Marie Lopez del Puerto is a condensed matter physicist whose research concerns the computational study of the electronic, optical, and quantum properties of nanocrystals and nanostructures.[1] As a physics educator, she has worked to integrate computational physics into the undergraduate physics curriculum.[2][3] Educated in Mexico and the US, she works in the US as a professor of physics and chair of the physics department at the University of St. Thomas, a private Catholic university in Minnesota.[1]
She became a faculty member at the University of St. Thomas in 2008.[4]
Recognition
Lopez del Puerto was a 2023 recipient of the Excellence in Physics Education Award of the American Physical Society (APS), for her work with the Partnership for Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Physics, a multi-university physics education project which she joined in 2012.[4] She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Education, "for impactful work on integrating computation into the physics curriculum, for leadership in the Partnership for Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Physics, and for service to the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers".[6]
References
^ ab"Marie Lopez del Puerto", College faculty, University of St. Thomas College of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2023-10-21
^ ab"Marie Lopez del Puerto", Membership spotlight, American Association of Physics Teachers, December 2019, retrieved 2023-10-21
