Distinguished Physicist Visits Ohio University
Researcher will have a busy year during sabbatical
 

Written by Liz Leitch, 10.03.2006

Dr. Lilia Meza-Montes will serve as one of this year’s visiting professors in Ohio University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy as part of the Glidden Visiting Professorship award.


“In the nanoscopic world, things are very different than in real life,” Meza-Montes said, who along with researchers at Ohio University is currently studying quantum dots and how they relate to the Kondo effect. See: Double Quantum Dots Control Kondo Effects


“We want to find the electrons, and learn how electrons and their spin behave with the dots when a magnetic field is applied,” she said. “This spin orbit effect is very important”


Meza-Montes is currently on sabbatical from the Institute of Physics at the University of Puebla in Mexico. She has been with the University of Puebla for the past 18 years, but has visited Ohio University before during the completion of her post doctoral work in the late 1990’s.


“I like Ohio University,” Meza-Montes said. “There is good hospitality, the facilities are nice, and it is gorgeous.”


In addition to her research, Meza-Montes is keeping busy with her efforts to increase the participation of women in physics. She is working with the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) to get more women involved. Meza-Montes is also working with the Women’s Studies program, and will be giving lectures throughout the 2006-07 academic school year.