Essays, interviews, talks, and schools — physics in two languages, from Córdoba’s newspapers to Nature Physics.
Writing for the community
2021/11 “A valley of opportunities”, feature article for Physics World. [pdf]
2020/11 “Digging into the 3D Quantum Hall Effect”, Viewpoint for APS’ Physics. [pdf]
2019/10 “A sudden twist”, News & Views for Nature Physics. [pdf]
2016/09 Article for Fifteen Eightyfour, the blog of Cambridge University Press.
2011/07 “Time-dependent fields for a new breed of carbon-based nanodevices”, invited article for Nanotechnology thought-leaders series at Azonano.com.
2010/10 ES “El grafeno, sus secretos, y la investigacion en Córdoba”, Foa Torres para La Voz del Interior (newspaper).
2010/06 ES “Lo que viene: el laser sonoro”, Principia, revista de divulgación de FAMAF, Marzo de 2010.
In the media
2025/08 ES “Física consolida investigación fundamental y traza plan para crecer con mirada global”, Interview for UNTEC on departmental strategic planning and international collaboration.
2024/08 “Meet an Associate — Luis Foà Torres”, interview for ICTP’s Global Science Portal.
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 — and on the cover of the partnership’s anniversary report, “A Decade of Empowering Minds”.
2024/06 ES “Luis Foa Torres es elegido como nuevo Director del Departamento de Física”, Announcement of election as Director of Physics Department, FCFM.
2024/04 ES “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.
2019/11 ES Interview for Radio Pauta on quantum computing and the news on quantum supremacy. [pdf]
2018/05 ES Interview for the magazine América Economía on the future of quantum computing and quantum information (Looking for quantum supremacy). [pdf]
2012/09 ES “Lo más importante en ciencia son las preguntas”, entrevista para La Voz del Interior (Argentina).
2012/05 ES Científicos Repatriados, extended TV interview produced by UNC (Argentina): on Vimeo in part 1, part 2, and part 3.
2011/10 EN·ES “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.
2011/08 “Cover Story: No optical illusion”, William Leventon for MICROmanufacturing Magazine, July/August 2011 issue, page 28.
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 ES “Sobre la pista del grafeno en Argentina: efecto electromecánicos en la nanoescala”, ciencianet.com.ar (portal de divulgación).
Building community
2026 Member of the organizing committee of SLAFES 2026, the Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics (Chile).
2025/07 Santiago School of Physics 2025: International winter school bringing together students from across Latin America.
2025/04 Co-organized QS 2025 — Conference on Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems and Beyond at FCFM, Santiago (March 31 – April 4), with Igor Gornyi (KIT) and Alessandro Principi (Manchester): 33 invited talks spanning electron hydrodynamics, light–matter interaction, topological and non-Hermitian systems, supported by the European Hydrotronics project together with FCFM, KIT, and ICTP — followed by a month-long extended workshop with 22 participants staying on.
2024/10 Member of the organizing committee of SLAFES XXV, the Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics — Universidad del Atlántico, Puerto Colombia (October 23–26, 2024).
2023/03 Co-organized the “Conference and Advanced School on Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems” with ICTP (Trieste) and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María — two weeks in Santiago (March 13–24, 2023), bringing together ~100 researchers from multiple continents.
2023–present Peer Review Ambassador for IOP Publishing, leading peer-review excellence workshops for researchers worldwide.
2013–2015 ES Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Meeting on Surfaces and Nanostructured Materials”; organizer of the 2012 edition.
2010–2011 ES Coordinator of the Condensed Matter Division of the Argentine Physical Society, elected by the vote of its members.
Talks & courses on video
A selection — more on the YouTube channel.
