OMAR ALBERTO ORMACHEA MUÑOZ, PH.D.
Full Teacher
Omar Ormachea holds a PhD in Laser Physics and Spectroscopy (2004) from Belarusian State University (BSU), Belarus. He completed a postdoctoral stay at the same university from 2004 to 2006, finishing his BSc and MSc studies in Physics and Mathematics at BSU in 1996. Currently, he is a Full Professor and the director of the Center for Optical Research and Energies at the Private University of Bolivia (UPB). He was the head of the Electronics and Telecommunications program (UPB) from 2009 to 2022, successfully completing his leadership with the accreditation of the program by Arcu-Sur of MERCOSUR in 2019. Since 2009, he has been a member of the international team and facilitator of the ALOP (Active Learning in Optics and Photonics) team of UNESCO, and from 2001 to 2006, he was an Associate Researcher at BSU in the Non-Linear Optics Laboratory. He has won multiple national awards and recognitions (13 in total); 4 first places, 2 second places, and 2 honorable mentions in the Plurinational Science and Technology Award, as well as the “Alejo Calatayud” distinction, the bicentennial medal of Cochabamba 2010, for scientific merit awarded by the Honorable Municipal Council of Cochabamba, among other awards and recognitions. He designed and built Bolivia's first high-power laser in 2007, has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals, participated in over 60 conferences (national and international) as a speaker, and as a result of applied research activities, he is a co-author of the first patent from UPB and the first technological patent from Bolivia in 2023.
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OMAR ALBERTO ORMACHEA MUÑOZ, PH.D.
Full Teacher
Omar Ormachea holds a PhD in Laser Physics and Spectroscopy (2004) from Belarusian State University (BSU), Belarus. He completed a postdoctoral stay at the same university from 2004 to 2006, finishing his BSc and MSc studies in Physics and Mathematics at BSU in 1996. Currently, he is a Full Professor and the director of the Center for Optical Research and Energies at the Private University of Bolivia (UPB). He was the head of the Electronics and Telecommunications program (UPB) from 2009 to 2022, successfully completing his leadership with the accreditation of the program by Arcu-Sur of MERCOSUR in 2019. Since 2009, he has been a member of the international team and facilitator of the ALOP (Active Learning in Optics and Photonics) team of UNESCO, and from 2001 to 2006, he was an Associate Researcher at BSU in the Non-Linear Optics Laboratory. He has won multiple national awards and recognitions (13 in total); 4 first places, 2 second places, and 2 honorable mentions in the Plurinational Science and Technology Award, as well as the “Alejo Calatayud” distinction, the bicentennial medal of Cochabamba 2010, for scientific merit awarded by the Honorable Municipal Council of Cochabamba, among other awards and recognitions. He designed and built Bolivia's first high-power laser in 2007, has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals, participated in over 60 conferences (national and international) as a speaker, and as a result of applied research activities, he is a co-author of the first patent from UPB and the first technological patent from Bolivia in 2023.
Intellectual Production
OMAR ALBERTO ORMACHEA MUÑOZ, PH.D.
Full Teacher
Omar Ormachea holds a PhD in Laser Physics and Spectroscopy (2004) from Belarusian State University (BSU), Belarus. He completed a postdoctoral stay at the same university from 2004 to 2006, finishing his BSc and MSc studies in Physics and Mathematics at BSU in 1996. Currently, he is a Full Professor and the director of the Center for Optical Research and Energies at the Private University of Bolivia (UPB). He was the head of the Electronics and Telecommunications program (UPB) from 2009 to 2022, successfully completing his leadership with the accreditation of the program by Arcu-Sur of MERCOSUR in 2019. Since 2009, he has been a member of the international team and facilitator of the ALOP (Active Learning in Optics and Photonics) team of UNESCO, and from 2001 to 2006, he was an Associate Researcher at BSU in the Non-Linear Optics Laboratory. He has won multiple national awards and recognitions (13 in total); 4 first places, 2 second places, and 2 honorable mentions in the Plurinational Science and Technology Award, as well as the “Alejo Calatayud” distinction, the bicentennial medal of Cochabamba 2010, for scientific merit awarded by the Honorable Municipal Council of Cochabamba, among other awards and recognitions. He designed and built Bolivia's first high-power laser in 2007, has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals, participated in over 60 conferences (national and international) as a speaker, and as a result of applied research activities, he is a co-author of the first patent from UPB and the first technological patent from Bolivia in 2023.



















