Gil Nonato Santos

Prof. Dr. Gil Nonato C. Santos is a Full Professor and former Vice Chancellor for DLSU Laguna Campus. He has an undergraduate and graduate degree in Physics at De La Salle University and University of the Philippines and a Doctorate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman National Institute of Physics. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Fukui doing nanocomposite materials and its terahertz applications, and a Visiting Professor in Osaka University Quantum Engineering Laboratory and Howard University\'s Atmospheric Science Research Laboratory. He is the Research Head of the Solid-State Physics Laboratory and Inanolab research facility, and has published local and international publications in Nanomaterials, Nano sensors and STEM for Basic Education. He has a patent work for growing nanomaterials called the horizontal vapor phase growth technique and Nanosensor applied patents for gas, oil, and rubber sensing. He is the Convenor of Philippine Association of Physics and Science Instructors and was awarded Most Outstanding Physics Educator in 2010 by the Philippine Physics Society. In 2012, he was a recipient of the Challenge Grant for establishing an Air Weather Observation System for De La Salle Philippines and Volunteer Schools called SIGWA (Students Involve in Geophysical Weather and Atmospheric studies) and an Angelo King Institute Grant for developing a nanosensor for detecting meat spoilage. He obtained research grants from CHED, DOST, and USAID such as developing a Tin Oxide Silver Nanocomposite materials for antiheat and antibacterial applications, USAID Carwin Grant for developing nanocomposite materials for anticorrosion and antibarnacle applications for ship hull and development of a nanosensor for detecting lung diseases, CHED DARETO Grant for developing a nanosensor for animal feeds, DOST FASTRAC Grant for developing a product for AntiUV, anticorrosion, antibarnacle for ship hull and window applications, e-Asia Grant on the Fundamental Study of the Physical Properties of Metal Oxide Single Nanowires and Nanoparticles for Bionanosensing, DOST Cradle Grant called ZURFACE: Surface Modification of Philippine Natural Zeolite (SMNZ) for the Adsorption of Textile Dye Waste, DOST PCIEERD Grant for the Fabrication and Characterization of Hydrophobic Nanocomposite Plated Abaca Fabric for Enhanced Electromagnetic Interference Shielding and Thermal Resistance for Space Applications and a MECOTECO grant for Volatile Organic Compounds Detection in Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Using Multi- array Metal Oxide Gas Sensor.