Alfredo Bello is an Experimental and Computational Physicist, specializing in Solid State and Polymer Physics. He graduated with honors at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela obtaining the "Licenciatura en Física" degree. Then he went on to obtain an MSc and a PhD in Physics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
He returned to Venezuela and joined the research group of Physics of Crystalline and Amorphous Materials at USB, where he worked with several experimental techniques (X-Ray Crystallography, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Thermally Stimulated Depolarization Currents, Dielectric Constant Spectrography, etc.) in Ionic Crystals and Polymer materials. Besides the experimental setups, he also did most of the data analysis using modern computational techniques, such as Fitting experimental data to complex mathematical models using Monte Carlo Simulated Annealing approach. All this work resulted in more than 60 research papers published in peer reviewed, indexed and high impact factor international journals and more than 160 presentations and assistances to international conferences.
And of course, he also taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels from Basic Physics courses for 1st. and 2nd. year engineering and science students to advanced courses in Solid State Physics, Computational Physics, X-ray and Crystallography and Polymer Physics.
Academic Experience
- BioPhysics Professor, Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid, España, 2023-2025
- Full Professor, Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1084-2017
- Adjunct Professor of Physics, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela, 2016-2018
Academic Background
- Master Oficial de Profesorado, Universidad Francisco de Vittoria, Madrid, España, 2019
- Ph.D. in Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., 1984
- M.Sc. in Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., 1984
- Licenciatura en Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas Venezuela, 1978
