Dr. Sebastián Rocha Mella is the fifth graduate of the Doctoral Program in Engineering Sciences with specialization in Bioprocesses of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO). In his doctoral thesis, he worked on finding a sustainable and environmentally friendly solution to the use of plastics.

This new Center is part of the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the Universidad de La Frontera. It will allow contributing to society, research and the development of new technological tools that will have an impact on people’s health.

Thanks to platforms such as Zoom, Dr. Patricio Valenzuela, who is currently living in Sweden, was able to teach an elective subject for the Civil Electrical Engineering and Civil Electronical Engineering students of the Universidad de La Frontera in Chile.

This is the second time that both journals achieved to get the same fund, which aims at optimizing the editorial process and improving the international visibility of each one of them. In this call, the project was in first place at the national level among the selected projects.

Dr. Rodolfo Figueroa, the director of the Center for Medical Physics and Engineering of the Universidad de la Frontera, was distinguished as VEBLEO-Fellow, a recognition awarded by international scientific peers for his contribution to innovation.

The Universidad de La Frontera starts this year with 36 new FONDECYT (“Chilean National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development”) Projects (14 Regular, 10 Initiation in Research, and 12 Post-Doctoral Projects).