Applied Physics and Advanced Technologies

CIO

Natanael Cuando-Espitia

Personal

Research interests

•Optical techniques in material characterization

•Laser physics in disordered media

•Light-tissue interaction for medical diagnosis

•Interaction matter-pulsed laser light

Education

Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM, México D.F.

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. Thesis: Bovine pericardium random lasers, 2015. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM, México D.F.

• M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. Thesis: Si02 nanoparticle dye-based random lasers, 2011. Facultad de Ingenieria UNAM, México D.F.

• B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering. Thesis: Polarized feedback in fiber lasers, 2009.

Experience

Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, México.

-Cåtedra CONACyT, DICIS-UG. November 2018 — Present

University of California Riverside, California, U.S.A.

-Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering. March 2016 — November 2018

Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales UNAM, México D.F.

-Graduate student researcher, Materials Science and Engineering. February 2009 — December 2015

Twente University, Enschede, the Netherlands.

-Graduate student researcher, Biomedical Photonics Imaging Group. September 2012 — December 2012

Facultad de Ingenieria UNAM, México D.F.

-Lecturer, Aplicaciones de optoelectronica en medicina. January 2010 - January 2011

Published papers

•Natanael Cuando-Espitia, Francisco Sånchez-Arévalo, Juan Hernåndez-Cordero, "Random laser imaging of bovine pericardium under uniaxial tensile test," Biomedical Optics Express, 9(8), 3523-3533, (2018). Impact Factor: 3.482 Natanael Cuando-Espitia, Jon Redenius, Kendrick Mensink, Marco Camacho-Lopez, Santiago Camacho-Lopez, Guillermo Aguilar, "Influence of oxygen pressure on the fs laser-induced oxidation of molybdenum thin films," Optical Materials Express, 8(3), 581-596 (2018). Impact Factor: 2.566

•Natanael Cuando-Espitia, F. M. Sånchez-Arévalo and J. Hernåndez-Cordero, "Mechanical assessment of bovine pericardium using Müeller matrix imaging, enhanced backscattering and digital image correlation analysis," Biomedical optics Express, 6(8), 2953-2960 (2015). Impact Factor: 3.482

•J. C. Briones-Herrera, N. Cuando-Espitia, F. M. Sånchez-Arévalo and J. Hernåndez-Cordero, "Evaluation of mechanical behavior of soft tissue by means of random laser emission," Review of Scientific Instluments, 84(10), 104301 (2013). Impact Factor: 1.428

•F.Tenopala-Carmona, C. Garcia-Segundo, N. Cuando-Espitia, and J. Hernåndez-Cordero, "Angular distribution of random laser emission," Optics Letters 39(3), 655-658 (2014). Impact Factor: 3.589

Honors and fellowships

•Ph.D. degree with Honorable Mention

•Sistema Nacional de Investigadores: SNI candidate, 2018-2020.

•UC MEXUS-CONACYT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: 2017-2018.

Patents and book chapters

•Sistema opto-mecånico y metodologia para evaluar el comportamiento macro y micromecånico de materiales suaves y tejidos biolögicos. Francisco M. Sånchez Arévalo, Natanael B. Cuando Espitia, Juan A. Hernåndez Cordero, J. Celso Briones Hen-era, MX345455B, febrero 2017.

•ase puede obtener informaciön estructural de un material utilizåndolo como un medio låser?" Natanael CuandoEspitia, F. M. Sånchez-Arévalo, J. Hernåndez-Cordero en: Cien Preguntas y Cien Respuestas sobre Materiales, Editorial Terracota, ISBN: 9786077616757, 2011

Article reviewer

•European Joumal ofMechanics B Fluids, Elsevier, ISBN: 0997-7546

•Optics Express, The Optical Society of America, ISBN: 1094-4087