Lucas Jonatan Fernández

Nanophysics

lfernandez@exa.unne.edu.ar

 

 

I'm an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Modelling and Innovation on Technology (IMIT-CONICET) in Corrientes, Argentina.

I completed my Ph.D. in 2016 at the National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina under the advice of Horacio M. Pastawski, where I studied the spin-dependent Quantum transport and quantum dynamics of electrons and how they are affected by a decoherent environment.

Next, I did a postdoc in the same institution, in collaboration with Raul Bustos-Marun, where I studied Adiabatic Quantum Motors, which are highly-efficient nanomachines powered by electronic currents, and how their dynamics and performance are affected by decoherence.

After that, in 2018 I moved to the USA to do a postdoc with Tsampikos Kottos at Wesleyan University, where I shifted my area of research to Photonics, specifically Thermal Photonics, where we designed devices to control thermal radiative energy currents through time modulated photonic circuits.

Finally, I moved to Corrientes, Argentina at the end of 2020, where I got a position as an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Modelling and Innovation on Technology (IMIT-CONICET) and Northeastern National University.

My research interest lies in the interface between Condensed Matter, Quantum Mechanics, and Photonics. Specifically, I'm interested in the transport of wavelike excitations (electrons, photons, phonons, etc. ) in the micro and nanoscale in complex systems.