Luis Ruiz PestanaLuis Ruiz Pestana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Miami. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Northwestern University, and prior to joinig University of Miami he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemical Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an expert in a variety of molecular simulation techniques ranging from density functional theory to ab initio, classical, and coarse-grained molecular dynamics. He has organized and chaired multiple symposia at international conferences in molecular and multiscale modeling of materials and has published numerous articles in influential peer- reviewed journals. Read More Read Less