Edgar Abarca Morales
Edgar Abarca Morales
Mexico
Aug 2016 – Aug 2018
UPC: Barcelona, LTU: Luleå
As a physicist I was used to the little and big orders, this program let me connect both extremes within the language provided by all kind of matter structures. Also, I touched snow for the first time, I saw it piling up slowly under the northern lights!
Current job
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Doctoral student at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (Dresden, Germany)
Why did you choose AMASE?
Your motivation for choosing the programme (e.g. seeing different cultures, learning new languages, expanding your engineering/material science knowledge, international studies experience, etc.).
My biggest motivation was the challenge of listening and feeling through the eyes of other cultures
Did you experience any special moments during the programme? Tell us about them!
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What did you learn/experience during your time in the programme?
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I will never forget some livings during my time in AMASE: The secret world encompassed in the mesoscale of materials was shown to me for the first time. As a physicist I was used to the little and big orders, this program let me connect both extremes within the language provided by all kind of matter structures. Also, I touched the snow for the first time, I saw it piling up slowly under the northern lights. I was not alone, but with awesome people from so many places: Sometimes there were AMASE colleagues and friends, other times I could not even guess where they could have been born, in Mars or Jupiter maybe… culture was everywhere and from everywhere!
