Ronald S. Banzon

Program Coordinator: Structure and Dynamics Laboratory
Education:

June 1978 – May 1983 University of the Philippines, Diliman (BS Physics)

August 1986 – May 1993 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, U.S.A. (MS Physics)

June 1994 – April 1997 University of the Philippines, Diliman (Ph.D. Physics)

Fields of Interest: Computational Physics

Ronald’s research interests include: (1) studies on population dynamics via the Penna model, a bit-string model to account for the influence of aging/inheritance of genes and possible mutations, (2) molecular dynamics through formation of composite particles, (3) percolation, (4) quantum well states modeling, and (5) the investigation of circular polymers for the possible conformations that they may exhibit as those found in supercoiled plasmid DNA.

He has been involved in the study of small angle x-ray scattering of plasmid DNA.

Ronald has served as the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of UP Diliman from 2011 to 2014.

Selected Publications

1. N.I. Sombillo, R.S. Banzon, and C. Villagonzalo. Optimal fixed-point quantum search in an interacting ising spin system. Quantum Information Processing, 20(3), 2021.
2. Neris I. Sombillo, Ronald S. Banzon, and Cristine Villagonzalo. Measurement-enchanced quantum search. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1971, 2017.
3. Chrysline Margus N Pi nol and Ronald Banzon. Catastrophic senescence and semelparity in the penna aging model. Theory Biosci., 130(2): 101-106, 2011.