Rector José Rodríguez receives award for his outstanding scientific career

01/07/2013
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The prize Scopus Elsevier The award was given to eight Chilean scientists based on the number of publications and citations their work receives. Rector Rodríguez was honored in the field of Engineering and Earth Sciences.

The rector of the Federico Santa María Technical University, Dr. José Rodríguez, received the award Scopus 2013 along with seven other Chilean scientists working in different areas of knowledge.

This award is given to scientists affiliated with Chilean institutions who have the highest number of publications across the more than 20,500 titles in the Scopus database. It is also awarded to those whose work has received the most citations in recent years.

The award was presented in the presence of the president of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), José Miguel Aguilera, and executives from the publisher Elsevier.

Rector Rodríguez was recognized for his work in the field of Engineering and Earth Sciences. Rodríguez is a Civil Electrical Engineer from the Federico Santa María Technical University, where he earned his Master's degree and subsequently obtained his Doctorate in Engineering, specializing in electrical engineering, from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is currently the Rector of the Federico Santa María Technical University. He has received four awards for best article of the year in journals (2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011) and two awards for best doctoral thesis from the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2011 and 2013).

The other award winners were: Mark Phillips, from the Las Campanas Observatory for Physics and Astronomy; Nibaldo Inestrosa, from the Pontifical Catholic University, awarded for Health Sciences; Michael Seeger Pfeiffer, from the Federico Santa María Technical University (pictured with Rector Rodríguez), in Biology and Biotechnology; Diego Cosmelli, from the Pontifical Catholic University for his contribution in Social Sciences; Marcelo Arenas, from the Pontifical Catholic University for Computing; while Waldo Cerpa, from the Pontifical Catholic University and Sergio Torres, from the University of La Serena, received recognition in the area of young scientists.

*Photography: Federico Santa María Technical University.