CV – Andrés Santos – Grupo de Física Estadística de la UEx

Andrés Santos

Curriculum vitae and list of publications

Personal Education Professional Awards Books Preprints Papers Outreach Miscellanea

Personal record

Name: Andrés Santos

Place and date of birth: Almería (Spain); May 6, 1956

Present position: Full Professor of Theoretical Physics

Address: Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06071 Badajoz (Spain)

Phone number: +34-924-289540

Fax number: +34-924-289651

E-mail : andres[at]unex.es

UNESCO codes of specialization fields: 2205.10, 2204.04, 2213.05, 2213.11

Education

Ph.D. (Physics), University of Seville (Spain), 1983 BS., MS. (Physics), University of Seville (Spain), 1978, 1979

Professional record

Full Professor, Universidad de Extremadura, 1989-present

Assistant Professor, University of Seville, 1985-1989

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida, 1984-1985

Teaching Assistant, University of Seville, 1982-1984

Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Seville, 1979-1982

Visiting Scientist,

Modeling and Simulation of Complex Molecular Systems, University of Pannonia, Spring 2025
Modeling and Simulation of Complex Molecular Systems, University of Pannonia, Spring 2024
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Spring 2019
Istituto per i processi chimico-fisici (IPCF), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Winter 2017
Department of Physics, Federal University of Paraná, Summer 2013
Instituto de Energías Renovables, Autonomous National University of Mexico, Winter 2011
Department of Chemical Engineering, Keimyung University, Winter 2010
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Università C’a Foscari Venezia, Spring 2009
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Università C’a Foscari Venezia, Spring 2007
Instituto de Energías Renovables, Autonomous National University of Mexico, Winter 2007
Department of Physics, University of Florida, Summer 2005
Department of Physical Chemistry, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Summer 2003
Department of Physics, University of Florida, 2000-2001
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Spring 1999
Department of Physics, University of Florida, Spring 1996
Department of Physics, University of Florida, Summer 1995
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, Spring 1992
Instituto de Energías Renovables, Autonomous National University of Mexico, Spring 1991
Department of Physics, University of Florida, Summer 1986

Awards

IOP trusted reviewer status, IOP Publishing.

Excellence Prize to Teaching Trajectory (2020), University of Extremadura.

Member (since June, 2019) of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti – Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali.

Member (July 2018-February 2023) of the Editorial Board of the magazine Revista Española de Física.

Member (since June 06, 2018) of the Editorial Board of the journal Entropy.

Corresponding member (since April 27, 2017) of the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Messina (Italy). [News coverage]

Excellence Prize to Research Trajectory (2015), University of Extremadura.

Included in the Board of Honor of the International Symposia on Rarefied Gas Dynamics.

Invited speaker in the 5th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics, 22-29 June 2013, Kazimierz Dolny (Poland).

Keynote Address in the DSMC09 Conference (Santa Fe, NM, USA, 13-16 September 2009).

Included in the list of APS Outstanding Referees (2009).

Teaching Excellence distinction (2008), University of Extremadura.

Quality Research Prize (shared with Vicente Garzó) for the book Kinetic Theory of Gases in Shear Flows. Nonlinear Transport (Springer Science & Business Media, 2003), University of Extremadura, 2004.

Excellence Prize to Ph.D. Thesis, University of Seville, 1983.

Excellence Prize to Master’s degree, University of Seville, 1979.

Books

Andrés Santos, A Concise Course on the Theory of Classical Liquids. Basics and Selected Topics , Lecture Notes in Physics , Vol. 923 (Springer, 2016). [News coverage 1] [News coverage 2]
Michel Mareschal and Andrés Santos (eds.), 28th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics 2012 (AIP Conf. Proc. 1501, Melville, NY, 2012).
Vicente Garzó and Andrés Santos, Kinetic Theory of Gases in Shear Flows. Nonlinear Transport (Springer Science & Business Media, 2003).

Preprints

A. Santos, The Mpemba effect in the Descartes protocol: A time-delayed Newton’s law of cooling approach [arXiv:2602.03790].
A. M. Montero, P. Gurin, S. Varga, and A. Santos, Orientational ordering and correlations in a quasi-one-dimensional hard-dumbbell fluid [arXiv:2601.15834].
A. Santos and M. López de Haro, Predicting random close packing of binary hard-disk mixtures via third-virial-based parameters [arXiv:2512.23613].
A. M. Montero and A. Santos, Algebraic to exponential decay of spatial correlations in one-dimensional and confined hard-core fluids: A Laplace-pole analysis [arXiv:2511.08013].

Published papers

Hirsch index: h=37

ArXiv author identifier: http://arxiv.org/a/santos_a_1

ResearcherID profile (Web of Science): http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5356-2008

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-5180

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