Senior Lecturer in Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Rodrigo Ledesma Aguilar is currently a Senior Lecturer in Physics and Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University Newcastle, UK. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona, and worked as a postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics in the University of Oxford.
His research interests lie at the interface of soft condensed matter physics and smart materials science.
Time crystals: how scientists created a new state of matter
Feb 22, 2017 09:23 am UTC| Science
Some of the most profound predictions in theoretical physics, such as Einsteins gravitational waves or Higgs boson, have taken decades to prove with experiments. But every now and then, a prediction can become established...
Scientists have discovered a new state of matter for water
Dec 26, 2016 00:56 am UTC| Science
One of the most basic things we are taught in school science classes is that water can exist in three different states, either as solid ice, liquid water, or vapour gas. But an international team of scientists have...
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