Academic Group

Dr. Salomón de Jesús Alas Guardado graduated in 1999 from the National Polytechnic Institute as an Industrial Chemical Engineer. His doctorate was in the area of Surface Physicochemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the UAM, Iztapalapa Campus, graduating in 2006 as Doctor of Science (Chemistry). In 2007 and 2008 he made two postdoctoral stays at the Faculty of Chemistry, UNAM. In 2009 he made his third postdoctoral stay at the Department of Natural Sciences of the Cuajimalpa Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. In 2010 he started working as a Visiting Professor in the same department and since 2013 he has the permanent position of Full Professor. Since 2008 he belongs to the National System of Researchers with Level I and has a Desirable Profile PRODEP since 2011.

The research lines he studies are:

a) Thermal stability of proteins by means of the molecular dynamics method.
b) Protein folding phenomena using genetic algorithms and the Monte Carlo method.
c) Polydispersity through the dissipative particle dynamics method.
d) Reaction mechanisms on surfaces using the dynamic Monte Carlo method.
e) Non-linear phenomena such as the formation of spatio-temporal patterns in chemical reactions.
f) Fractal geometry of porous media and chemical reactions.

He has extensive teaching experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including courses in General Chemistry, General Physics, Thermodynamics, Mathematics Workshop, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Statistics, Scientific Computing, Protein Physicochemistry and Statistical Mechanics. In addition, he has an extensive participation in university management, where he is the Coordinator of the Molecular Biology Degree, member of the Basic Sciences Review Committee and Representative of the Academic Staff of the DCN in the Divisional Council of CNI. Finally, he has participated in the organization of local and national events.