Héctor Luis Mancini, Professor Emeritus of the School of Sciences, passes away

Héctor Luis Mancini, Professor Emeritus of the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra, has died in Pamplona. He was 80 years old, married and father of three children.

Mancini (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1945), graduated as an electronics expert (1968) and subsequently graduated as an electronics engineer from the University of Buenos Aires (1978). In 1992, he obtained a degree scroll in Telecommunications Engineering (by validation in Spain). Two years later, he received his PhD in Physics from the University of Navarra.

Before starting his professional career at the University of Navarra, he worked at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Research of the Argentine Armed Forces (1969-1990); he was Associate Professor at the National Technological University of Argentina (1982-1986) and researcher at the National committee for Scientific Research (CONICET). In 1991, he met Professor Carlos Pérez García of the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra, who encouraged him to come to Pamplona to start the Physics and Applied Mathematics department , of which he was Professor, Deputy Director and director from 1993 to 2006. He also directed the group of Science, Reason and Faith, between 2007 and 2010.

In October 2013 he taught his last class at the School of Science and was named Professor Emeritus.

Diego Maza, Full Professor of Physics and current director of the Physics and Applied Mathematics department , remembers Professor Mancini as his mentor and friend. "I had the privilege of learning at his side a large issue of experimental techniques in a laboratory that, with hardly any resources, was transformed into something infinitely larger with his creativity and ingenuity. That is how he built, and helped us build, this reality that today is called the department of Physics and Applied Mathematics," he recalls. "Of the hours we spent together in a laboratory, it is impossible to forget those times when, over a good cup of mate, we discussed anything that made life pleasant. Today his loss saddens us, but it also encourages us to work even harder to honor his bequest and report.