Alberto Herrera-Gomez

Alberto Herrera-Gomez is a Professor of Materials Science at CINVESTAV-Queretaro, Mexico. He obtained his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1994. Alberto spent two sabbaticals (2005-2007) at the University of Texas at Dallas as a Visiting Associate Professor, and one sabbatical at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City (2012) where he was granted the Daniel Schechtman Chair. Alberto was named Fellow of the AVS in 2016 “for his seminal contributions to developing quantitative surface analysis, especially for XPS.”

He received the Mexican National Award in Food Science in 2000 for work related to the analysis of infrared data allowing for the discrimination of free and bound water on hydrophilic materials. In 2019, he received the “Francisco Espinoza” award from the Mexican Vacuum Society for “his pioneering contributions to XPS and for the formation of a XPS school in Mexico.” His primary research involves the structure, mass transport, and thermal stability of nanoscale films, and the development of quantitative analytical method for optimizing the quality and quantity of information extracted from XPS spectra. He is now engaged in synchrotron studies about the background signal in XPS data.