VICENTE ABOITES MANRIQUE

Vicente Aboites, FInstP, carried out studies of physics at the Metropolitan University in Mexico City and of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom. He carried out his doctoral work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, and presented his thesis at the University of Essex in England. He did specialization studies in electronics and control at the University of Paris VI and a post-doctoral in optoelectronics and lasers at the University of Berlin. He was a fellow Maria Curie from the European Community as a researcher at the Imperial College of London. In 1986 founded the Lasers Laboratory at the Center for Research in Optics in Mexico from which he is Head and researcher. Prof. Aboites, was visiting researcher at the Group of Dynamic Systems of the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT) among other national and international institutions. He has overseen the work of several dozens of graduates, both doctoral and master’s, and undergraduate students. He has published 20 books and around 200 international rigorous research papers in addition to hundreds of papers in several national newspapers dealing with popular science and scientific policy and education. His lines of research are: Laser Physics, System Dynamics and Philosophy of Science.
Concerned about Mexico’s educational situation, he has founded several educational institutions at the basic and high-school levels, having academic excellence as sole objective.
He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, of Mexico’s National Research System, and of the International Society for Philosophy. In recognition of his professional achievements, he was distinguished with the appointment of FELLOW by the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom.