Miguel José Yacamán

Miguel José Yacamán (born August 17, 1946) is a Mexican physicist who has made contributions to the fields of materials science, nanotechnology, and physics.

His research has focused on the correlation of structure and properties in nanomaterials and he has developed electron microscopy methods to study nanoparticles and 2-D materials. The present focuses of his work are to develop the nanoscale equivalent of high entropy alloys and new catalysts to produce cleaner fuels.

He earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 1972 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and did his postdoctoral materials science studies at the University of Oxford. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California from 1978 to 1979.

Yacamán became the director of the Institute of Physics in 1983–1991. He was the Reese Endowed Professor in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin from 2001 to 2008. In 2008, he joined The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to chair the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Sciences until 2018.

As of early 2025, he is a professor of applied physics and materials science at Northern Arizona University. Provided by Wikipedia