text: He was awarded by the President of Chile, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle 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. He 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 still remains unbeaten in Fondecyt.  He has been awarded two Milenium Projects as Alternative Responsible Scientist and has participated in many other associative research projects in Chile and abroad.  He was appointed by the President of Chile Sebastian Piñera Echeñique 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 received several distinctions from international scientific societies. He was appointed Fellow by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) of the UK in 2018. He became a Member of the RSC in 2017.  He received the Fellow Medal from the International Society of Electrochemistry based in Europe and the Fellow Medal from the US-based Electrochemical Society (ECS) both in 2014.  This year he was incorporated as an Active Member to the Academy of Sciences of Latin America (ACAL) and became an Emeritus Member of The Electrochemical Society of the United States of America.  He created the Chilean Secretary of ISE in 2003 and was his first chilean representative. He also created the Chile Section of ECS in 2011 and is presently its Chairman.  He was a co-founder of the Chilean Society of Carbonaceous Materials and is presently its President.  He is also the President of the Iberoamerican Chemical Society.