I am interested in the study of fundamental properties of matter, particularly of solids and isolated molecules. To achieve this, I make use of several tools such as Scanning Probe Microscopy, Density Functional Theory, and/or Molecular Dynamics. On my free time I enjoy learning coding and machine learning, with the security that these tools will come handy in the future.

Ricardo Ruvalcaba, et. al. Surface structures of magnetostrictive D03-Fe3Ga(0 0 1), Applied Surface Science, Volume 553, 2021, 149488, ISSN 0169-4332, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149488.

Ricardo Ruvalcaba, Joseph P. Corbett, Jonathan Guerrero-Sanchez, Cu atoms induce a new reconstruction in the MnGa(001) surface: An ab-initio study, Applied Surface Science, Volume 597, 2022, 153514, ISSN 0169-4332, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.153514.

Surface Science computational simulations material properties Scanning probe microscopy machine learning