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Robert Richard Díaz-Morales

Chemistry graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, with research experience in materials science, fuel cells, and analytical chemistry. Currently working at iFyber LLC as a R&D Scientists.

Headline: Scientist
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Biotech, Education, Food and Drink, Nanotech
Skills: C/C++, Chemical Engineering, Databases, English, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Spanish
Location: Puerto Rico
Groups: Enterprize 2008 [INACTIVE], Enterprize 2009 [INACTIVE], [INACTIVE] EnterPRize 2010
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities
Schools: University of Puerto Rico System

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: iFyber LLC
Position: R&D Scientists
Time period: June 2010 - Present

Employer: Wyerth-Pharmaceuticals
Position: Analytical Development Scientist
Time period: September 2006 - Present
Description: ▪ Collaborated on several multi-party projects toward the development and validation of analytical methods for the determination of different components in pharmaceutical matrixes.
▪ Coordinated analytical method validation (verification and transfer) of compendial and non compendial methods.
▪ Authored annual product reviews, analytical method validation protocols and technical reports, and laboratory investigation reports.
▪ Performed statistical evaluation of laboratory data for analytical method validation, technology transfer, and annual product review reports.
▪ Developed several special test studies for the assessment, explanation, and remediation of laboratory atypical events.

Employer: Dr. Osvaldo Rosario Group, University of Puerto Rico
Position: Basic and Applied Research Experience
Time period: March 2005 - November 2005
Description: ▪ Chemical characterization of environmental samples using GC/MS.
▪ Develop a solid-phase micro extraction (SPME) sampling technique for the rapid quantification of fatty acids in human sebum thru GC-MS
▪ Completed a comparative study of the fatty acids profile in human fingerprints.

Employer: Dr. Yasuyuki Ishikawa Group, University of Puerto Rico
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Time period: November 2004 - April 2005
Description: ▪ First principles, quantum chemical, studies of H2O dissociation and OH + CO reactions on Pt/Ru nanosized cluster in gas phase and humidified environments.
▪ Refocused the on going H2O dissociation study and implemented a different methodo-logy. New results agreed and expanded over published experimental and theoretical data.
▪ Corrected a geometrical limitation on the CO combination with OH over a Ru adatom on a Pt surface which halved the activation barrier to expected values.

Employer: Fuel Cell Catalysis Lab, NASA/UPR Center for Nanoscale Materials
Position: Research Assistant
Time period: August 2002 - April 2004
Description: ▪ Coordinated and performed site and instrumentation setup to establish a research laboratory at a former educational laboratory.
▪ Electrochemical and physicochemical characterization (XRD, XPS) of catalytic bimetallic alloys for fuel cells.
▪ Identified a non uniform reactant flow in a novel electrochemical reactor (fuel cell).
▪ Designed the experimental setup for the synthesis of chalcogenide electrocatalysts.
▪ Established a band dispersion mechanism to explain the stretching frequencies of CO linearly bound to Pt and PtRu nanoclusters.

Employer: Ballistic and Weapons Concepts, U. S. Army Research Lab
Position: HACU/Army Student Fellow
Time period: May 2001 - July 2001
Description: ▪ Computational studies of CO chemisorption on Fe surfaces or nanoclusters.
▪ Created shell scripting tools to migrate an in house chemical dynamics simulation code to massive parallel supercomputer hardware and its queue system software.

Employer: Dr. Stephen R. Leone’s Group, University of Colorado
Position: NSF-REU Fellow
Time period: May 2000 - July 2000
Description: ▪ Studies on photofragmentation dynamics and radical reaction kinetics, using time-resolved Fourier transform infrared emission after laser excitation.

Employer: Dr. Brad R. Weiner Group, University of Puerto Rico
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Time period: December 1998 - November 2001
Description: ▪ Development and design of the experimental setup for the laser initiated HNSO photodissociation experiments.
▪ Theoretical calculations using G-2 method theory on Gaussian98.

EDUCATION

University: University of Puerto Rico System
Time period: 2005
Degree: Chemistry, MSc

University: University of Puerto Rico System
Time period: 2002
Degree: Chemistry, BSc

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: Ishikawa, Y; Diaz-Morales, RR; Perez, A; et al.
A density-functional study of the energetics of H2O dissociation on bimetallic Pt/Ru nanoclusters
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 411 (4-6): 404-410 AUG 15 2005

Dimakis, N; Iddir, H; Diaz-Morales, RR; et al.
A band dispersion mechanism for Pt alloy compositional tuning of linear bound CO stretching frequencies
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 109 (5): 1839-1848 FEB 10 2005

Diaz-Morales, RR; Liu, RX; Fachini, E; et al.
XRD and XPS analysis of as-prepared and conditioned DMFC array membrane electrode assemblies
JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 151 (9): A1314-A1318 2004

Smotkin, ES; Diaz-Morales, RR
New electrocatalysts by combinatorial methods
ANNUAL REVIEW OF MATERIALS RESEARCH, 33: 557-579 2003

Marcy, TP; Diaz, RR; Heard, D; et al.
Theoretical and experimental investigation of the dynamics of the production of CO from the CH3+O and CD3+O reactions
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 105 (36): 8361-8369 SEP 13 2001
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