José A. Rodriguez
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“My favorite place on earth is Canaima National Park in Venezuela. If I were not a scientist, I would be a historian or a writer ...” This and more about José A. Rodriguez can be found on page 4652.
José A. Rodriguez
The author presented on this page has published more than 10 articles in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years, most recently:
“Dry Reforming of Methane on a Highly-Active Ni-CeO2 Catalyst: Effects of Metal-Support Interactions on C−H Bond Breaking”: Z. Liu et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7455; Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 7581.
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- Date of birth:
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- December 2, 1959
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- Positions:
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- Group Leader, Catalysis Group, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook
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- E-mail:
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- [email protected]
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- Homepage:
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- https://www.bnl.gov/chemistry/bio/RodriguezJose.asp
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- Education:
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- 1982 BS degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas 1988 PhD with Professor Charles T. Campbell, Indiana University, Bloomington 1989–1990 Postdoctoral position with Professor D. Wayne Goodman, Texas A&M University
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- Awards:
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- 2007 HENAAC Award for Technical Achievements (HENAAC: Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference)
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- Current research interests:
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- Catalysis and surface science; synthesis and study of novel catalysts useful for the generation and modification of clean fuels; development of synchrotron-based techniques for the in situ characterization of catalysts
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- Hobbies:
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- Literature, photography, films
My favorite place on earth is Canaima National Park in Venezuela.
If I were not a scientist, I would be a historian or a writer.
The most important thing I learned from my parents is you can dream, but you must work hard to achieve your dreams.
My most exciting discovery to date has been to identify the effects of the metal–oxide interface in the activation of highly stable molecules such as CO2 and CH4.
The best advice I have ever been given is go and get a doctoral degree in chemistry.
The worst advice I have ever been given was to sell my collection of old vinyl records.
I can never resist a good mystery.
My favorite author (fiction) is Gabriel García Márquez and his novel One hundred Years of Solitude.
My top three films of all time are The Third Man, Blade Runner, and Pulp Fiction.
My favorite food is paella (a Spanish dish).
My favorite song is Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin).
My favorite quote is “What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean” (Isaac Newton).
My 5 top papers:
): Intrinsic Activity and Importance of Support Interactions”: 
