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Counselors Feliciano Sánchez Sinencio
Counselors Feliciano Sánchez Sinencio
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| Feliciano Sánchez Sinencio |
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 He was born in Mexico City in 1938. He graduated as an electrical and electronic communications engineer from the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica [Higher School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering] of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) [National Polytechnic Institute]. He obtained a master’s degree in physics at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas [Brazilian Center of Physics Research], and his PhD from the University of Sao Paulo. He has been a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Princeton. He is a researcher in the department of physics of the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav) [Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute]. Among his scientific contributions include the discovery of oxygenated amorphous cadmium telluride as a new semiconductor insulator, and other materials, such as ternaries based on CdTe, also as semiconductors. He is also recognized as a pioneer in the study of electronic transportation in sulfur crystals and in polycrystalline semiconductor materials, as well as in applying photothermal deviation spectroscopy to study semiconductors. He later focused on the nixtamalization of corn, and has worked to understand the mechanical, thermal, and nutritional properties of this process, in an attempt to improve it. He is a former director general of the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav) [Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute] and the Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada (Cicata) [Center for Research in Applied Science and Advanced Technology], also of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) [National Polytechnic Institute], where he also served as general coordinator of Graduate Studies and Research. He chaired the Sociedad Mexicana para el Progreso de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (Somprocyt) [Mexican Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology] and was director general of the Centro Latinoamericano de Física [Latin American Physics Center], one of the world's most important institutions in the area. He is a member of the Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias de la Presidencia de la República (CCC) [Sciences Consulting Council, Presidency of Mexico]. He received the Guggenheim fellowship; the Medal from the Cuban Academy of Sciences; the Premio al Desarrollo de la Física en México [Prize the Development of Physics in Mexico]; the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes [National Award for Science and Arts]; the Premio a la Investigación Científica [Prize for Scientific Research] of the Sociedad Mexicana de Superficies y Vacío [Mexican Society of Surfaces and Vacuum], and the Presea Lázaro Cárdenas [Lázaro Cárdenas Medal] of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) [National Polytechnic Institute]. He has published 121 scientific papers with 383 citations. He has been granted 4 patents in Mexico and 7 in the United States. He has tutored 11 undergraduate and 11 master's degree theses, as well as 10 doctoral dissertations. |