Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The “Science is Our Common Language” video series features past and current ICTP Associates and it was launched in 2024, as the Centre was celebrating the 60th anniversary of its Associates Programme.
In the first video of the series, we meet ICTP Simons Associate Luis Foa Torres, a professor of physics at the University of Chile, and a former ICTP postdoctoral researcher.
Foa Torres was born in Argentina, where he did both his undergraduate studies and his PhD in physics. After doing a postdoc at ICTP, he also worked as a researcher in France and in Germany before going back to Argentina. There, he worked as professor at the National University of Córdoba with a joint appointment as a research scientist at Argentina’s National Council for Science and Technology. Then he moved to Chile, where he has been a professor at the University of Chile since 2016. Over the years, he has returned to ICTP several times, first as a Junior Associate, then as a Simons Associate in the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (CMSP) section. In 2018, he was awarded the ICTP Prize “for his important contributions to our understanding of topological insulators, graphene and two-dimensional materials and nanotubes, including quantum transport and optoelectronics.”
The “Science is Our Common Language” video series features past and current ICTP Associates and it was launched in 2024, as the Centre was celebrating the 60th anniversary of its Associates Programme.
In the first video of the series, we meet ICTP Simons Associate Luis Foa Torres, a professor of physics at the University of Chile, and a former ICTP postdoctoral researcher.
Foa Torres was born in Argentina, where he did both his undergraduate studies and his PhD in physics. After doing a postdoc at ICTP, he also worked as a researcher in France and in Germany before going back to Argentina. There, he worked as professor at the National University of Córdoba with a joint appointment as a research scientist at Argentina’s National Council for Science and Technology. Then he moved to Chile, where he has been a professor at the University of Chile since 2016. Over the years, he has returned to ICTP several times, first as a Junior Associate, then as a Simons Associate in the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (CMSP) section. In 2018, he was awarded the ICTP Prize “for his important contributions to our understanding of topological insulators, graphene and two-dimensional materials and nanotubes, including quantum transport and optoelectronics.”
