Faculty and Staff

Ronald Banzon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Rayda Peregil Gammag, M.Sc. Instructor

Cristine Villagonzalo, Dr. rer. nat. Assistant Professor Structure and Dynamics Program Coordinator Naomi Jacosalem University Research Associate

Faculty Profile

Dr. Ronald Banzon

Computational Physics

Dr. Banzon's current research interests include: (1) studies on population dynamics via the Penna Model, a bit-string model to account for the influence of aging/inheritance of genes and possible mutations, (2) molecular dynamics through formation of composite particles, (3) percolation, (4) quantum well states modeling, and (5) the investigation of circular polymers in solution for the possible conformations that they may exhibit as those found in supercoiled plasmid DNA.

Dr. Cristine Villagonzalo

Theoretical Solid State Physics

Dr. Villagonzalo's research interests in low dimensional materials include (1) thermoelectric properties, (2) transport characteristics and (3) their magnetic behavior. For example, she studies the behavior of two dimensional electron systems in the quantum Hall regime. She collaborates with Dr. Banzon in the field of percolation and modeling of quantum well states.

She has been involved in the study of thermoelectric properties in disordered systems.