Menchaca-Rocha Arturo

Menchaca-Rocha is a Mexican nuclear physicist with an Oxford D.Phil. and postdoctoral training at LBNL. His interests include heavy-ion reaction mechanisms and their hydrodynamic simulation; the production of light nuclei and antinuclei, with applications to cosmology. He is member of important international collaborations such as ALICE and AMS2. Locally, he pioneered muon-imaging, carrying highly visible applications to the Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun and to the Popocatepetl Volcano. He has published > 650 papers, cited > 100,000 times with an H = 150 (Google Scholar). Directed (2003-07) the UNAM Physics Institute of Physics; presided over the Mexican Academy of Sciences (2010-12); and is (2016-19) General Coordinator of the Science Advisory Council to the Mexican Presidency (2016-2022). Among other distinctions, in 2004 he received the National Science Prize, the highest academic honor in Mexico. In 2017 was named Emeritus of the National Researchers System. Since 2024 he is UNAM´s Emeritus Researcher, a lifelong position equivalent to Distinguished Professor.