Diego Castano, Ph.D.

NSU's Halmos College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry and Physics
https://works.bepress.com/diego-castano/about/

Honors Engagement

• Attends honors events
• Guest speaker in HONR 1000N Genetics and Genealogy

 Research Focus

• Theoretical Particle Physics

Education

• B.S., University of Miami
• M.S., University of Miami
• Ph.D., University of Florida

Diego Castano is a theoretical physicist who has researched and published in the area of particle physics. His collaborative publication, “Renormalization Group Study of the Standard Model and its Extensions,” has been cited more than 400 times in peer-reviewed journals. Castano presented a lecture on his personal experiences in genetic genealogy as part of the honors seminar Genetics and Genealogy, and he presented a lecture on rocketry and launched a model rocket at an Honors College event.