Claudio Ugalde

Dr. Ugalde is a nuclear astrophysicist whose research comprises the understanding of the origin of the elements of the periodic table in the Universe. In the laboratory, Dr. Ugalde works with particle accelerators to simulate the process of thermonuclear fusion in stars.

He obtained an B.S. in nuclear physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Ph. D. in nuclear astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He has been a scientist at the University of Chicago, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and at Argonne National Laboratory. He is currently a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he has been the faculty advisor of the three undergraduate student organizations in the Physics Department for almost a decade. Dr. Ugalde is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications