Victor Martinez-Luaces

University of Granada Spain

Prof. Dr. Victor MARTINEZ-LUACES Prof. Victor Martinez-Luaces has three degrees from the State University of Uruguay (UdelaR). The first degree is in Chemistry, the second one is in Chemical Engineering, and the third is in Mathematics. Later, he obtained a Master's Degree in Didactics of Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Education, both at the University of Granada (UGR, Spain). He has worked for 25 years in four separate faculties within UdelaR (Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, and Sciences). He held the position of Head of the Mathematics Department in the Chemistry Faculty between 1996 and 2002. During 2006 and 2007, he moved to Argentina, where he worked at the CIEP (Education & Research Institute) returning to Uruguay in 2008. Since 2009 he has been working as a mathematical and engineering consultant at the Julio Ricaldoni Foundation, involved in research and industrial projects of the Faculty of Engineering, at UdelaR and two projects (ProfeSTEM and ProfeSTEAM) at UGR, Spain. He was invited researcher at LDAR, University of Paris Diderot (Paris VII) in 2016. He published his first book chapter in 1982 in Uruguay and his first research paper in 1988, in the Journal of Chemical Education (U.S.A.). Since then, his papers have been published worldwide in the fields of Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Education in journals, proceedings, and books. He has twenty-two books/book chapters published in the U.S.A., Europe, Argentina, Singapore, and Uruguay. He has been awarded several prizes: • Journal of Chemical Education – Ethyl Corporation (1988). • Best teacher award (Faculty of Engineering, 1992). • Best teacher award (Faculty of Engineering, 1996). • 2nd prize RELME 13 (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1999) • 2nd prize RELME 14 (Panama, 2000) • 2nd prize RELME 15 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001) • 1st prize RELME 16 (La Habana, Cuba, 2002) • 1st prize RELME 19 (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2005) • Distinguished visitor of the first city in the Americas (Santo Domingo, 1999) He served twice as Editor of Nova Science Publishers, NY (USA), one book about chemical kinetics and the other in Laplace transform. He organized Delta ’07 in Calafate (Argentina) and he was co-chair of TSG 13 at ICME XII in Seoul (South Korea), and TSG 16 at ICME XIII in Hamburg (Germany). He is a reviewer for several journals such as ZDM, IJRUME, iJMEST, ALME (Mexico), Union (Spain), and Numeros (Spain), among others. He is part of the Editorial Board for journals like Advanced Mathematical Models & Applications, IJRUME, and Global Education Review. He has worked as a consultant for the following companies: Gautier, Roemmers, Haymann, Bader, Zenda, Skaphia, and Uruguayan state institutions: OSE (Water Supply Systems), UTE (Electricity Transmission and Distribution) and IMM (Municipality of Montevideo). His main areas of interest are: • Mathematical modeling • Inverse problems • Applied Mathematics in Chemistry, Environmental problems and Engineering • Maths problems in Electrochemistry and corrosion • Chemical Kinetics • Electrochemistry • Environmental problems • Corrosion

Victor Martinez-Luaces

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