Vladimir García Morales: TUM-IAS

Technische UniversitÃ¤t MÃ¼nchen

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Vladimir García Morales

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Vladimir García Morales

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The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

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Awards

Selected Publications

Research Interests

IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)

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Lecture Series on Science and Society – Meet with Excellence: "Unwägbarkeiten wissenschaftl. Politikberatung – vom Klimawandel bis zur Energiewende"

Course "Statistical methods for genome-enabled selection" by TUM-IAS Fellow Prof. Daniel Gianola & Dr. Gustavo de los Campos

Renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the TUM-IAS

Single-neuron observations mark steps in Alzheimer's disease

DNA origami puts a smart lid on solid-state nanopore sensors

'Diesel Reloaded': A vehicle for rethinking mobility rolls into Hannover Messe

A look at tomorrow’s climate: Pollen levels are rising across Europe

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Spain

2010

Fellowship
Carl von Linde Junior Fellow

Institution
Technische Universität München

Department
Nonequilibrium Chemical Physics

Vladimir García Morales was born in 1978 in Valencia (Spain). He studied Physics at the University of Valencia where he received his M. Sc. grade in 2001. There, he was also awarded his doctoral degree in 2005 with a dissertation on Nanothermodynamics and ion transport properties of interfacial nanostructures (thesis advisors Prof. J. A. Manzanares and Prof. J. Pellicer). During these years he collaborated with chemists at the universities of Porto and Helsinki, and worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Valencia (“Statistical Physics” and “Fluid Mechanics”). After obtaining the ph.d. he was awarded a DAAD scholarship with which he initiated the collaboration with Prof. Krischer’s group at the physics department of the Technical University of Munich. Later he joined this group as a postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant where he worked on the establishment of general models of the dynamics of oscillatory electrochemical systems as well as of the stochastic dynamics of these systems on nanoelectrodes.

2007 Prize of Extraordinary Achievements during the Doctorate (Awarded by the University of Valencia to the best Ph. D. theses in Physics)

2001 Prize of Extraordinary Achievements during the Graduation in Physics (Awarded by the University of Valencia to the best M.Sc. grades in Physics)

V. Garcia-Morales and K. Krischer, “Fluctuation Enhanced Electrochemical Reaction Rates at the Nanoscale”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 4528 (2010)

I. Miethe, V. Garcia-Morales and K. Krischer, “Irregular Subharmonic Cluster Patterns in an Autonomous Photoelectrochemical Oscillator”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 194101 (2009)

V. Garcia-Morales and K. Krischer, “Nonlocal Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation for Electrochemical Systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 054101 (2008)

V. Garcia-Morales and K. Krischer, “Normal form approach to spatiotemporal pattern formation in globally coupled electrochemical systems” Phys. Rev. E 78 057201 (2008)

V. Garcia-Morales, R. W. Hölzel and K. Krischer, “Coherent structures emerging from turbulence in the nonlocal complex Ginzburg-Landau equation” Phys. Rev. E 78 026215 (2008)

V. García-Morales, J. Pellicer and J. A. Manzanares, “Thermodynamics based on the principle of least abbreviated action: entropy production in a network of coupled oscillators” Ann. Phys. (NY) 323, 1844 (2008).

V. Garcia-Morales and S. Mafe, “Monolayer-protected metallic nanoparticles: limitations of the concentric-sphere capacitor model” J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 7242 (2007)

V. García-Morales and J. Pellicer, “Microcanonical foundation of nonextensivity and generalized thermostatistics based on the fractality of the phase space” Physica A 361, 161 (2006)

M. Chirea, V. Garcia-Morales, R. Gulaboski, C. M. Pereira, J. A. Manzanares and F. Silva, “Electrochemical characterization of polyelectrolyte/gold nanoparticles multilayers self-assembled on gold electrodes”, J. Phys. Chem. B 109 21808 (2005)

V. Garcia-Morales, J. Cervera and J. A. Manzanares, “Nanothermodynamics” in K. Sattler, ed. Handbook of Nanoscience, vol. 1, Fundamentals (Taylor & Francis, New York, 2010, in press).

V. García-Morales’ research concentrates in the development of a theory of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics which should hierarchically encompass all physical scales ranging from the microscopic mechanical description to the macroscopic (thermodynamic) one, accounting for effects that come from self-organization and cooperativity at the nanoscale and on the hydrodynamic level. From the lowest level of description (provided by the Hamilton-Jacobi theory of classical mechanics) rigorous criteria will be given for the establishment of the most appropriate coarse-grained variables and the role of the interplay between different scales will also be investigated. Electrochemical systems offer an excellent arena to experimentally validate this theory: They exhibit a wide variety of dynamical behavior, whose deterministic dynamics can be understood through theories without free adjustable parameters, and there is the possibility from an experimental point of view to address different scales, since experiments can be carried both on nano- and macroelectrodes.

May - 2012