Felipe Asenjo

Felipe Asenjo

Doctor en Física
Profesor Asociado
FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA Y CIENCIAS
CHILE
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Felipe Asenjo

Doctor en Física

Grupo: Física + Astro

Felipe Asenjo Zapata es físico (2004) y Doctor en Física (2010) de la Universidad de Chile; y actualmente es profesor asociado de la Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), a la cual llegó en noviembre del 2013 a través de un Programa de Inserción de Capital Humano Avanzado en la Academia (PAI) de CONICyT.

Sus intereses de investigación se relacionan con la física teórica del plasma, relatividad, cosmología, mecánica cuántica, teoría cuántica de campos, astrofísica, plasmas cuánticos, reconexión magnética, propagación de ondas no lineales, reacción de radiación, física educativa, física forense. 

Esto lo ha llevado a realizar diferentes estadías de investigación tanto en Chile como en el extranjero: en 2015 fue profesor visitante en el Instituto de Estudios de Fusión de la Universidad de Texas en Austin (Estados Unidos), en 2011 colaboró con el Dr. Felix Borotto en la Universidad de Concepción (Chile), en 2010 tuvo la oportunidad de trabajar junto al Dr. Mattias Marklund en la Universidad de Umeå (Suecia) y en 2010 estuvo en Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) y en el Instituto Nacional de Investigación Espacial del Brasil (INPE) en Brasil. 

Felipe ha publicado su trabajo en importantes revistas nacionales e internacionales, y ha participado de diferentes congresos, como el Simposio Chileno de Física. Además, es miembro de la American Physical Society (APS) y de la Sociedad Chilena de Física (Sochifi) y revisor de múltiples revistas del sector, como Physical Review Letters, The European Physical Journal – Plus, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, entre otras. 

Su principal motivación para seguir investigando radica en descubrir nuevas ramas y temas que aún no han sido revelados. Para Felipe, la exploración que conlleva aprender y demostrar nuevos fenómenos naturales es muy parecido a una aventura, pero que muy pocas veces se tiene la oportunidad de ser el único o el primero en descubrir algo.

En la UAI, es profesor de las cátedras de Mecánica y de los cursos de Ciencias I y Ciencias II de la Facultad de Artes Liberales, lo que lo ha llevado a entender que cuando enseña, él aprende. Por lo mismo, Felipe considera importante escuchar a sus estudiantes, porque muchas veces tienen ideas nuevas que pueden llegar a producir grandes avances científicos.

Laser-driven annular shock waves as laboratory analogues of wCDM cosmologies and cosmological gravitational waves</>

Asenjo, F., Veloso, F. & Valenzuela, J., dic. 2026, In: Communications Physics, 9, 1.

Frozen-In Gravitational Fields</>

Asenjo, F., Winkler, M. & Comisso, L., abr. 2026, In: Physical Review Letters, 136, 16.

Dark energy battery for magnetic field generation in plasmas in de Sitter spacetimes</>

Villarroel-Sepúlveda, N., Moya, P., Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., mar. 2026, In: General Relativity and Gravitation, 58, 3.

Electromagnetic plasma wave modes propagating along light-cone coordinates</>

Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., feb. 2026, In: Physics of Plasmas, 33, 2.

Curved space-time corrections to Faraday rotation in magnetized plasmas far from Schwarzschild black holes</>

Asenjo, F., Moya, P., Muñoz, V. & Alejandro Valdivia, J., feb. 2026, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 706.

The effect of plasma expansion on the dispersion properties of MHD waves</>

Saldivia, S., Asenjo, F. & Moya, P., sep. 2025, In: Physica Scripta, 100, 9.

Ultrarelativistic outflows in asymmetric magnetic reconnection</>

Winkler, M. & Asenjo, F., sep. 2025, In: Physics of Plasmas, 32, 9.

Electromagnetic plasma waves in Big Bounce and Big Crunch cosmologies</>

Asenjo, F., ago. 2025, In: Physica Scripta, 100, 8.

Accelerating Airy tensor modes of cosmological gravitational waves</>

Aravena-Plaza, C., Muñoz, V. & Asenjo, F., jun. 2025, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2025, 6.

Electron-scale Magnetic Holes Generation Driven by Whistler-to-Bernstein Mode Conversion in Fully Kinetic Plasma Turbulence</>

Espinoza-Troni, J., Arrò, G., Asenjo, F. & Moya, P., jun. 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal, 986, 2.

Magnetic seed generation by plasma heat flux in accretion disks</>

Villarroel-Sepúlveda, N., Asenjo, F. & Moya, P., ene. 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693.

Accelerating solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation</>

Winkler, M. & Asenjo, F., dic. 2024, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 57, 49.

Quantifying the Expanding and Cooling Effects into the Double Adiabatic Evolution of the Solar Wind Through the Expanding Box Model</>

Echeverría-Veas, S., Moya, P., Lazar, M., Poedts, S. & Asenjo, F., nov. 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal, 975, 1.

Extended BMT equations and the anomalous magnetic moment</>

Asenjo, F. & Koch, B., jul. 2024, In: European Physical Journal Plus, 139, 7.

Ponderomotive forces in magnetized nonthermal space plasmas due to cyclotron waves</>

Espinoza-Troni, J., Asenjo, F. & Moya, P., jun. 2024, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686.

Cosmological electromagnetic Hopfions</>

Hojman, S. & Asenjo, F., may. 2024, In: Physica Scripta, 99, 5.

Existence of Korteweg-de Vries solitons and relevance of relativistic effects in a dusty electron-ion plasma</>

Winkler, M., Muñoz, V. & Asenjo, F., abr. 2024, In: Fundamental Plasma Physics, 9.

Supersymmetric behavior of polarized electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media</>

Asenjo, F., Hojman, S., M. Villegas-Martínez, B., Moya-Cessa, H. & Soto-Eguibar, F., feb. 2024, In: Modern Physics Letters A, 39, 6.

Abnormal light propagation and the underdetermination of theory by evidence in astrophysics</>

Asenjo, F., Hojman, S., Linnemann, N. & Read, J., ene. 2024, In: Annals of Physics, 460.

Developing Pulsed Micro Energy Propulsion Systems for Nano Satellite Attitude Control using Plasma Focus Technology</>

Vásquez-Wilson, C., Pavez, C., Moreno, J., Jain, J., Bora, B., Diaz, M., Hereira, M., Asenjo, F., Altamirano, L. & Soto, L., 2024.

Exact solutions to the telegraph equation in terms of airy functions</>

Asenjo, F., Hojman, S., Villegas-Martínez, B., Moya-Cessa, H. & Soto-Eguibar, F., 2024, In: Revista Mexicana de Fisica, 70, 4, p. 1-4.

Non-Hermitian dynamics from Hermitian systems</>

Villegas-Martínez, B., Soto-Eguibar, F., Moya-Cessa, H., Hojman, S. & Asenjo, F., 2024, In: Modern Physics Letters B, 38, 22.

Electromagnetic plasma waves in dark energy cosmology</>

Asenjo, F., dic. 2023, In: Physics of Plasmas, 30, 12.

London-Like Tensor Modes of Gravitational Waves in Cosmic String Cosmology</>

Aravena-Plaza, C., Muñoz, V. & Asenjo, F., dic. 2023, In: Gravitation and Cosmology, 29, 4, p. 400-403.

Response to comment on “Interacting quantum and classical waves</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., ago. 2023, In: Physics of Plasmas, 30, 8.

Exact and paraxial Airy propagation of relativistic electron plasma wavepackets</>

Winkler, M., Vásquez-Wilson, C. & Asenjo, F., jun. 2023, In: European Physical Journal D, 77, 6.

Ponderomotive forces due to electron modes in unmagnetized plasmas described by kappa distribution functions</>

Espinoza-Troni, J., Asenjo, F. & Moya, P., jun. 2023, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 65, 6.

Calculating the Sun radius using a projection tube, a smartphone and a geometry software</>

Arias, M., Caerols, H. & Asenjo, F., may. 2023, In: Physics Education, 58, 3.

Parametric amplification of electromagnetic plasma waves in resonance with a dispersive background gravitational wave</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., mar. 2023, In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 107, 3.

Airy heat bullets</>

Asenjo, F. & Hojman, S., oct. 2022, In: European Physical Journal Plus, 137, 10.

Supersymmetric relativistic quantum mechanics in time-domain</>

Asenjo, F., Hojman, S., Moya-Cessa, H. & Soto-Eguibar, F., oct. 2022, In: Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 450.

Two-mode squeezed state generation using the Bohm potential</>

Moya-Cessa, H., Asenjo, F., Hojman, S. & Soto-Eguibar, F., mar. 2022, In: Modern Physics Letters B, 36, 9.

Almost relevant corrections for direct measurements of electron's g factor</>

Koch, B., Asenjo, F. & Hojman, S., mar. 2022, In: Physical Review D, 105, 5.

Interacting quantum and classical waves</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., feb. 2022, In: Physics of Plasmas, 29, 2.

Bohm approach to the Gouy phase shift</>

Moya-Cessa, H., Hojman, S., Asenjo, F. & Soto-Eguibar, F., feb. 2022, In: Optik, 252.

Light-like propagation of self-interacting Klein–Gordon fields in cosmology</>

Asenjo, F. & Hojman, S., ene. 2022, In: European Physical Journal Plus, 137, 1.

Unification of massless field equations solutions for any spin</>

Hojman, S. & Asenjo, F., ene. 2022, In: EPL, 137, 2.

Reply to Comment on ‘Do electromagnetic waves always propagate along null geodesics?’</>

Asenjo, F. & Hojman, S., dic. 2021, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38, 23.

Bohm potential for the time dependent harmonic oscillator</>

Soto-Eguibar, F., Asenjo, F., Hojman, S. & Moya-Cessa, H., dic. 2021, In: Journal of Mathematical Physics, 62, 12.

Magnetic reconnection as a mechanism for energy extraction from rotating black holes</>

Comisso, L. & Asenjo, F., ene. 2021, In: Physical Review D, 103, 2.

Estimating the Moon-to-Earth Radius Ratio with a Smartphone, a Telescope, and an Eclipse</>

Caerols, H. & Asenjo, F., oct. 2020, In: Physics Teacher, 58, 7, p. 497-501.

Generalized magnetofluid connections in curved spacetime</>

Comisso, L. & Asenjo, F., jul. 2020, In: Physical Review D, 102, 2.

Resonant interaction between dispersive gravitational waves and scalar massive particles</>

Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., mar. 2020, In: Physical Review D, 101, 6.

Weighing the Sun with five photographs</>

Caerols, H. & Asenjo, F., 2020, In: European Journal of Physics, 41, 1.

Diamagnetic field states in cosmological plasmas</>

Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., may. 2019, In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 99, 5.

The contribution of magnetic monopoles to the ponderomotive force</>

Asenjo, F. & Moya, P., may. 2019, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 52, 25.

Gravitational electromotive force in magnetic reconnection around Schwarzschild black holes</>

Asenjo, F. & Comisso, L., mar. 2019, In: Physical Review D, 99, 6.

General connected and reconnected fields in plasmas</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., feb. 2018, In: Physics of Plasmas, 25, 2.

Collisionless magnetic reconnection in curved spacetime and the effect of black hole rotation</>

Comisso, L. & Asenjo, F., feb. 2018, In: Physical Review D, 97, 4.

Magnetic connections in curved spacetime</>

Asenjo, F. & Comisso, L., dic. 2017, In: Physical Review D, 96, 12.

Relativistic kinetic equation for spin-1/2 particles in the long-scale-length approximation</>

Ekman, R., Asenjo, F. & Zamanian, J., ago. 2017, In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 96, 2.

Spinning particles coupled to gravity and the validity of the universality of free fall</>

Hojman, S. & Asenjo, F., may. 2017, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34, 11.

Explicitly covariant dispersion relations and self-induced transparency</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., feb. 2017, In: Journal of Plasma Physics, 83, 1.

Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Kerr Spacetime</>

Asenjo, F. & Comisso, L., feb. 2017, In: Physical Review Letters, 118, 5.

Generalized magnetofluid connections in pair plasmas</>

Asenjo, F., Comisso, L. & Mahajan, S., dic. 2015, In: Physics of Plasmas, 22, 12.

Hot Fluids and Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., may. 2015, In: International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 54, 5, p. 1435-1449.

Generalized magnetofluid connections in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics</>

Asenjo, F. & Comisso, L., mar. 2015, In: Physical Review Letters, 114, 11.

Comparison of the electron-spin force and radiation reaction force</>

Mahajan, S., Asenjo, F. & Hazeltine, R., feb. 2015, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446, 4, p. 4112-4115.

Relativistic quantum vorticity of the quadratic form of the Dirac equation</>

Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., ene. 2015, In: Physica Scripta, 90, 1.

Magnetic field seed generation in plasmas around charged and rotating black holes</>

Qadir, A., Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., ago. 2014, In: Physica Scripta, 89, 8.

Thermal-inertial effects on magnetic reconnection in relativistic pair plasmas</>

Comisso, L. & Asenjo, F., jul. 2014, In: Physical Review Letters, 113, 4.

Large-amplitude electromagnetic waves in magnetized relativistic plasmas with temperature</>

Muñoz, V., Asenjo, F., Domínguez, M., López, R., Valdivia, J., Viñas, A. & Hada, T., feb. 2014, In: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 21, 1, p. 217-236.

Braun, asenjo, and mahajan reply</>

Braun, S., Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., dic. 2013, In: Physical Review Letters, 112, 12.

Neutron spin quantum plasmas - Ferromagnetism as a relaxed state</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., sep. 2013, In: Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 377, 21-22, p. 1430-1433.

Self-modulation of nonlinear Alfvén waves in a strongly magnetized relativistic electron-positron plasma</>

López, R., Asenjo, F., Muñoz, V., Chian, A. & Valdivia, J., ago. 2013, In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 88, 2.

Generating vorticity and magnetic fields in plasmas in general relativity</>

Asenjo, F., Mahajan, S. & Qadir, A., feb. 2013, In: Physics of Plasmas, 20, 2.

Spin-gradient-driven light amplification in a quantum plasma</>

Braun, S., Asenjo, F. & Mahajan, S., oct. 2012, In: Physical Review Letters, 109, 17.

Parametric decays in relativistic magnetized electron-positron plasmas with relativistic temperatures</>

López, R., Asenjo, F., Muñoz, V. & Alejandro Valdivia, J., ago. 2012, In: Physics of Plasmas, 19, 8.

Semi-relativistic effects in spin-1/2 quantum plasmas</>

Asenjo, F., Zamanian, J., Marklund, M., Brodin, G. & Johansson, P., jul. 2012, In: New Journal of Physics, 14.

The quantum effects of the spin and the Bohm potential in the oblique propagation of magnetosonic waves</>

Asenjo, F., jul. 2012, In: Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 376, 36, p. 2496-2500.

Self-modulation of nonlinear waves in a weakly magnetized relativistic electron-positron plasma with temperature</>

Asenjo, F., Borotto, F., Chian, A., Muñoz, V., Valdivia, J. & Rempel, E., abr. 2012, In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 85, 4.

Envelope solitons in a weakly magnetized electron-positron plasma with relativistic temperature</>

Asenjo, F., Borotto, F., Chian, A., Muñoz, V., Valdivia, J. & Rempel, E., 2012.

Vortical dynamics of spinning quantum plasmas</>

Mahajan, S. & Asenjo, F., nov. 2011, In: Physical Review Letters, 107, 19.

A hydrodynamical model for relativistic spin quantum plasmas</>

Asenjo, F., Muoz, V., Valdivia, J. & Mahajan, S., ene. 2011, In: Physics of Plasmas, 18, 1.

Line shapes in infrared absorption by solids and by atomic or molecular species embedded in solids</>

Lagos, M., Asenjo, F., Hauyón, R., Pastén, D. & Moya, P., jul. 2010, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114, 27, p. 7353-7358.

Relativistic mass and charge of photons in thermal plasmas through electromagnetic field quantization</>

Asenjo, F., Muñoz, V. & Valdivia, J., may. 2010, In: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 81, 5.

Spin damping correction to electrostatic modes in kinetic plasma theory</>

Asenjo, F., dic. 2009, In: Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 373, 48, p. 4460-4463.

Circularly polarized wave propagation in magnetofluid dynamics for relativistic electron-positron plasmas</>

Asenjo, F., Muoz, V., Valdivia, J. & Hada, T., 2009, In: Physics of Plasmas, 16, 12.

Line shapes of narrow optical bands</>

Lagos, M., Asenjo, F., Hauyón, R., Pastén, D., González, H., Henríquez, R. & Troncoso, R., mar. 2008, In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 77, 10.

Optimal control in a noisy system</>

Asenjo, F., Toledo, B., Muoz, V., Rogan, J. & Valdivia, J., 2008, In: Chaos, 18, 3.