University of California, Riverside, USA
Prof. Francisco Zaera is presently the Hartland H. Schmidt Founder’s Chair and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, a Cooperative Faculty Member of the Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, a Participating Faculty of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, the Director of the UCR Center for Catalysis, and the Assistant Director for XPS of the UCR Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation Facility. He was also until recently Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Zaera has authored approximately 450 articles in scientific publications, which have been cited more than 25,000 times (according to Google Scholar; H index = 86), and has received several international awards, including the George A. Olah, Arthur W. Adamson, and Inaugural Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis Awards of the American Chemical Society, the North American Catalysis Society Paul H. Emmett Award, a Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists, and the 2021 UC Riverside Faculty Research Lecturer Award. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Vacuum Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.