Manuel G. Velarde#
| Membership Number: | 1492 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucm.es/ip-1/fluidos |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Emeritus Professor /Honorary Professor, Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Compluense Madrid
- 2002 - 2004 Rector CISM (International Center for Mechanical Sciences Udine, Italy) - dual appointment
- 1993 - 2011 Professor of Physics, Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 1979 - 1993 Professor, U.N.E.D. - Spanish Open University
- 1976 - 1980 Invited Professor, Universite de Provence (Aix-Marseille I) (France)(A.T.P. Internationale C.N.R.S.) - over a five-year period - dual appointment
- 1971 - 1980 Associate Professor and (Full) Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- 1969 - 1971 Faculty Associate, Univ. Texas at Austin (USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics
- Thermodynamics
- Stat physics
- Hydrodynamics
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Instabilities
- Interfacial dynamics
- Waves, Solitons
- Nonlinear Patterns and defects
- Nonlinear lattice dynamics, Soliton-assisted electron transport (Solectron transport)
- Film flows, Wetting and Spreading Dynamics
- Surface tension-driven phenomena
- Neuro-dynamics modeling for robots
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Physics Prize, Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Dr. Honoris Causa, University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I)
- 1994 Palmes Académiques, Republique Française
- 1996 RAMMAL Medal (Societe Française de Physique & Fondation Ecole Normale Superieure)
- 2002 Fetstchrift (60th birthday) International Journal of Bifurcation & Chaos, Special issue vol. 12, 23015-2653("Spatio-temporal Complexity") Editor: G. Nicolis, World Scientific.
- 2003 DuPont Science Prize
- 2006 Physics Medal, Spanish Royal Physical Society
- 2010 Dr. Honoris Causa, Chernichevsky Saratov University, Russia
- 2013 Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite Award, Republique Française
- 2013 Fetstchrift (70th birthday) "Without Bounds: A Scientific Canvas of Nonlinearity and Complex Dynamics", Editors: R. G. Rubio, Yu. S. Ryazantsev, V. M. Starov, G.-X. Huang, A. P. Chetverikov, P. Arena, A. A. Nepomyahschy, A. Ferrús, E. G. Morozov, Springer-Verlag, 801 pp.
- 2013 Fetstchrift (70th birthday)Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Special issue, vol 206, Editors R. Miller, R. G. Rubio and V. M. Starov, Elsevier, 436 pp.
- 2014 Member of European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
- 2015 Blaise Pascal Medal for Physics, European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
- 2019 Dr. Honoris Causa, University of Almeria
