Dr. Francisco Zaera
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, USA
Francisco Zaera received his Licenciate and PhD degrees from the Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela (1979) and the University of California, Berkeley, USA (1984), respectively. He was an Assistant Chemist at the National Synchrotron Light Source of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1984 until 1986, after which he joined the University of California, Riverside, where he presently is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the UCR Center for Catalysis. Zaera is also a Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and serves in the editorial board of several other journals.He has received the Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Program Award (1994, 1995), the ACS George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry (2001), the North American Catalysis Society Paul H. Emmett Award (2003), a Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists, and the ACS Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry (2008), and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Vacuum Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His research interests are in surface and materials chemistry and in heterogeneous catalysis.