Felipe Veloso was born in Santiago, Chile in 1979. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Physics in 2002 and 2008 respectively from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded by the university with an Honorific Mention of Excellence that year. During 2009, he was Postdoctoral Associate on the Thermonuclear Plasma Department of the Comision Chilena de Energia Nuclear; where he is working as Researcher since 2010. His interests include teaching and outreach in physics; and research related to dense transient plasmas; including laser-produced plasmas, plasma focus, gas embedded and wire arrays Z-pinches; together with diagnostics techniques such as refractive optics and electrical probing techniques.

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