Teaching & Mentoring

A good teacher can change somebody's life for the better; I know that from experience. At all turning points of my career, a teacher or a mentor inspired me to set goals and work hard to reach them.

That shapes how I teach: physics is learned by doing, so I lean on active problem-solving in the classroom and hands-on mentoring in research—guiding students into new topics and helping them write their first papers.

Courses taught as lecturer

All at the Universidad de Chile; "diploma" is the Postgraduate Diploma in Fundamentals of Physics.

• Electrodynamics (graduate), 2017—lectured 25% of the course in place of the professor; guest lecture in 2026.
• Mathematical Methods for Physics (diploma), 2021.
• Programming and Numerical Methods, guest lecture, 2022.
• Optics (diploma), 2024—a course I designed.
• Classical Mechanics (diploma), 2026.

Teaching assistant

• 22 TA appointments, starting in my junior year of undergrad, often more than one class at a time.
• Quantum Mechanics I and II, Classical Mechanics, and Electrodynamics at the graduate level; Electromagnetism, Mechanics, and Programming and Numerical Methods at the undergraduate level; and several diploma courses.
• Problem-solving sessions, preparing and grading homework, designing original exam problems, and giving class lectures.

Mentoring

• 19 undergraduate research projects supervised at the Universidad de Chile; four of them led to papers with the students as coauthors.
• Two master's students co-advised, both graduated (2024 and 2025).
• One PhD student currently co-advised.

I find mentoring young scientists—through formal supervision or informal discussions—one of the most rewarding parts of my work.