Jose H. Zagal Moya is a Chilean scientist educated at the University of Chile with postgraduate training in the United States of America.
Education
At present he is full professor, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry Case Western Reserve University, United States (1978) and was postdoctoral fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, in 1982.
Career
He has contributed in the area of electrocatalysis, electrodes modified with metal macrocyclics, electrochemistry of biological molecules, the catalysis of the reduction of molecualr oxygen and many other reactions of relevance, conductive polymers, electrochemical sensors and in pioneering work in the establishment of non-linear correlations between thermodynamic properties of molecular catalysts and their electrochemical reactivity. These contributions are essential in the development of non-precious metal catalysts for energy conversion devices and electrochemical sensors. He also has contributed in the field of corrosion, conductive polymers and his well-known volcano correlations for the electrocatalytic properties of surface-confined molecular catalysts.
Membership
He was appointed by the President of Chile and the Minister of Education, Member of the Superior Council of Research of Conicyt for the period 2010–2013.