Ruben Gerardo Barrera

Rubén Gerardo Barrera y Pérez (born 3 February 1947) is a Mexican physicist, professor, and researcher.

He is a currently professor emeritus at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

[1] His area of specialty is condensed matter physics, and his main interest has been the optical properties of inhomogeneous systems.

In 1971, he obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Professor Gordon Baym.

[2] He was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by their Forum on International Physics in 2001[3] for his significant contributions to the understanding of the optical properties of surfaces and inhomogenous media, as well as for his leadership in the establishment and improvement of relations among physicists in the Americas, and for helping to create the Latin American Federation of Physics Societies.