Short CV
Vladimir García Morales was born in 1978 in Valencia (Spain). He studied Physics at the University of Valencia where he received his M. Sc. grade in 2001. There, he was also awarded his doctoral degree in 2005 with a dissertation on Nanothermodynamics and ion transport properties of interfacial nanostructures (thesis advisors Prof. J. A. Manzanares and Prof. J. Pellicer). During these years he collaborated with chemists at the universities of Porto and Helsinki, and worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Valencia (“Statistical Physics” and “Fluid Mechanics”). After obtaining the ph.d. he was awarded a DAAD scholarship with which he initiated the collaboration with Prof. Krischer’s group at the physics department of the Technical University of Munich. Later he joined this group as a postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant where he worked on the establishment of general models of the dynamics of oscillatory electrochemical systems as well as of the stochastic dynamics of these systems on nanoelectrodes.
Selected Awards
- 2007, Prize of Extraordinary Achievements during the Doctorate (Awarded by the University of Valencia to the best Ph. D. theses in Physics)
- 2001, Prize of Extraordinary Achievements during the Graduation in Physics (Awarded by the University of Valencia to the best M.Sc. grades in Physics)
Research Interests
V. García-Morales’ research concentrates in the development of a theory of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics which should hierarchically encompass all physical scales ranging from the microscopic mechanical description to the macroscopic (thermodynamic) one, accounting for effects that come from self-organization and cooperativity at the nanoscale and on the hydrodynamic level. From the lowest level of description (provided by the Hamilton-Jacobi theory of classical mechanics) rigorous criteria will be given for the establishment of the most appropriate coarse-grained variables and the role of the interplay between different scales will also be investigated. Electrochemical systems offer an excellent arena to experimentally validate this theory: They exhibit a wide variety of dynamical behavior, whose deterministic dynamics can be understood through theories without free adjustable parameters, and there is the possibility from an experimental point of view to address different scales, since experiments can be carried both on nano- and macroelectrodes.
Selected Publications
- Miethe, Iljana; García-Morales, Vladimir; Krischer, Katharina: Irregular Subharmonic Cluster Patterns in an Autonomous Photoelectrochemical Oscillator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (19), 200.
- García-Morales, Vladimir; Krischer, Katharina: Normal-form approach to spatiotemporal pattern formation in globally coupled electrochemical systems. Physical Review E 78 (5), 2008.
- García-Morales, Vladimir; Hölzel, Robert W.; Krischer, Katharina: Coherent structures emerging from turbulence in the nonlocal complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Physical Review E 78 (2), 2008.
- García-Morales, Vladimir; Pellicer, Julio; Manzanares, José A.: Thermodynamics based on the principle of least abbreviated action: Entropy production in a network of coupled oscillators. Annals of Physics 323 (8), 2008, 1844-1858.
- García-Morales, Vladimir; Krischer, Katharina: Nonlocal Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation for Electrochemical Systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (5), 2008.
- Garcia-Morales, V.; Mafe, S.: Monolayer-protected metallic nanoparticles: limitations of the concentric-sphere capacitor model. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111, 2007, 7242.
- García-Morales, Vladimir; Pellicer, Julio: Microcanonical foundation of nonextensivity and generalized thermostatistics based on the fractality of the phase space. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 361 (1), 2006, 161-172.
- Chirea, Mariana; García-Morales, Vladimir; Manzanares, José A.; Pereira, Carlos; Gulaboski, Rubin; Silva, Fernando: Electrochemical Characterization of Polyelectrolyte/Gold Nanoparticle Multilayers Self-Assembled on Gold Electrodes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (46), 2005, 21808-21817.
Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow