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Opinion columns in radio Cooperativa
Víctor Muñoz holds a PhD in Physics, is an academic in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, and is a scientific disseminator. Since December 2022, he has been a regular columnist on Radio Cooperativa, a medium where he writes about physics, science, and everyday life.
Muñoz is an expert in Plasma Physics and Complex Systems and participates in the research group named Planets. There, jointly with a team of scientists from the DFC, investigates the physical and social systems to understand how complexity manifests itself in different problems, such as the evolution of the interplanetary environment, solar activity, and terrestrial seismicity, as well as the human interactions such as economic exchange or social networks.
As a scientific disseminator, he created “Ondas de Blog.” A website in which he wrote about physics in everyday life, and the podcast “Con la suma de todas las fuerzas” in cooperation with the academic Leslie Jiménez.
Animated capsule
Francisca Guzmán Lastra holds a PhD in Fluid Dynamics from the Universidad de Chile, is an academic in the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of this house of studies, and is also the lead researcher of the Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter.
In this center of excellence -where she leads the research line “Swimmers under confinement and active colloids“- participated in the production of the animated capsule “Active Carpets” explaining part of her work in less than two minutes.
Physics Podcast
“Physics Podcasts” is a program created by Rodrigo Soto, academic DFI-FCFM of the Universidad de Chile, where he interviews other scientists on various topics in the area.
In the last season, named “Nobel Prizes,” he interviewed Miguel Kiwi, an academic from the Department of Physics (DFC) of the Universidad de Chile and winner of the National Prize for Exact Sciences in 2007, about the Nobel Prize awarded to John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer granted by the theory that explains superconductivity, a state where matter completely loses electrical resistance.
