Manuel G. Velarde
Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense, 28040-Madrid, Spain
Physics | L27
Manuel G. VELARDE [born in Almeria, Spain (Sept. 14-9-41)]. Emeritus Prof. (Instituto Pluridisciplinar, U. Complutense Madrid) and STEAM Honorific Prof. (U. Europea Madrid). Doctor Physics (UCM-1968, UL Brussels-1970); Doctor “Honoris Causa” (Aix-Marseille-Provence-1994, Saratov-2010, Almeria-2019).
Research: Hydrodynamic instabilities in a diversity of fluids and fluid configurations; interfacial phenomena (self-propulsion of drops, wetting and spreading dynamics, patterns, waves, solitons); internal waves in straits, ocean and atmosphere; reaction-diffusion and lattice dynamics systems (patterns, waves, solitons & chaos, and synchronization processes); laser dynamics (Q-switch laser model with saturable absorber); cerebellar dynamics models; legs and brain models and dynamic GPS for (hexapod and/or roving) robots; soliton-assisted, ballistic, electron transport (electron surfing) theory for anharmonic crystals; field effect transistor invented (SFET, UK Patent GB 2533105, 2020) etc. Most results gathered in six coauthored research frontier monographs [Wiley-VCH, Springer (2), CRC-Taylor & Francis (2), Chapman & Hall].
Service to the profession: Committee “Liquids” (EPS,1982-94); IUPAP Commission C3 “Statistical Physics” (1987-93); NATO Panel “Chaos, Order and Patterns: Aspects of Nonlinearity” (1990-93); ESA Microgravity Advisory Committee (1994-97); European Low Gravity Research Association (President, 1997-99); International Center for Mechanical Sciences-CISM (Rector, Udine, 2002-4); European Science Foundation-Space Science Committee (ESF-ESSC, 2006-2009); LABEX Jury (President, France, 2010-11), etc.
Membership: Academia Europaea; EURASC.
Medals: Rammal-SFP (France, 1996); Dupont Prize (Spain, 2003); Ordre N. Merite (France, 2013); Blaise Pascal-EURASC (2015); etc.
Festschrifts: (60th birthday) Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos 12 (2002) 2305-2653; (70th birthday) Book “Without Bounds: A Scientific Canvas of Nonlinearity and Complex Dynamics” (Springer, 801 pp, 2013), and Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 206 (2014) 1-454.