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Dr. Felipe Aparicio studied chemistry at the Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in 1998. He carried out his doctoral work in the field of theoretical physical-cheistry at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and received his Ph.D. in 2004. He then moved to the Physics Department at Université de Bourgogne (France), where he was employed as a posdoctoral research from 2005 to 2006. Since 2007, he is a Full Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa Campus.

Since the beginning of his career, Felipe Aparicio has been working on fundamental aspects of the chemical and physical properties of molecules and biomolecules. Current research activities include: 1) studies of coherence and quantum entanglement in photosynthetic complexes (quantum biology); 2) studies of the electronic structure and chemical reactivity of molecules and biomolecules; 3) studies of the electronic and reactivity properties of ion channels; 4) theoretical studies of the dynamic properties of biomolecules; 5) theoretical studies of the structure-function-evolution relationships of biomolecules; 6) studies of the electronic properties and chemical reactivity of molecules and biomolecules using artificial intelligence techniques. These are studies that combine quantum mechanics, ab initio calculations of the electron structure and molecular dynamics with methods from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. His research work has been published in the J. Phys. Chem., Int. J. Quantum Chem., and Reviews in Modern Quantum Chemistry, among others.

He was licensed as a Maître de Conferences (Lecturer) by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in France; certification obtained in sections 31 (Theoretical, Physical and Analytical Chemistry) and 39 (Physical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies).

Felipe Aparicio was founder of the Department of Natural Sciences of the UAM, Cuajimalpa Campus. He participated in the creation and implementation of the Molecular Biology (BM) bachelor degree, and the Postgraduate Program in Natural Sciences and Engineering (PCNI) of the same academic campus of UAM. He has taught more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, has directed social service projects and terminal projects at the BM, and has supervised postgraduate theses at the PCNI.