What is LINX?

LINX

It is the first laboratory in the country to put space instrumentation in the stratosphere and collaborates and develops instrumentation in conjunction with international space agencies. It will also be the first to put systems entirely designed and built in México into space. LINX will produce the first mexican mission to land on the lunar surface.

Head of Space Instrumentation Laboratory, LINX-ICN-UNAM

He has more than 200 publications, including indexed articles and extensive articles presented in national and international academic forums, which have been cited more than 3500 times. He has been a guest editor of Experimental Astronomy and editor of the journal High Energy Physics.

In the training of human resources, he has supervised 4 doctoral theses and 9 master’s theses, in addition to having supervised postdoctoral stays. In terms of teaching, he has taught more than 40 courses at the undergraduate and doctoral levels, and has given more than 250 lectures.

Gustavo Medina Tanco PhD

Creator and current Head of the LINX Space Instrumentation Laboratory, at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the UNAM, Mexico. He holds a degree in Physics from the National University of Tucumán (Argentina) and a PhD in Science from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). He did a couple of postdoctoral stays at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the University of Leeds.

Projects in which Dr. Medina collaborates in the laboratory:

Collaboration with the ALICE experiment at the LHC, with the aim of studying matter in extreme conditions of high temperature and density, by means of heavy ion collisions.
In collaboration with professors from the National Preparatory School of the UNAM, developing a cosmic ray detection kit for the teaching of high energy physics at the high school level.
He is working on the development of a prototype detector for antineutrinos produced by nuclear reactors. It consists of a segmented volume of scintillator plastics wrapped in paper with gadolinium, coupled to photomultiplier tubes.
Space Instrumentation Group: dedicated to the development of scientific instrumentation, both stratospheric and orbital.

Phone:

(+52) 55-5623-3389

email:

gmtanco@nucleares.unam.mx

Our purpose

Development of high-impact space projects in engineering and basic and applied sciences, with a strong component of human resources training in the Mexican space sector.

Nuestro objetivo

Desarrollo de proyectos espaciales de alto impacto en ingeniería y ciencias básicas y aplicadas, con una fuerte componente de formación de recursos humanos en el sector espacial mexicano.

Vision

LINX is an academic, multidisciplinary, multidimensional laboratory that, through its research and its projects, is committed to training human resources, generating technical knowledge and creating the specific infrastructure that the country needs for its effective participation in the exploration of outer space, both for scientific, technological or social purposes.

Mission

LINX aims to contribute to society, information, innovation, descriptive transformation and excellence, relying on technology and science, but without neglecting the human, inspiring its collaborators to be better professionals, people and knowledge contributors; This commitment is firm to the university community, society and the country.