Alfred Uren
Director @Instituto De Ciencias Nucleares - Unam
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WORK HISTORY
Director @Instituto De Ciencias Nucleares - Unam
Mexico City, MX
EDUCATION
University of Rochester
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
SKILLS
ABOUT ALFRED UREN
Dr. Alfred U’Ren received his B.Sc. in physics from Unversidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico city) in 1997 and his Ph.D. in optics from the University of Rochester in 2004. He was research scientist at Centro de Investigación Científica y Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE in Ensenada, Mexico) from 2004 to 2008. He was appointed professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico city in 2008, where he is currently a tenured full professor and department head at one of five departments at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares. He is a member at the highest level of the National System of Researchers (Mexico), Senior Member of the Optical Society of America, and he received the Research Prize from the Mexican Academy of Sciences (awarded yearly to the most distinguished scientist under the age of 40). He is a past president of the Quantum Information Division of the Mexican Physical Society, was General co-chair of the OSA Frontiers in Optics 2014 conference organized in Tucson, AZ, and is currently topical editor for Journal of the Optical Society of America B. He leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares; his research areas have focused on the design, implementation, and application of photon pair sources based on spontaneous parametric processes. He has authored >90 articles in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and book chapters.
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