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Professor Pedro Díaz Leyva received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Faculty of Physics, Universidad Veracruzana, and his Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. Postdoctoral stay one, Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2004 - 2005. Postdoctoral stay two, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany, 2005 - 2009. He has been a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus since 2009.

His research interests include experimental physics applied to the study of soft condensed matter and systems of biological and industrial interest (food, petroleum, paints and ceramic materials), the study of the dynamic behavior (translational and rotational diffusion) and structural properties of dilute and concentrated colloidal suspensions (crystals, gels and colloidal glasses), gels and colloidal glasses), solutions and suspensions of proteins and other compounds of biological and industrial interest, mechanical bulk rheology and optical micro-rheology for the characterization of mechanical properties in non-cross-linked polymeric solutions, cross-linked polymeric gels, concentrated colloidal suspensions, biological materials (such as solutions and cross-linked networks of biological polymers) and materials of industrial origin, the Study of colloidal self-assembly phenomena of structures made with amphiphilic "Janus" particles and with non-spherical particles, the study of the dynamic behavior of colloidal particles active in different media, the synthesis and characterization of colloidal systems of different materials and with desirable properties, the development of new optical characterization methods for the study of the mentioned systems such as Light Scattering and Video-Optical Microscopy.