About the Author

Jorge López Gallardo is Schumaker Professor of physics at the University of Texas at El Paso and has performed research at The Cyclotron Institute of Texas A&M University, The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, The Lawrence Berkeley Lab and other institutions. Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Dr. López received SHEP's 2011 Educator of the Year Award, MAES' 2010 MAEStro Award and the 2009 Hyer Research Award of the Texas Section of APS. He is the author of "Phase Transitions in Nuclear Matter" (World Scientific, 2000) and of hundreds of research and dissemination articles and three other books on scientific studies of electoral data. Miguel Castro Colín is an expert in X-ray scattering. Currently at Bruker AXS GmbH in Karlsruhe, Germany, Dr. Castro has held research positions at the National Institute of Nuclear Research of Mexico, the Laser Plasma Physics Group at the University of Oxford, the X-ray Scattering Group at The University of Houston and at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart Germany. He has performed spectroscopic and elastic scattering measurements in facilities in the United Kingdom (Rutherford Appleton Lab.), USA (Brookhaven National Lab., Argonne National Lab. and LCLS in Stanford), Germany (DESY in Hamburg and the ANKA Synchrotron in Karlsruhe) and France (ESRF).