Carlos Amador

Profesor Titular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Facultad de Química
Email: amador.carlos@gmail.com
My CV

Education

Doctorate in Physical Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1989)
Asesor: Prof. Alejandro Pisanty

Visiting Scholar at University of California at Berkeley, Department of Chemistry (2005)
Host: Prof. William Lester Jr.

Staff Scientist at University of California at Berkeley, Department of Materials Science (1994)
Advisor: Prof. Didier de Fontaine

Research Scientist at Case Western Reserve, Department of Physics (1990-1992)
Advisor: Prof. Benjamin Segall

M. Sc., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1984),
Asesor: Prof. Jaime Keller

B. Sc. in Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1983),
Asesor: Prof. Jaime Keller

Research Interests

• Quantum Monte Carlo for chemical problems.

• Density Functional Theory.

Selected Publications

• Carlos Amador-Bedolla, Romelia Salomón-Ferrer, William A. Lester Jr. José Alfredo Vázquez-Martínez and Alán Aspuru-Guzik. "Reagents for electrophilic amination: a quantum Monte-Carlo study", J. Phys. Chem. 126, 204308 (2007)
• G. Bozzolo, R. D. Noebe and C. Amador. "Site occupancy of ternary additions to B2 alloys", Intermetallics 10, 149-159 (2002)
• R. Gómez-Balderas, R. Oviedo-Roa, J. M. Martínez-Magadán, C. Amador, D. A. Dixon. "A comparative DFT study of the catalytic activity of the 3d transition metal sulphides surfaces", Surface Science 518, 163-173 (2002)
• C. Amador, J. J. Hoyt, B. C. Chakoumakos, and D. de Fontaine. "Theoretical and experimental study of relaxation in Al3Ti and Al3Zr ordered phases", Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4955 (1995)
• C. Amador, W. R. L. Lambrecht, M. van Schilfgaarde, and B. Segall. "Internal strain effects on the phase diagram of Ni-Pt alloys", Phys. Rev. B 47, 15276 (1993)

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Last update Feb 07