Juan Matos completed his doctorate in Surface Physics and Chemistry through the Franco-Venezuelan Postgraduate Cooperation Program between the Central School of Lyon (France) and the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in 1999, studying the "Influence of carbon materials in heterogeneous photocatalytic reactions and solar nanotechnology”. He is co-founder and director of the Chilean Association of Carbon Materials, and co-founder of the Latin American Carbon Federation, of which he was its President (2016–2018). He has been the Director (2017–2021) of the Franco–Chilean Network of Valuation of Biochar for Applications in Energy and Environmental Remediation. From 2015 to 2019, he was a Professor of the Postgraduate Energy and the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the University of Concepción (UdeC), and Researcher of the Technological Development Unit (UDT) of said university. In 2020, he moved to the Autonomous University of Chile, and as of August 2023, he is part of the Ibero-American Institute for Sustainable Development at the Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Environment, where he is a Full Professor and Senior Academician.