Alejandro A. GARCÍA Born in 1988, Argentina. Contact: aagzorzal.net | aagarciafi.uba.ar

I am a PhD student in cotutelle at both the Grupo Medios Porosos in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires and at the FAST Laboratory in the University of Paris-Saclay.

I am researching the flow through narrow channels of viscous fluids with solid particles suspended inside. Such fluids are called suspensions and can be found in a variety of industrial applications (transport though pipes, microfluidic devices) and also in nature (blood, contaminants in groundwater, landslides). At the lab, we perform experiments with a model system made with plastic spheres and aqueous solutions, visualizing and tracking the particles using a software I have written in C and Python programming languages.

In the following video you can see a brief summary of the results (Nov 2020).

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Publications

Microstructure response of concentrated suspensions to flow reversal.
  A.A. Garcia, Y.L. Roht, I. Ippolito, D. Salin, G. Drazer, J.P. Hulin, G. Gauthier.
  Eur. Phys. J. E 48, 7 (2025). doi
  preprint

Instability in suspensions oscillating along narrow channels.
  A.A. Garcia, Y.L. Roht, G. Gauthier, D. Salin, G. Drazer, J.P. Hulin, I. Ippolito.
  Proceedings of LACCEI 2023. doi
  preprint

Unstable oscillatory flow of non-Brownian suspensions in Hele-Shaw cells.
  A.A. Garcia, Y.L. Roht, G. Gauthier, D. Salin, G. Drazer, J.P. Hulin, I. Ippolito.
  Physical Review Fluids 8, 034301 (2023). doi
  preprint

Education

2019 - 0000 PhD in preparation at
  Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and
  SMEMAG, Université Paris-Saclay, France.
  Research area: Transport and instabilities of suspensions.
  Advisors (Argentina): Irene Ippolito and Y. Lucrecia Roht.
  Advisors (France): Georges Gauthier.

2006 - 2019 Licenciatura en Ciencias Físicas (Physics), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Graduation thesis (Spanish)

2001 - 2005 Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini.

Teaching experience

2019 - 0000 Assistant Professor (Exercises) in Physics 1 and 2, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1st year students, 10 hours / week.

Languages

Spanish native.
English.

Additional knowledge and skills

Information technology:
• Programming in C, C++ and Python.
• SQL databases (MS-SQL, My-SQL).
• Basics of web technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
• Basics of system administration in GNU/Linux.