Carlos Alberto Donado Morcillo, PhD

• Electromagnetism and microwaves
• Antennas
• Passive circuits
• Wireless technologies

Dr. Donado graduated from the USMA School of Electronic Engineering and completed post-graduate studies (MSc’08 and PhD’12) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing his research on electromagnetism and ultracompact radars. He has specializations in Public Policy and Technology Administration from the same Institution.

He has more than 12 years of experience in research and development of high-frequency passive circuits and is currently a senior engineer at the Canadian company Nanowave Technologies Inc. where he researches and designs new technologies for remote sensing and wireless communications systems in the terrestrial sector. and aerospace. Since 2015 he has served as co-principal investigator in various projects of the Biomedical Physics and Engineering Unit of INDICASAT AIP, where he works on the development of novel technological devices for the treatment of infectious diseases. He is also an adjunct professor at the Santa María la Antigua Catholic University.

He has participated in private research programs for high-tech corporations, as well as public programs funded by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). And he is a member of IEEE, and a reviewer of articles for the journals Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and Microwave Wireless Letters.

Awards: Best student Paper, Radio and Wireless Symposium 2012, Fulbright Scholarship (2006-2008).

• Diagnosis of syndromes associated with structural and numerical anomalies and determination of the origin of marker chromosomes in patients with genetic anomalies by means of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Genetics Service, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile and Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (February, 1999) Technique used:  Fluorescence in situ hybridization.
• Experiments to determine the role of Map kinase and Jun kinase in the signal transduction pathway in rat myotubes. Research unit in the laboratory of Dr. María Angélica Carrasco, Physiology, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile. September 1998-January 1999. Techniques used: Protein determination, protein electrophoresis, Western blot
• ADN analysis for forensic purposes. Training received in May and June 1998 at the Legal Medical Service of Chile. Techniques used:  DNA extraction, PCR, SSCP, agarose gel electrophoresis.
• Participation (1997-1998) in the cooperation project between the University of Chile and the Marie-Claire King Laboratory of the University of Washington, Seattle, in which the prevalence of mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in Chilean families is investigated at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Currently the Chilean participation is in charge of Dr. Pilar Carvallo from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Techniques learned:  DNA extraction, PCR, SSCP, agarose gel electrophoresis.