BIOGRAPHY

Heriberto Pfeiffer was born in Celaya Guanajuato, Mexico in 1971. He completed a BSc in chemistry at Universidad de Guanajuato in 1995. In 1997 he obtained a Masters degree in Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ, México) under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Bulbulian, and Prof. Pedro Bosch.

Later, in 2001 he obtained his PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Bulbulian, and Prof. Pedro Bosch at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, working on the synthesis of lithium ceramics for the tritium production. Heriberto had two different postdoctoral positions; at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Ecole Polytechnique de la Universite de Nantes (Fr) under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Knowles and Prof. Thierry Brousse, respectively.

In 2005 he got a permanent position at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he has been working.



Contact:

Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Circuito exterior s/n, Cd Universitaria
Del. Coyoacan, CP 04510, Cd de México
México
Phone: +52 (55) 5622 4627
E-mail:pfeiffer@materiales.unam.mx