Karen Volke-Sepúlveda

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Dr Karen Volke-Sepúlveda got her PhD in Optics in 2003 and she is currently Associate Professor at the Institute of Physics of the National Autonomous Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). She established the Optical Micromanipulation Laboratory in 2004, which nowadays has an active research group with two main researchers, postdoctoral fellows and students of different levels. She lectures at the Faculty of Sciences and in the Physical Sciences Postgraduate Program at UNAM. Her main research topics include optical and acoustical trapping, topological and dynamical properties of structured wavefields, analogies among different wave systems and nonlinear optical phenomena in colloidal media. Dr. Volke-Sepúlveda has been awarded several recognitions for her research, among them the European Optics Prize 2003 to a paper in which she is the first author.