About

Alejandro E. Nava is a Professor of Religious Studies who received his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago in Religious Studies. Since joining the University of Arizona faculty in 1999, he has developed several courses including 'Love and World Religions,' 'The Question of God,' 'Religion and Culture in the Southwest,' 'Rap, Culture, and God,' and 'Religion in Latin America.' His scholarly work includes authorship of books such as 'The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutiérrez: Reflections on the Mystery and Hiddenness of God,' 'Wonder and Exile in the New World,' and 'In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature and Religion.' His research and teaching focus on the intersections of religion, culture, and identity, with particular attention to popular culture, race, class, gender, and spirituality in African-American and Latin@ communities.

Research topics

• Condensed matter physics
• Mathematics
• Surgery
• Medical education
• Chemistry
• Engineering
• General surgery
• Quantum mechanics
• Internal medicine
• Environmental science
• Theoretical physics
• Medicine
• Waste management
• Physics

Selected publications

• Global disparities in surgeons’ workloads, academic engagement and rest periods: the on-calL shIft fOr geNEral SurgeonS (LIONESS) study

  Updates in Surgery · 2024 · 5 citations

  • Medicine
  • General surgery
  • Surgery

  v. 28). The survey received a total of 1.046 responses (65.4%). Over 78.0% of responders came from Europe, 65.1% came from a general surgery unit; 92.8% of European and 87.5% of North American respondents were involved in research, compared to 71.7% in Africa. Europe led in publishing research studies (6.6 ± 8.6 yearly). Teaching involvement was high in North America (100%) and Africa (91.7%). Surgeons reported an average of 6.7 ± 4.9 on-call shifts per month, with European and North American surgeons experiencing 6.5 ± 4.9 and 7.8 ± 4.1 on-calls monthly, respectively. African surgeons had the highest on-call frequency (8.7 ± 6.1). Post-on-call, only 35.1% of respondents received a day off. Europeans were most likely (40%) to have a day off, while African surgeons were least likely (6.7%). On the adjusted multivariable analysis HDI (Human Development Index) (aOR 1.993) hospital capacity > 400 beds (aOR 2.423), working in a specialty surgery unit (aOR 2.087), and making the on-call in-house (aOR 5.446), significantly predicted the likelihood of having a day off after an on-call shift. Our study revealed critical insights into the disparities in workload, access to research, and professional opportunities for surgeons across different continents, underscored by the HDI.

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• Turning CO2 from fuel combustion into e-Fuel? Consider alternative pathways

  Energy Conversion and Management · 2023 · 42 citations

  • Waste management
  • Environmental science
  • Engineering
  DOI

• Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in the topological Kondo model

  Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2022 · 33 citations

  • Physics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Theoretical physics

  We study the thermal transport through a Majorana island connected to multiple external quantum wires. In the presence of a large charging energy, we find that the Wiedemann-Franz law is nontrivially violated at low temperature, contrarily to what happens for the overscreened Kondo effect and for nontopological junctions. For three wires, we find that the Lorenz ratio is rescaled by a universal factor $2/3$ and we show that this behavior is due to the presence of localized Majorana modes on the island.

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Frequent coauthors

• Gaetano Thiene

  CTO Hospital

  199 shared

• Barbara Bauce

  University of Padua

  165 shared

• Cristina Basso

  Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova

  161 shared

• Domenico Corrado

  University of Padua

  106 shared

• Domenico Giuliano

  Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza

  101 shared

• Alessandra Rampazzo

  University of Padua

  74 shared

• G Fontaine

  73 shared

• William J. McKenna

  University College London

  66 shared

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