (United States) | Johns Hopkins University Department of Mathematics, United States |
Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | 2022.01390.PTDC |
| 2016 | C.R. Barber Trust Fund, Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
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| 2016 | Postgraduate Research Fund, Queen Mary University of London.
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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| 2015 | IOP Research Student Conference fund, Institute of Physics.
Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
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| 2015 | Eileen Colyer Prize
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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| 2013 | PhD Studentship 494039/218141.
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico
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| 2013 | Postgraduate scholarship, Mexican Ministry of Public Education (Beca complemento SEP)
Gobierno Federal de Mexico Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico
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