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MIGUEL ANGEL RUBIO ALVAREZ - SUBDIRECTOR/A DPTO. FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL

MIGUEL ANGEL RUBIO ALVAREZ

SUBDIRECTOR/A DPTO. FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL

CATEDRÁTICO DE UNIVERSIDAD

FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS

mar@fisfun.uned.es

(+34) 91398-7129

Academic Information

PhD in Physical Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of the UNED (1985)

Academic positions held

Currently, I am Professor of ​​Applied Physics (since 1996) at the Department of Fundamental Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of UNED. Previously, I have served as Assistant Professor at the Architecture School of the Technical University of Madrid (1987) and at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNED (since 1988).

Research activity

I made long-term research stays at the C.E.A. (Saclay, France), Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (Florence, Italy) and Haverford College (Philadelphia, E.E.U.U.U.).

I have been Principal Investigator of 11 Research Projects funded by the Ministry of Education of the Community of Madrid, as well as the Researcher responsible for the UNED group in one European Mobility Network, an Integrated Action with France and a Consortium of Research Groups of the Community of Madrid, all of them obtained in competitive calls. In the framework of these projects I have supervised 7 Ph.D. Thesis, 4 of which have received the Doctorate Award from the Faculty of Sciences of the UNED.

Research topics addressed: intermittent regimes in deterministic chaos, interface motion in porous media, fractal structures in electrodeposition, and instrumentation design for bulk and interfacial rheological measurements. My present research is centered in interfacial rheology of Langmuir monolayers and thin fluid films. The results of this research work are collected in more than 60 publications in leading international peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 communications to congresses, having received more than 1,500 citations.

My research activity is developed at the LSC - Laboratorio de Sistemas Complejos (Complex Systems Laboratory) within the Research Group Grupo de investigación en Material blanda y Fluidos (Soft Matter and Fluids Group).
 

Research Lines

  • Interfacial Rheology of Langmuir Monolayers of Molecules with Biomedical Interest.
  • Drop microfluidics on superhydrophobic surfaces.
  • Microrheology and its Applications.
  • Structure and Properties of Magnetic Colloids.

Educational management experience

I have been Vice-Rector in charge of Teaching Staff (2009-2013) and First Vice-Rector (2010-2013) of the UNED. I have also been Director of the Department of Fundamental Physics (1998) and General Coordinator of the Interuniversity Doctorate Program with a Quality Mention "Complex Systems Physics" during (2004-2007). I have been a member of the Physics and Mathematics Conference of the ANEP (1996-1998) and elected member of the Governing Board of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (2002-2004).

Research

N.º of recognized sections of research activity

6

Publications

  • PUBLICATIONS AT CONFERENCES
    • E. Guzmán; J. Tajuelo; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio; F. Ortega; R.G. Rubio. Shear rheology of fluid interfaces: Closing the gap between macro- and micro-rheology. Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. 37, 33-48. 2018.
    • F. Martínez-Pedrero; J. Tajuelo; P. Sánchez-Puga; R. Chuliá-Jordán; F. Ortega; M.A. Rubio; R.G. Rubio. Linear shear rheology of aging B-casein films adsorbing a the air/water interface. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 511, 12-20. 2018.
    • P. Domínguez-García; M. Pancorbo; F. Ortega; M.A. Rubio. JColloids: Image analysis for video-microscopy studies of colloidal suspensions. Computer Physics Communications. 231, 243-244. 2018.
    • J. Tajuelo; M.A. Rubio; J.M. Pastor. Flow field based data processing for the oscillatind conical bob interfacial shear rheometer. Journal of Rheology. 62(1), 295-312. 2018.
    • J. Tajuelo; E. Guzmán; F. Ortega; R.G. Rubio; M.A. Rubio. Phase diagram of fatty acid Langmuir monolayers from rheological measurements. Langmuir. 33(17):4280-4290. 2017.
    • J. Tajuelo; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio. A magnetic rod interfacial shear rheometer driven by a mobila magnetic trap. Journal of Rheology. 60(6), 1095-1114. 2016.
    • J. Tajuelo; J.M. Pastor; F. Martínez-Pedrero; M. Vázquez; F. Ortega, R.G. Rubio; M.A. Rubio. Magnetic microwire probes for the magnetic rod interfacial stress rheometer. Langmuir. 31 - 4, pp. 1410 - 1420. 2015.
    • P. Domínguez-García; M.A. Rubio. Single and multi-particle passive microrheology of low-density fluids using sedimented microspheres. Applied Physics Letters. 102 - 7, pp. 074101 - 4. 2013.
    • L.J. Bonales; F. Martínez-Pedrero; M.A. Rubio; R. González Rubio; F. Ortega. Phase Behavior of Dense Colloidal Binary Monolayers. Langmuir. 28 - 48, pp. 16555 - 16566. American Chemical Society, 04/12/2012.
    • P. Domínguez-García; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio. Aggregation and disaggregation dynamics of sedimented and charged superparamagnetic micro-particles in water suspension. European Physical Journal E. 34 - 4, 04/2011.
    • A. Maestro; F. Ortega; R.G. Rubio; M.A. Rubio; J. Kraegel; R. Miller. Rheology of poly(methyl methacrylate) Langmuir monolayers: Percolation transition to a soft glasslike system. Journal of Chemical Physics. 134 - 10, 14/03/2011.
    • P. Domínguez García; M.A. Rubio. Three-dimensional morphology of field-induced chain-like aggregates of superparamagnetic microparticles. Colloids and Surfaces A- Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 358 - 1-3, pp. 21 - 27. 05/04/2010.
    • P. Domínguez García; M.A. Rubio. JChainsAnalyser: an ImageJ-based stand-alone application for the study of magneto-rheological fluids. Computer Physics Communications. 180 - 10, pp. 1956 - 1960. 05/10/2009.
    • P. Domínguez García; J.M. Pastor; S. Melle; M.A. Rubio. Electrostatic and hydrodynamics effects in a sedimented magnetorheological suspension. Physical Review E. 80 - 2, 05/08/2009.
    • P. Domínguez García; S. Melle; M.A. Rubio. Morphology of anisotropic chains in a magneto-rheological fluid during aggregation and disaggregation processes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 333 - 1, pp. 221 - 229. 01/05/2009.
    • J. Schneider; A. Egatz Gómez; S. Melle; S. Lindsay; P. Domínguez García; M.A. Rubio; M. Márquez; A.A. García. Motion of viscous drops on superhydrophobic surfaces due to magnetic gradients. Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 323 - 1-3, pp. 19 - 27. 20/06/2008.
    • P. Domínguez García; S. Melle; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio. Scaling in the aggregation dynamics of a magnetorheological fluid. Physical Review E. 76 - 5, 20/11/2007.
    • A. Egatz Gómez; J. Schneider; P. Aella; D. Yang; P. Domínguez García; S. Lindsay; S.T. Picraux; M.A. Rubio; S. Melle; M. Márquez; A. A. García. Silicon nanowire and polyethylene superhydrophobic surfaces for discrete magnetic microfluidics. Applied Surface Science. 254 - 1, pp. 330 - 334. 31/10/2007.
    • A.A. García; A. Egatz Gómez; S.A. Lindsay; P. Domínguez García; S. Melle; M. Márquez; M.A. Rubio; S.T. Picraux; D. Yang; P. Aella; M.A. Hayes; D. Gust; S. Loyprasert; T. Vázquez Alvarez; J. Wang. Magnetic movement of biological fluid droplets. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 311 - 1, pp. 238 - 243. 01/05/2007.
    • A. Egatz Gómez; S. Melle; A.A. García; S.A. Lindsay; M. Márquez; P. Domínguez García; M.A. Rubio; S.T. Picraux; J.L. Taraci; T. Clement; D. Yang; M.A. Hayes; D. Gust. Discrete magnetic microfluidics. Applied Physics Letters. 89 - 12, 034106, 18/09/2006.
    • A. Egatz Gómez; S. Melle; A.A. García; S.A. Lindsay; M. Márquez; P. Domínguez García; M.A. Rubio; S.T. Picraux; J.L. Taraci; T. Clement; D. Yang; M.A. Hayes; D. Gust. Discrete magnetic microfluidics. Applied Physics Letters. 89 - 3, 17/07/2006.
    • P. Domínguez García; S. Melle; O.G. Calderón; M.A. Rubio. Doublet dynamics of magnetizable particles under frequency modulated rotating fields. Colloids and Surfaces A- Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 270, pp. 270 - 276. 01/12/2005.
    • T. Martín; P. Español; M.A. Rubio. Mechanisms for dynamic crack branching in brittle elastic solids: Strain field kinematics and reflected surface waves. Physical Review E. 71 - 3, 01/03/2005.
    • S. Melle; O.G. Calderón; M.A. Rubio; G.G. Fuller. Microstructure evolution in magnetorheological suspensions governed by Mason number. Physical Review E. 68 - 4, 01/10/2003.
    • S. Melle; O.G. Calderón; M.A. Rubio; G.G. Fuller. Chain rotational dynamics in MR suspensions. International Journal of Modern Physics B. 16 - 17-18, pp. 2293 - 2299. 20/07/2002.
    • S. Melle; O.G. Calderón; G.G. Fuller; M.A. Rubio. Polarizable particle aggregation under rotating magnetic fields using scattering dichroism. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 247 - 1, pp. 200 - 209. 01/03/2002.
    • S. Melle; O.G. Calderón; M.A. Rubio; G.G. Fuller. Rotational dynamics in dipolar colloidal suspensions: video microscopy experiments and simulations results. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. 102 - 2, pp. 135 - 148. 15/02/2002.
    • S. Melle; M.A. Rubio; G.G. Fuller. Time scaling regimes in aggregation of magnetic dipolar particles: Scattering dichroism results. Physical Review Letters. 87 - 11, pp. art. no. - 115501. 10/09/2001.
    • S. Melle; M.A. Rubio; G.G. Fuller. Orientation dynamics of magnetorheological fluids subject to rotating external fields. International Journal of Modern Physics B. 15 - 6-7, pp. 758 - 766. 20/03/2001.
    • T. Martín; P Español; M.A. Rubio; I Zúñiga. Dynamic fracture in a discrete model of a brittle elastic solid. Physical Review E. 61 - 6, pp. 6120 - 6131. 20/06/2000.
    • J. Buceta; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio; F.J. de la Rubia. Finite resolution effects in the A.lysis of the scaling behavior of rough surfaces. Physical Review E. 61 - 5, pp. 6015 - 6018. 20/05/2000.
    • S. Melle; G.G. Fuller; M.A. Rubio. Structure and dynamics of magnetorheological fluids in rotating magnetic fields. Physical Review E. 61 - 4, pp. 4111 - 4117. 20/04/2000.
    • J. Galeano; P. Español; M.A. Rubio. Experimental and theoretical results of stress relaxations in a model of earthquake dynamics. Europhysics Letters. 49 - 4, pp. 410 - 416. 20/02/2000.
    • J. Buceta; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio; F.J. de la Rubia. Small scale properties of the stochastic stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Physica D. 113 - 2-4, pp. 166 - 171. 01/03/1998.
    • J. Buceta; J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio; F.J. de la Rubia. The stochastic stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation: a model for compact electrodeposition growth. Physics Letters A. 235 - 5, pp. 464 - 468. 17/11/1997.
    • P. Español; I. Zúñiga; M.A. Rubio. Effect of boundary conditions in mode I fracture in brittle materials. Physica D. 96 - 1-4, pp. 375 - 383. 15/09/1996.
    • J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio. Instabilities in the growth of compact electrodeposits. PHYSICA D. 96 - 1-4, pp. 384 - 395. 15/09/1996.
    • J.M. Pastor; M.A. Rubio. Rough growth and morphological instability of compact electrodeposits. Physical Review Letters. 76 - 11, pp. 1848 - 1851. 11/03/1996.
    • I. Echeverría; M.A. Rubio. High-precision magnetic-levitation device with electro-optical feedback. Review of Scientific Instruments. 66 - 7, pp. 3931 - 3938. 11/07/1995.
    • P. Español; M.A. Rubio; I. Zúñiga. Scaling of the time-dependent selr-diffusion coefficient and the propagation of hydrodynamic interactions. Physical Review E. 51 - 1, pp. 803 - 806. 11/01/1995.
    • J. Galeano; M.A. Rubio. Experiments on earthquakes in a continuous elastic medium. Annales de Physique. 19 - 6, pp. 735 - 738. 11/12/1994.
    • M.A. Rubio; J. Galeano. Stick-slip dynamics in the relaxation of stresses in a continuous elastic medium. Physical Review E. 50 - 2, pp. 1000 - 1004. 11/08/1994.
    • J.C. Antoranz; M.A. Rubio; J. Duarte; D. Fernández-Caleya; M.M Desco; M. Cano; P. García-Barreno; J.M. Alvarez-Valdivielso; J.F. del Cañizo. Improvement of the hydrodynamic response of a ventricular assist device - A false aurcle solution. Artificial Organs. 16 - 3, pp. 301 - 305. 11/06/1992.
    • L. Conde; M.A. Rubio; V. Fairén; E. Riande. Oscillatory measurement of linear viscoelasticity - Dynamic moduli revisited. Journal of Polymer Science Part B-Polymer Physics. 29 - 12, pp. 1525 - 1531. 11/11/1991.
    • L. Conde; E. Riande; M.A. Rubio; V. Fairén. Nonlinear effects in the vicinity of the resonant frequency of viscoelastic measurement devices. Journal of Non-Cristalline solids. 131, pp. 883 - 886. 11/06/1991.
    • J. Duarte; D. Fernández-Caleya; J.M. Alvarez-Valdivielso; C. Romero; M.M Desco; M. Cano; F. Rodríguez; M.A. Rubio; J.C. Antoranz; J.F. del Cañizo. First clinical implantation of the BCM 3.5 ventricular assist device (VAD). European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 5 - 1, pp. 46 - 50. 15/01/1991.
    • M.A. Rubio; B.J. Gluckman; A. Dougherty; J.P. Gollub. Streams with moving contact lines: Complex dynamis due to contact angle hysteresis. Physical Review A. 43 - 2, pp. 811 - 818. 15/01/1991.
    • M.A. Rubio; A. Dougherty; J.P. Gollub. Self-affine fractal interfaces from immiscible displacemente in porous media - Reply. Physical Review Letters. 65 - 11, pp. 1389 - 1389. 10/09/1990.
    • M.A. Rubio; P. Bigazzi; L. Albavetti; S. Ciliberto. Spatiotemporal regimes in Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a small rectangular cell. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 209, pp. 309 - 334. 10/12/1989.
    • M.A. Rubio; C.A. Edwards; A. Dougherty; J.P. Gollub. Self-affine fractal interfaces from immiscible displacement in porous media. Physical Review Letters. 63 - 16, pp. 1685 - 1688. 16/10/1989.
    • M.A. Rubio; M. de la Torre; J.C. Antoranz. Intermittencies and power-law low-frequency divergencies in a nonlinear oscillator. Physica D. 36 - 1-2, pp. 92 - 108. 16/06/1989.
    • M. Desco; M.J. Cano; J. Duarte; F. Rodríguez; D. Fernández-Caleya; J.M. Alvarez-Valdivielso; J.C. Antoranz; M.A. Rubio; P. García-Barreno; J.F. del Cañizo. Blood biochemistry values of sheep (Ovis-aries-ligeriensis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Physiology. 94 - 4, pp. 717 - 719. 16/03/1989.
    • J.C. Antoranz; M.A. Rubio; M. de la Torre. Soft transition between type-I and type-III intermittencies in a nonlinear map. Progress of Theoretical Physics. 81 - 3, pp. 544 - 548. 16/03/1989.
    • M.A. Rubio; L. Conde; E. Riande. High-precision temperature controller based on phase-locked loop circuits. Review of Scientific Instruments. 59 - 9, pp. 2041 - 2044. 16/09/1988.
    • J.C. Antoranz; M.A. Rubio. Hyperchaos in a simple model for a laser with a saturable absorber. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics. 5 - 5, pp. 1070 - 1073. 16/05/1988.
    • R Badii; G. Broggi; B. Derighetti; M. Ravani; S. Ciliberto; A. Politi; M.A. Rubio. Dimension increase in filtered chaotic signals. Physical Review Letters. 60 - 11, pp. 979 - 982. 14/03/1988.
    • S. Ciliberto; M.A. Rubio. Chaos and order in the temperature field of Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Physica Scripta. 36 - 6, pp. 920 - 926. 14/12/1987.
    • L. Conde; M.A. Rubio; E. Riande. Low-cost device for the precise measurements of dynamic moduli in the Weissenberg rheogoniometer. Journal of Rheology. 31 - 7, pp. 527 - 535. 14/10/1987.
    • S. Ciliberto; M.A. Rubio. Local oscillations, traveling waves and chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Physical Review Letters. 58 - 25, pp. 2652 - 2655. 22/06/1987.
    • F.T. Arecchi; S. Ciliberto; M.A. Rubio. Oscillations and chaos on the free-surface of a heated fluid. Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica D-Condensed Matter, Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics, Fluids, Plasmas, Biophysics. 3 - 4, pp. 793 - 802. 22/06/1984.
    • M. Dubois; M.A. Rubio; P. Bergé. Experimental evidence of intermittencies associated with a subharmonic bifurcation. Physical Review Letters. 51 - 16, pp. 1446 - 1449. 22/06/1983.
Otros

Other activities

Patents, intellectual property, knowledge transfer
  • Procedimiento de calibración para sondas magnéticas de reómetros interfaciales de cizalla por aguja magnética (Calibration procedure for magnetic probes of magnetic needle interfacial shear rheometers)
    • OEPM (Spanish Patent Office) reference: P201431106.
    • Applicants: UNED, UCM y UPM.
    • Authors: M.A. Rubio, J. Tajuelo, J.M. Pastor, F. Martínez-Pedrero, F. Ortega y R.G. Rubio.
    • Application filed: July 23rd, 2014.
    • OEPM Approved: May 26th, 2015.
    • PCT application reference: PCT/ES2015/070527, published with international ref. WO2016012644.
  • Reómetro interfacial de cizalla por aguja magnética y sistema y método de accionamiento del mismo (Magnetic needle Interfacial shear rheometer and system and method of actuation thereof).
    • OEPM (Spanish Patent Office) reference: P201531113.
    • Applicants: UNED.
    • Authors: M.A. Rubio, J. Tajuelo, J.M. Pastor.
    • Application filed: July 28th, 2015.
    • OEPM Approved: December 1st, 2017.
    • PCT application reference: PCT/ES2016/070541, published with international ref. WO2017017299.
  • Magnetic needle interfacial shear rheometer and system and method for actuating same (translation of the Spanish patent P20151113).
    • European Patent Office reference: 16829899.0.
    • European application filed: February 14th, 2018.
    • European Patent Office publication date: June, 6th, 2018. Reference: EP3330695.
 Others
  • M.A. Rubio. "Fluidos magneto-reológios: Microestructura y propiedades dinámicas" (Magnetorheological Fluids: Microstructure and Dynamical Properties). Invited Conference at the annual celebration of the Faculty of Sciences at UNED, November 14th, 2003.
  • M.A. Rubio; S. Melle; P. Domínguez-García. "Suspensiones coloidales que responden a campos externos" (Colloidal Suspensions Responsive to External Fields). Revista 100cias@uned, 7, 2004.
  • M.A. Rubio. "Semblanza de los Premios Nobel de Química de 2014", (Semblance of the 2014 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry). Revista 100cias, nº 7, pp. 84-88. 2014.