Startup School is opening my eyes!

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:November 25, 2020

The first time I was involved in co-founding a company called Solar Semiconductors Morelos (SEMOR) was when I worked in CEMIE-Sol. The objective was to create innovative products based on scientific background and their commercialization. This experience was revealing because all my background was in science and academia; therefore, I was forced to immerse in the innovation community. Now, the Y Combinator Startup school is opening my eyes because I can see some of the mistakes we made at that time. One of the most important was we were creating products from inside to outside which means we did not…

How to Create a Graphical Abstract for your Science Manuscript?

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:November 20, 2020

Long time no see, but I have been drafting two manuscripts during the Covid-19 lockdown. The first one is about my 2020 postdoctoral project at the Physics Institute of BUAP (IFUAP), and the other one comes as a collaboration with my last research group at IER-UNAM. Both works are related to the synthesis of new materials for energy conversion, solar cell development, and numerical simulation using SCAPS-1D. At this stage, the writing process and discussion with my coworkers have almost come to an end. However, one of the requirements to submit the manuscript to the journal is to include a…

¿Cómo publicar en revistas de alto impacto? Meeting review

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:June 18, 2020

Uno de los problemas a los cuales nos enfrentamos los jóvenes investigadores es al rechazo de los manuscritos que realizamos durante nuestra formación profesional. En gran parte debido a la falta de experiencia sobre publicación, y por otra parte debido al dominio del idioma inglés. De acuerdo a los participantes del taller "How to publish your work in high impact journals" en un inicio los trabajos ingresados por investigadores a revistas de alto impacto serán rechazados. Esto me hace pensar que existe una ruta que todo científico debe afrontar para generar experiencia en publicación científica. Sin embargo, los ponentes concuerdan…