Outreach
A short list of articles in different media:
2025/08 "Física consolida investigación fundamental y traza plan para crecer con mirada global", Interview for UNTEC on departmental strategic planning and international collaboration.
2025/07 Santiago School of Physics 2025: International winter school bringing together students from across Latin America.
2024/06 Featured in "10 Years of Supporting the Advancement of Physicists Worldwide", Simons Foundation article highlighting the impact of the ICTP Simons Associates Program.
2024/06 "Luis Foa Torres es elegido como nuevo Director del Departamento de Física", Announcement of election as Director of Physics Department, FCFM.
2024/04 "20 académicos/as de la FCFM están entre los más citados del mundo", Recognition among Stanford's Top 2% Most Cited Scientists worldwide.
2024/01 ICTP Associates Video Series: Featured in "Science is Our Common Language" video series for ICTP's 60th anniversary (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3H0SlYMBgY).
2023/03 Co-organized "International Conference on Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems" with ICTP (Trieste) and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, bringing together ~100 researchers from multiple continents.
2021/11 "A valley of Opportunities", Feature article for Physics World.
2020/11 "Digging into the 3D Quantum Hall Effect", Viewpoint for APS' Physics.
2019/10 "A sudden twist", News & Views for Nature Physics.
2019/11 Interview for Radio Pauta on quantum computing and the news on quantum supremacy
2016/09 Article for Fifteen Eightyfour, the blog of Cambridge University Press.
2012/09 “Lo más importante en ciencia son las preguntas”, entrevista para La Voz del Interior (Argentina).
2012/05 Extense tv interview prepared by UNC (Argentina): available on VIMEO part 1, part 2, part 3.
2011/10 “Grafeno: tan lejos, tan cerca” / “Graphene: Faraway, so close!” , mini-clip featuring the micromechanical cleavage technique for producing graphene and Raman characterization performed at UNC. Miniclip que muestra la técnica de exfoliación micromecánica del grafeno y su caracterización Raman.
2011/08 “Cover Story: No optical illusion”, William Leventon for MICROmanufacturing Magazine, July/August 2011 issue, page 28. [pdf]
2011/07 “Time-dependent fields for a new breed of carbon-based nanodevices”, invited article for Nanotechnology thought-leaders series at Azonano.com.
2011/07 “Lasers could produce much sought after band gaps in graphene”, Lisa Zyga for PhysOrg (science news).
2011/06 “Graphene may gain on-off switch”, American Institute of Physics Press Release (Eureka).
2010/12 “Sobre la pista del grafeno en Argentina: efecto electromecánicos en la nanoescala”, ciencianet.com.ar (portal de divulgación).
2010/10 “El grafeno, sus secretos, y la investigacion en Córdoba”, Foa Torres para La Voz del Interior (newspaper).
2010/06 “Lo que viene: el laser sonoro”, Principia, revista de divulgacion de FAMAF, Marzo de 2010.
Glad to share our @PhysicsWorld feature, written with @foatorres, where we discuss a series of tantalizing works on the non-local electrical response of graphene. Check it out here: https://t.co/cirPBSznac pic.twitter.com/TMyDBCf1Um
— Sergio O. Valenzuela (@S_O_Valenzuela) November 3, 2021
In spite of everything, we keep going. Final presentations of our minicourse "From graphene to topological insulators". The lectures (in Spanish) are now available in youtube https://t.co/U5yPo0z4Kh pic.twitter.com/quwo4fhyLe
— Luis E F Foà Torres (@foatorres) May 30, 2020
Closing the summer internships at @DFI_UChile @dfc_uchile pic.twitter.com/DQd9L9ibJ4
— Luis E F Foà Torres (@foatorres) January 29, 2019
The 9th International Conference on Low-Dimensional Structures and Devices (LDSD 2019) is coming to the end. Thanks to everyone who came to share their thoughts down to Patagonia!
— Luis E F Foà Torres (@foatorres) December 6, 2019
Don't miss our conference video:https://t.co/HHLVXkWGAH
The virtual talk of today is available here: Surprises in the search of topological states in non-hermitian systems - non-Hermitian skin effect https://t.co/z5mmThHkdQ
— Luis E F Foà Torres (@foatorres) June 19, 2020
Have just read that Prof. Helmut Schwarz is retiring from @AvHStiftung . As a farewell I wanted to share a funny snap that I took back in 2008 at the yearly Humboldt meeting in Bellevue #fleetingmoment, look at President Horst Köhler in the back. pic.twitter.com/yX9KpWvdHq
— Luis E F Foà Torres (@foatorres) December 20, 2017
It's been an exhilarating week, thanks once more ICTP, thanks to all the people that make this place feel like home @ictpnews https://t.co/oeaR9eZcDu
— Luis E F Foà Torres (@foatorres) January 13, 2019