Python for material Science

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:July 3, 2022

Last year I did not get the extension (2nd year) for the Postdoctoral fellowship (SEP-PRODEP) at the Physic Institue of BUAP. In other words, I was unemployed. Then I found a way to help in my family business by selling Jicama Seeds; this adventure let me lunch a website called jicameros.com, and do every 15 days FB adds to sell the seeds in my country (Mexico). With my new digital skills, I experience in first person that the most valuable resource we can have today is data. Data help me to make very important decisions to take advantage of my limited…

Modern LaTeX CV

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:May 29, 2022

Today I want to share my new curriculum vitae (CV) for pursuing an academic position in Mexico. If you are a new subscriber of my blog, you should know I am doing a second postdoctoral project at ICUAP-BUAP. The postdoc is a project to get professional experience for a scientific career. However, the small letters of a postdoc life say, "You have no permanent position yet," then you should constantly look for a job. That's why I am here to share my LaTex template with you. The original modern LaTex CV The open software culture encourages you to share your…

Postdoc at the BUAP Science Institute

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:December 27, 2021

Last November 24th was the first day I got into the BUAP Science Institute (ICUAP). Then, we took photographs in front of the Research Semiconductor Devices building to remember this moment. In the main picture of this post, you can observe Dr. Roman Romano, who is the principal researcher (PI), and me. My postdoctoral project is scheduled from October 2021 to September 2022. Now, I am building thin-film solar cell prototypes made of antimony chalcogenide as the main absorber layer. This project is funded by the Conacyt postdoctoral fellowship to impulse the Mexican PhDs in their early days of an…