Citizenship Mexican Institutions INAOE | Name Hector Moya | |
Fields Physics, Quantum Optics Alma mater Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana | ||
Doctoral advisor Sir Peter Knight | ||
Héctor Manuel Moya Cessa (born 27 June 1966) is a physicist specialising in quantum optics. He is currently a researcher/lecturer at Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, in Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico.
Life
Born in Acayucan, Veracruz, Mexico, Moya Cessa performed work on his PhD with Professor Sir Peter Knight at Imperial College (1990-1993).
He has been awarded several prizes, including the ICO-ICTP Prize and the Science Research Prize of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, both in 2006.
He served as President of the Division of Quantum Information of the Mexican Physical Society from 2011 to 2013.
Since 1996 he is a Regular Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
He has written three books: one on Quantum Optics, one on Differential equations, and one on Perturbation theory.
He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.