Present Positions
In information technology : Founder and President - Data Transport Systems, a 20-year old IT consultancy firm with activities in New York, Manila, and Geneva, since 1986 to present, to retire in 2002. The company has served several United Nations agencies like WHO, ITU, UNICEF, UNIDO, UNDP, WFP, and other non-profit international organizations in Vienna, Copenhagen, Geneva and New York using small and large distributed databases
In academe and research –Director, Center for Fluid Dynamics (Founded by World
Laboratory, Lausanne)
Member:
- World Federation of Scientists, Lausanne, Switzerland, Philippine and Southeast Asian Representative
- Philippine Physics Society, Manila
- American Physical Society, USA
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA
Some key appointments:
- Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton – 1995;
- University of the Philippines – intermittently from 1959 to present;
- Towson State University – 1970-1973;
- Manager, Software Development, Citicorp -1974;
- City University of New York – 1974-1982;
- short term consultancies with Goldmann Sachs, Colgate, Citibank, Major League Baseball – 1982 -1985
Guest appointments in:
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Leiden University, Montana State University, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Over 36 refereed publications in international journals: Physica A (Holland), Physica D (Holland), Physical Review A and E (USA), JETP Letters (Russia), Physical Review Letters (USA), Physics Letters (Holland), Il Nuovo Cimento (Italy), Astronomy and Astrophysics (Holland), all papers catalogued by INSPEC
Books edited:
H.Y. Chiu and A. Muriel, Stellar Dynamics, MIT Press 1970, Galactic Astronomy , Vols. I and II, Gordon and Breach, New York 1970
Responsible for two major theoretical contributions in physics:
Time evolution of the one dimensional gravitational gas, published in several papers in Astronomy and Theoretical origin of the onset of turbulence, published in Physica D, JETP Letters, and several conference proceedings and in econophysics:
Theoretical and practical model for foreign currency trading, used by Data Transport Systems, and under evaluation by UBS Warburg, Geneva, trading arm of Union Bank of Switzerland
- Included in American Men and Women of Science, 1970 Marquis’ Whos Who Scholarships and awards Jaycees Outstanding Filipino Award 1999
- UPAA in the US - University of the Philippines Achievement Award
- Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship
- All Nations Women’s Group Scholarship
- Fulbright Scholarship
- Italian Government Scholarship
- In preparation – turbulence control using ultrasound
Residences:
- 347 East 62nd St, New York, NY 10021 USA, Tel. 001-212-888-6931
- rue de la Vallee, 2, Geneva 1204, Switzerland, Tel. 0041-22-310-1229
Email address: amuriel@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de