Miguel Trejo

  Research interests

• Nonlinear physics and instabilities.
• Pattern Formation in non-equilibrium systems.
• Reaction-diffusion systems.
• Fluid and Elastic Membrane Mechanics.
• Differential Geometry.
• Finite Elasticity.
• Active Matter.
• Liquid crystals physics.

  Short CV (detailled CV - PDF)

• 2010-Present Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS, Paris, France


• 2006-2009 Ph.D., Physics. Université Paris VI-Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPS-ENS). Paris, France. Advisor: Dr. Martine Ben Amar. Subject: Theoretical studies of fluid and elastic membranes.


• 2003–2005 M.S., Physics. Departamento de Física (DFI), Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM). Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile. Advisor: Dr. Marcel Clerc and Dr. Enrique Tirapegui. Subject: Pattern formation and localized structures in monoatomic layer deposition.


• 1999-2002 B.S., Physics. Departamento de Física (DFI), Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM). Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile.

  Selected publications

• "Effective line tension and contact angles between membrane domains in biphasic vesicles."
  M. Trejo and M. Ben Amar.
  submitted to Soft matter. .

• "Hamiltonian formulation of surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature."
  M. Trejo, M. Ben Amar and Martin Michael Müller.
  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. , 42, 425204 (2009).

• "Pattern formation and localized structures in monoatomic layer deposition"
  M. G. Clerc, E. Tirapegui and M. Trejo
  Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 146: 407, 2007.

• "Pattern Formation and Localized Structures in Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Non-Fickian Transport" (PDF)
  M. G. Clerc, E. Tirapegui and M. Trejo
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 97: 176102, 2006.

• "Spiral Patterns in the Packing of Flexible Structures" (PDF)
  L. Boué, M. Adda-Bedia, A. Boudaoud, D. Cassani, Y. Couder, A. Eddi and M. Trejo
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 97: 166104, 2006.

• "Theoretical studies of fluid and elastic membranes."
  M. Trejo
  Ph.D. thesis, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France (2009)

• "Formación de nanoestructuras durante la deposición de películas monoatómicas." (in spanish)
  M. Trejo
  Master thesis, University Santiago of Chile, France (2005)

  External collaborators

• M. G. Clerc
• Enrique Tirapegui