Scientists and Researchers

Physics Education

Project Management

Experienced in project planning, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation, project report writing

Mine land rehabilitation

Project planning, nickel mine rehabilitation, designing corridors for biodiversity pathways, assisted natural regeneration of flora and fauna

Habitat connectivity

Research on the interconnectivity of various habitats (natural-human disturbed; agriculture-forest; agriculture-mining; forest-mining)

systematics, taxonomy, biodiversity, biogeography, Philippine earthworms

I specialize in the study of the biodiversity of Philippine earthworms. In my research work, I have described around 50 new species of earthworms.

simulation and nanomaterials

nanotubes; nanoribbons; nanostructures

Radiation Biology, Biological Testing of Biomaterials, Food Irradiation & Microbiology

in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo biological techniques

Mathematics

Mathematical crystallography and Aperiodic order, Combinatorics, Canonical number systems, Discrete geometry

natural products chemistry

spectroscopy-aided identification of complex molecules from plants and fungi with anti-infective, cytotoxic and enzyme inhibitory properties

organic synthesis

total synthesis of biologically-active natural products; donor-acceptor cyclopropanes in organic synthesis; diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS)

chemical catalysis

discovery and development of catalytic systems aiding carbon-carbon forming reactions, rearrangements and activation of inert C-H bonds

Mathematics

Mathematics

Stochastic Integration, Math Modelling, and Finance

My interest is in application of Deterministic/Stochastic modeling, Dispersive and Hyperbolic PDE’s esp. to flood, tsunami, biology and math finance