Studies of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Catholic University of Santiago, graduated 1974 with honors.

1974-1975: associated research fellow at the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the University of Chile at Santiago.
Research area: Adsorption Phenomena and Thermodynamics of Surfaces.

October 1975: departure to Germany with a grant of the German Government (DAAD).

1976-1981: Ph.D. research work on spectroscopy with circularly polarized light of chiral molecules oriented in a liquid crystal matrix at the Chemistry Department of the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

January-March 1980 Winter School on Laser Spectroscopy at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Triest, Italy with a grant of the United Nations.

September 1981: Ph.D. graduation (magna cum laude)

1981-1982 Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. Research areas: new materials for optical disks, site-selection spectroscopy of molecules isolated in low-temperature matrices, MCD of oriented molecules

1983-1986: Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Research areas: Polarization spectroscopy of oriented systems, laser spectroscopy of chiral molecules, polarization fluorescence spectroscopy, semi-empirical and ab initio MO calculations.

April-May 1985: Summer School on Molecular Dynamics at the Institute von Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

June 1986: joined Ciba-Geigy Ltd at the production site of Grenzach, Germany.

1986-1989: Plant Chemist in the areas of production and quality assurance of textile and paper dyes, pigments and intermediates.

1990-1992: Leader of the Quality Assurance Group at the Dyes Production Facility of Ciba-Geigy Ltd at St. Gabriel, Louisiana, U.S.A.

1993-1995: Chemist in Production and Process Development of dyes and optical brighteners at the Ciba Ltd. production site of Grenzach, Germany.

1996-2000: Leader of the Color and Whiteness Assessment Group of Ciba Specialty Chemicals at Grenzach, Germany.

Since February 2001: He founded and acts currently as Managing Director of Axiphos GmbH, a company dedicated to Marketing, Trading and Consulting in the areas of Color, Color Formulation and Color Control. Axiphos is aiming to Internet-based technical support in the areas of Color and Whiteness.

Member of the Bunsengesellschaft for Physical-Chemistry, of the Inter-Society Color Council and of the German Society of Color Science (DfwG).
Member as expert for optical properties in working committees of ISO, Tappi and DIN.
Biography appeared in 1992 and 1994 Who is Who in the World.
Lecturer at the Hohenstein Academy, Germany.
Editor of Chemindustry.com for the area Dyes & Pigments.

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