Sebastian Bahamonde

Senior Research Fellow · Institute for Basic Science (IBS), CTPU-CGA · Daejeon, South Korea

Teaching, Mentoring & Outreach

My teaching experience includes PhD-level courses in gravity, undergraduate physics and mathematics courses, university outreach, and research mentoring of undergraduate, MSc and PhD students.

University teaching

University of Tartu

Teaching Fellow, 2021
PhD course: Selected Topics in the Theories of Gravity.

University College London

Demonstrator, 2014–2019
Teaching support and marking for Mathematics coursework during my PhD period.

Universidad de Los Lagos

Teaching Fellow, 2013–2014
Undergraduate Physics and Mathematics courses for Engineering students over three semesters.

Universidad Santo Tomás

Teaching Fellow, 2013
Physics teaching for Dentistry students in Puerto Montt, Chile.

At Universidad de Los Lagos I taught a total of eleven undergraduate courses, including Mechanical Physics, General Physics, Optics and Electromagnetism, Waves and Modern Physics, Multivariable Calculus, and Foundations of Mathematics and Physics I–II. The teaching load reached up to 24 contact hours per week.

Research mentoring and supervision

  • Matteo de Toma, MSc student, Université Paris-Saclay, 2026. MSc research internship at the Institute for Basic Science, host and supervisor.
  • Alicia Sancho Martinez, MSc student, Université Paris-Saclay, 2026. MSc research internship at the Institute for Basic Science, host and supervisor.
  • Jorge Maggiolo, PhD student, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, 2025. Research visit in Japan funded by ANID; host and supervisor during the research visit.
  • Joosep Lember, BSc student, University of Tartu, 2022. Research mentor during his BSc thesis project.

Outreach

University of Lincoln / University of Cambridge

Ogden–Isaac Physics Fellow, 2018–2019
Physics outreach and teaching activities in partnership with the Ogden Trust and Isaac Physics.

Physics Challenge

Organiser of Physics Challenge activities at the University of Lincoln, 2018–2019.