Cristine DLR. Villagonzalo

Professor

Cristine’s research interests in theoretical solid state physics include (1) thermoelectric properties, (2) quantum transport characteristics and (3) the magnetic behavior in low dimensional materials. For example, she studies the heat capacity behavior of two dimensional electron systems in the quantum Hall regime. She also conducts modeling of quantum heat engines and optimization of quantum search algorithms.

Cristine has been the program coordinator of SanD from its inception in 2003 until 2013, and again in 2018 up to June 2019. She has been the President of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas in 2017. She has also served as  the President of the National Research Council of the Phlilippines from April 2022 to March 2023. She is currently the Deputy Director of Academic Affairs of the NIP.

Selected Publications

  1. V.P. Villegas and C. D. Villagonzalo. Optimal polarization and susceptibility profiles of a half-filled open magnetoelectric Fermi-Hubbard optical dimer. Physics Letters A, 525 (2024) 129898 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2024.129898
  2. J. Prasongkit, S. Jungthawan, and C. Villagonzalo (2024). Enhancing thermoelectric efficiency in twisted bilayer PdSe2. ACS Appl. Energy Mater.2024, 7, 18, 7798–7807. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c01336
  3. N. Sombillo, R. Banzon and C. Villagonzalo. Optimal fixed-point quantum search in an interacting Ising Spin System, Quantum Inf. Process, 20 (2021) 90, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03023-1
  4. R. Gammag and C. Villagonzalo. Persistent spin-splitting of a two-dimensional electron gas in tilted magnetic fields. European Physics Journal B, 85 (2012) 22
  5. C. Villagonzalo, R.A. Römer and M. Schreiber. Thermoelectric transport properties in disordered systems near the Anderson transition, Eur. Phys. J. B 12 (1999) 179 – 189

 

Cristine DLR. Villagonzalo