Miguel Angel Fernández Sanjuán | |
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Born | León |
Nationality | Spanish, French |
Fields | Physics (Nonlinear dynamics, Chaos theory) |
Institutions | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
Miguel Angel Fernández Sanjuán (Miguel A. F. Sanjuán) is a Spanish Theoretical Physicist from Leon, Spain. He is known for his contributions in nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, and control of chaos, and has published several scientific papers and popular news articles. He has supervised around 20 PhD students in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos and Complex Systems.
He was a Professor at the University of Valladolid during the 1982–1984 period and later he became a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, 1986-1997. Currently Miguel A. F. Sanjuán is a professor of Physics at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain. He is also the Director of the Department of Physics and the Director of the Research Group on Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems. He had coauthored several scientific articles with Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, James A. Yorke , Ying-Cheng Lai and Lock Yue Chew etc. Prof. Miguel AF Sanjuán acted as Faculty Sponsor of the Doctorate Honoris Causa granted to Prof. James A. Yorke by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, on January 28, 2014.
He is a foreign member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. On the year 2002, he has secured the fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has also worked as a visiting Researcher in many countries including Germany, Lithuania, Italy, USA, Japan, Portugal, India, China. On the year 2015, Prof. Miguel A. F. Sanjuan became the elected member of Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (Real Academia de Ciencias). Prof. Miguel Angel Fernandez Sanjuan has received one of the Research Excellence Awards in the category of Sciences granted by the Social Council of the Rey Juan Carlos University in 2016.