Nicolás AntonioUlloa CastilloCurriculum Vitae

Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

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Personal InformationFull Name Nicolás Antonio Ulloa Castillo

Place of birth San Luis Potosí, MéxicoNationality Mexican

Education2010–2015 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Materials and optoelectronic devices.

Centro de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México2007–2010 Master of Science, Photonic/Electro-Optic devices.

Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Óptica, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México2003–2007 Bachelor in Applied Physics (Engineering Physics).

Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México

Research ExperienceOct 2017 –

PresentInstituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, MéxicoProject: "Design and characterization of a Hybrid Solar Cell based on low-dimensional nanos-tructures"Supervisor: Dr. Alex Elías-ZúñigaPostdoctoral Research Stay

Sep 2016 –Sep 2017

Paul-Drude-Institut fur Festkorperelektronik, Berlin, GermanyProject: "Surface acoustic waves to explore coherent electron spin transport in dipolaritonscondensates"Supervisor: Dr. Paulo Ventura SantosPostdoctoral Research Stay

Summer 2014 Paul-Drude-Institut fur Festkorperelektronik, Berlin, GermanyProject: "Spin properties of acoustically modulated exciton-polaritons"Supervisors: Dr. Paulo Ventura Santos & Dr. Edgar Armando Cerda MendezResearch Intern

Academic honors, Scholarship and Grants2017–2018 CONACyT-SENER Postdoctoral Scholarship

2017 Member of National Research System (SNI) Fellow as Candidate, México2016–2017 CONACyT Postdoctoral Scholarship

2014 DAAD-PROALMEX Grant, Germany-México2005–2006 Academic Excellence Award, Achievement award for best B.S. Applied Physics’ Student

Faculty of Sciences, UASLP, México

Research Projects2017–Present Sodium/Lithium-ion batteries based on nanofibers, NTU-Tec de Monterrey2017–Present Nanometal Compound, PEI Project, SIEMENS-Tec de Monterrey2017–Present Photovoltaic Advanced Materials based on nanofibers, Tecnológico de Monterrey

2016–Present Advanced optical spectroscopies for optoelectronic devices, UASLP-Tec de Monterrey

Work ExperienceJul 2017 Evaluation Committee, International Doctoral Program for Mexican students.

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), MéxicoJan 2015 -Aug 2016

Science Courses to undergraduate students, Basic Sciences department.Instituto Tecnológico de San Luis Potosí, México

Summer 2014 Propaedeutic courses, Applied mathematical methods in physics.Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Óptica – Centro de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado,Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México

Sep 2012 Evaluation Committee, Regional Technological Innovation 2012.Instituto Tecnológico de San Luis Potosí, México

Summer2004/2005

Propaedeutic courses, Physic and Calculus.Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México

Participation at conferences2018 Carbon nanofibers based on polyacrylonitrile prepared by the Forcespinning method, and their

application in lithium-ion batteriesParticipant at International Conference on Nanotechnology Tec.Nano 2018Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey

2017 Acoustic fields to explore coherent electron spin transport in dipolaritons condensatesTalk at SAWtrain Summer SchoolCargèse, Corsica, Francia

2014 Measurement of the surface strain on GaAs(001) induced by deposition of Gd2O3 usingphotoreflectance-difference spectroscopyTalk at 41st Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and InterfaceSanta Fe, New Mexico

2010 Microreflectance difference spectrometer based on a charge coupled device cameraPoster at 5thInternational Conference on Spectroscopic EllipsometryAlbany, New York

2010 One electron and discrete excitonic contributions to the optical response of semiconductors:Analysis in the reciprocal spacePoster at VII Ibero-American Conference on Optics X Latin-American Meeting on Optics, Lasersand ApplicationsLima, Perú

Courses2017 Trends in organs-on-a-chip and drug delivery for future personalized medicine,

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyMonterrey, México

2015 Ellipsometry school 2015,Universidad Autónoma de San Luis PotosíSan Luis Potosí, México

2007 Microwave photonicsVII Anniversary of Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación ÓpticaSan Luis Potosí, México

2006 Fiber optic devices VI Anniversary of Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación ÓpticaSan Luis Potosí, México

2006 LabVIEW specialized course VI Anniversary of Instituto de Investigación en ComunicaciónÓpticaSan Luis Potosí, México

Publications2019 "Role of the crystallization on composite BaTiO3-PVP nanofibers developed by centrifugal force

spinning"N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, K. Ángel-Sánchez and A. Elías-Zuñiga, In process , January (2019)

2019 "Role of the crystallization on ultra high molecular weight polyethylene multiwalled carbonnanotubes composites"N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, E. Segura-Cárdenas, C. Rodríguez-Aranda and A. Elías-Zuñiga, In process, January (2019)

2018 "Design, fabrication and characterization of polycaprolactone (PCL)-TiO2-collagenase nanofibermesh scaffold by Forcespinning"K. Ángel-Sánchez, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, E. Segura-Cárdenas, O. Martínez-Romero and A. Elías-Zuñiga, Accepted to MRS Communications , January (2019)

2017 "Microscopic optical anisotropy of exciton-polaritons in a GaAs-based semiconductor microcav-ity"L. F. Lastras-Martínez, E. Cerda-Méndez, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, R. Herrera-Jasso, L. E.Rodríguez-Tapia, O. Ruiz-Cigarrillo, R. Castro-García, K. Biermann, and P. V. Santos, Phys.Rev. B 96, 235306 (2017)

2017 "Optical detection of graphene nanoribbons synthesized on stepped SiC surfaces"L. F. Lastras-Martínez, J. Almendarez-Rodríguez, G. Flores-Rangel, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo,O. Ruiz-Cigarrillo, C. A. Ibarra-Becerra, R. Castro-García, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, M. H.OliveiraJr., and J. M. J. Lopes, J. Appl. Phys. 122, 035701 (2017)

2016 "Residual electric fields of InGaAs/AlAs/AlAsSb(001) coupled double quantum wells structuresassessed by photoreflectance anisotropy"J. V. González-Fernández, R. Herrera-Jasso, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, J. Ortega-Gallegos, R. Castro-García, L. F. Lastras-Martínez, A. Lastras-Martínez, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, T. Mozume, S.Gozu, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 30, 1550248 (2016)

2015 "Characterization of Si3N4/Si(111) thin films by reflectance difference spectroscopy"L. F. Lastras-Martínez, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, R. Herrera-Jasso, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, A.Lastras-Martínez, M. Pandikunta, O. Ledyaev, V. Kuryatkov, S. Nikishin, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.54, 021501 (2015)

2014 "Measurement of the shear strain of the Gd2O3/GaAs(001) interface by photoreflectance differencespectroscopy"N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, L. F. Lastras-Martínez, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, R. Herrera-Jasso, and A.Lastras-Martínez, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 181905 (2014)

2013 "Optical characterization of orientation-patterned GaP structures by micro reflectance differencespectroscopy"L. F. Lastras-Martínez, R. Herrera-Jasso, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, AngieC. Lin, A. Lastras-Martínez, M. M. Fejer, and James S. Harris, J. Appl. Phys. 114, 173504(2013)

2013 "Reflectance anisotropies of compressively strained Si grown on vicinal Si1−xCx(001)"R. E. Balderas-Navarro, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, K. Arimoto, G. Ramírez-Meléndez, L. F. Lastras-Martínez, H. Furukawa, J. Yamanaka, A. Lastras-Martínez, J. M. Flores-Camacho, N. Usami,D. Stifter, and K. Hingerl, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 011902 (2013)

2012 "Micro reflectance difference techniques: Optical probes for surface exploration"L. F. Lastras-Martínez, O. del Pozo-Zamudio, R. Herrera-Jasso, N. A. Ulloa-Castillo, R. E.Balderas-Navarro, J. Ortega-Gallegos, and A. Lastras-Martínez, Phys. Status Solidi B, 249,1119 (2012)

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