Francisco Tovar Lopez

Dr Francisco Tovar received the B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded with an ARC-DECRA and a Vice Chancellor Research Fellow at RMIT in 2012. His research projects involve the creation and development technology to advance knowledge in biomedicine. He also has experience working internationally as a mechanical engineer in the biomedical industry developing artificial organs. He specialises in mechanical design, computational simulation, micro/nano fabrication, fluid experimental techniques and programming languages.

Patents:
Fluid pumping device and components with static seal.
(http://www.google.com/patents/US20090264697#!)
United States Patent Application 20090264697
Filed October 22, 2009. Granted 2013
Inventors: F. Tovar.

Platelet aggregation using a microfluidics device.
(https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2010102335#!)
Europe Patent Application WO2010102335,
Australia PCT/AU2010/000273.
Filed September 2010
Inventors: J. Carberi, S. Jackson, W.S. Nesbitt, A. Mitchell, F. Tovar.

Awards:
2007 PhD Scholarship. Conacyt. PhD scholarship.
2011 MicroTAS Travel Award
2012 Vicechancellour Research Fellow
2012 DECRA- ARC Fellow
2014 National Research System Mexico Level -1 (SNI-I)