José Zagal Moya

Jose H. Zagal Moya (born in Santiago de Chile, December 19, 1949) is a Chilean scientist educated at the University of Chile with postgraduate training in the United States of America. At present he is full professor, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Ph.D. in chemistry Case Western Reserve University, US (1978) and was postdoctoral fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, in 1982. 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

Prizes and distinctions

He was awarded by the President of Chile the Presidential Chair in Science in 1996 by a Committee chaired by a Nobel Prize in Chemistry Rudolph Marcus and including Physics Nobel Laureate David Gross and received the Silver Medal “University Merit” in 1998 and the Gold Medal in 2002 and the Manuel Bulnes Medal in 2013. He was distinguished by Conicyt with “Fondecyt Diploma” for being awarded more than 10 consecutive research grants without rejects in 2012. 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. In 2014 he received the Dr. Alberto Zanlungo Prize. He has also been distinguished by international scientific societies. He received the The Fellow Medal from the International Society of Electrochemistry and the Fellow Medal from The Electrochemical Society both in 2014.

Publications

He has published over 200 papers, 6 book chapters and 3 patents. H impact factor= 31 (Web of Science), H = 35 (Scopus) and H= 39 (Google Scholar) with more 5093 citations. He is coauthor of two books and is preparing a third one. He has presented more than 290 papers in national and international meetings, including some plenary and invited lectures and keynotes.

Books

• N4 Macrocyclic Metal Complexes. J.H. ZAGAL, F. Bedioui, J.P. Dodelet (Eds), Springer New York ( 2006).
• Electroquímica: voltametrías sobre electrodo sólido. Fethi Bedioui, Silvia Gutiérrez Granados, Alejandro Alatorre Ordaz y J.H. ZAGAL, Sello Editorial Usach, (2009).

Editorial boards

He has been involved in many editorial boards of scientific journals. He was member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry (1988-2010), Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society (1984-2007) and Electrocatalysis (2010-2015) and is presently member of the Editorial Board of several international publications: Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Springer), International Journal of Electrochemistry (Hindawi), Electrochemistry Communications (Elsevier), Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, Electrochemical Energy Technology (De Goutyer)and Chimica Nova