Rate My Professor Mario Encinosa

Mario Encinosa, Ph.D., is a Professor of Physics and serves as the Physics Graduate Program Director at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Florida. He has been affiliated with the Department of Physics since August 1993, teaching courses including PHY 2048 General Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Physics, Statistics, and honors sections of General Physics. His office is in Jones Hall Room 110, and he can be reached at (850) 599-8461.

Encinosa's research specializations and academic interests include quantum mechanics on curved surfaces, toroidal nanostructures, electron gases in toroidal shells, quantum transport in carbon nanodevices, electron-phonon interactions, magnetic field effects on nanostructures, toroidal moments, non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, high-performance computing (HPC) simulations, basis set expansions, curvature-induced potentials, and surface geometric effects on quantum states. He has 37 publications with 313 citations. Key publications are: "Electron gases in toroidal shells: mode coupling and state functions" (2022), "Wave functions and spectra of charge carriers in a toroidal nanostructure: The transition from ring to bulk states" (2018), "Wave functions for a toroidal quantum dot in the presence of an axially symmetric magnetic field: transition from ring to bulk states as a function of aspect ratio" (2018), "Quantum toroidal moments of nanohelix eigenstates" (2015), "QRing − a scaleable, parallel software tool for quantum transport simulations in carbon nanodevices using linear solvers on Intel Xeon/Phi and GPU architectures" (2015), "QRing – A scalable parallel software tool for quantum transport simulations in carbon nanoring devices based on NEGF formalism and a parallel C++ / MPI / PETSc algorithm" (2014), "Quantum toroidal moments of an elliptic toroidal helix in a constant magnetic field" (2011), "Toroidal moments of Schrödinger eigenstates" (2011), "Quantum electron transport in toroidal carbon nanotubes" (2008), "Quantum electron transport in toroidal carbon nanotubes with metallic leads" (2007), "Dipole and solenoidal magnetic moments of electronic surface currents on toroidal nanostructures" (2007), "Curvature-induced toroidal bound states" (2003), "Bohmian trajectories on a toroidal surface" (2003), "Power series Schrödinger eigenfunctions for a particle on the torus" (2002), "Quantum particle constrained to a curved surface in the presence of a vector potential" (1999), and "Energy shifts resulting from surface curvature of quantum nanostructures" (1998). His thesis is "Charge dependence of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in a quark model" (1987).