José Rodríguez Pérez is a Chilean engineer and

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at the

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Early life and education

Rodríguez was born in

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. He received the degrees of Technician in Electronics and Electrical Engineer at the Federico Santa María Technical University (USM) in 1977 and his

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in electrical engineering at the

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in 1985. Since 1977 he is working at USM where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electronical Engineering.

Career

In 1996, during his sabbatical leave, Rodríguez Pérez was responsible for Mining Division of

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division in

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, Chile. From 2004 to 2005, he was the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, and since 2005, he has also been the Rector at the Federico Santa María Technical University. From 2005 to 2008 Dr. Rodríguez's research group was recognized as one of the two Centers of Excellence in Engineering in Chile. Since 2002, José Rodríguez Pérez was an associate editor of the ''IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics'' and ''IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics''. In 2015, he was appointed rector of the

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. He was previously professor of electrical engineering at the Federico Santa María Technical University, as well as its rector for the periods 2005-2006 (Interim) and 2006-2010 (voted by the University community).

Honors

In 2014 he received Chile's National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technologies. The same year, he was also ranked by the World Most Influential Scientific Minds, a

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affiliate, as one of 200 highly cited researchers.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez, Jose Rodriguez Chilean engineers Living people Electrical engineers University of Erlangen–Nuremberg alumni Academic staff of the Andrés Bello National University People from Valdivia Year of birth missing (living people)