Dr. Héctor Jorquera

Héctor Jorquera is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile at Santiago, Chile. He is also a research associate at Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, CEDEUS (www.cedeus.cl). Education: Chemical Engineer, Universidad de Chile, 1987; MSc. Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, 1987; PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, 1991. Assistant Professor: 1992-1998; Associate Professor: 1998-2008; Professor: 2008- Resaerch Interests: numerical methods in chemical engineering, air quality modeling and monitoring, meteorological modeling, receptor modeling of ambient particulate matter. Member, American Association fo Aerosol Research since 2007. Awards: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 1990-91. Visiting Summer Scholar, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, EE. UU., 1992 and 1993. Visiting Profesor, Center for Global and Regional Enviornmental Research (CGRER), University of Iowa, 2000. Luksic Visiting Scholar, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, EE. UU., 2006-2007. Visiting Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, EE. UU. Fall 2016.