Selim Romero

Location: Physical Science Building Room 123 Electronic Structure Lab
Telephone:915-747-7236
e-mail: ssromerogon@miners.utep.edu
Education

Advisor: Dr. Rajendra Zope
M.S. in Computational Science, University of Texas at El Paso, 2018-2020, Thesis: “Development And Assessment Of Local Scaled Self-Interaction Corrected Density Functional Method With Simple Scaling Factor”

Advisor: Dr. Jorge Lopez
M.S. in Physics, University of Texas at El Paso, 2016-2018, Thesis: “Geant4 study of gamma ray collimator for proton therapy”

Advisor: Dr. Hector Trejo
BS in Physics Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, 2010-2015

Appointments

Teaching Assistant, Computational Science program, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, 2020
Research Assistant, Physics department, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, 2020
Teaching Assistant, Computational Science program, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, 2018-2019
Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, 2016-2018
Lecturer, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, 2015-2016
Office Assistant in COBE, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juarez, 2013-2015
University Council in Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, 2014
Outstanding student acknowledgement UACJ, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez

Seminars
“FLOSIC meeting 2019” , FLOSIC center seminar series, 2019

Oral Presentations

Local scaled self-interaction-correction method using Fermi-Löwdin orbitals and a simple scaling factor”, APS march meeting 2021.

“Assessment of Local Scaling Self-Interaction correction with a simpler scaling factor”, FLOSIC meeting 2020.

“Solución numérica a la ecuación dependiente de Schödinger dependiente del tiempo con barrera de potencial estocástica”, Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica, 2014

Poster presentations

“Performance of Local-Self Interaction Correction using the density ratio as a scaling factor”, GradEXPO, 2021
“Study of Local Scaling Self-interaction correction with a simpler scaling factor”, FLOSIC meeting, 2019
“Geant4 simulator for gamma collimator to obtain the requirements of a measuring device and to track them”, Joint Fall 2017 Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS.
“Study of a slit-collimator with Geant4 ”, gradEXPO 2017
“Simulacion 2D de propagación de ondas heretogeneas”, Verano de investigación CICESE-delfin, summer 2014
“Sintetizacion de superconductor YBaxCuyOz”, CNyN Verano de la investigación, summer 2012

Publications

“Local self-interaction correction method with a simple scaling factor”, Selim Romero, Yoh Yamamoto, Tunna Baruah and Rajendra Zope, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 2406, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CP06282K

“A Step in the Direction of Resolving the Paradox of Perdew-Zunger Self-interaction Correction. II. Gauge Consistency of the Energy Density at Three Levels of Approximation”, Puskar Bhattarai, Kamal Wagle, Chandra Shahi, Yoh Yamamoto, Selim Romero, Biswajit Santra, Rajendra R. Zope, Juan E. Peralta, Koblar A. Jackson, and John P. Perdew, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 214109 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0010375

“Improvements in the orbitalwise scaling down of Perdew–Zunger self-interaction correction in many-electron regions”, Yoh Yamamoto, Selim Romero, Tunna Baruah and Rajendra R. Zope, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 174112 (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004738

“A GEANT4 Study of a Gamma-ray Collimation Array”, J. A. Lopez, S. S. Romero, O. Hernandez Rodriguez, J. Holmes and R. Alarcon, Journal of Nuclear Physics, Material Sciences, Radiation and Applications, 7(2), 217-221., 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15415/jnp.2020.72028

Recruitment Activities

Semana de ingeniería UACJ-IIT

Other public activities
Karate

Technical Skills
Matlab, Octave, C, Fortran, python, MPI, OpenMP, Maxima, Mathematica, Latex, git.