Hugo Norberto Rojas Salinas
Full professor - UPB
Email: hrojas@upb.edu
Phone: 591 (4) 4268287 – Int.495
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Education:
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Cavendish Laboratory - University of Cambridge, England, 1992-1994)
Docteur es Sciences in Physics (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Diplôme in Physics-Mathematics (University de Geneva, Switzerland)

Expertise:
Computational solid state physics, band structure calculations, exact exchange potential of Density Functional Theory, modeling of electric discharge machining process, numerical simulation.

Professional experience:
At UPB: head of the Department of Exact Sciences (2000 – 2002), Dean of Postgraduate Studies (2002-2003) y Vice-rector of Research (2003 -).
Consultant in several projects on electro-erosion phenomena numerical modeling (2003 - 2012).
Invited lecturer at the Department of Physics of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón (1994-1995).
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge – England (1992-1994), where he developed with Prof. Rex Godby the “Space-time method” for the calculation of self-energy of large systems in the GW approximation.
Teaching assistant and PhD student at Physics School of the University of Geneva – Switzerland (1986 – 1991).