Título/Appointment: Professor
Departamento/Department: Chemistry
Institución/Institution: UPR-Cayey
E-mail: Juan.santana6@upr.edu
Teléfono/Phone: (787) 738-2161, ext. 2077

 

Reseña/Biosketch:

Dr. Juan A. Santana is a Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. Dr. Santana began his education at the University of the Sacred Heart, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 2005. He continued his studies at the University of Puerto Rico, where he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2010.

Throughout his academic and professional career, Dr. Santana has worked at various institutions, holding positions in research and teaching. Between 2010 and 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Technical University of Munich. Later in 2012, he joined the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, as an associate specialist. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee between 2013 and 2015.

In 2015, Dr. Santana returned to Puerto Rico to join the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey as an assistant professor of chemistry. He is now Professor and the director of Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE, formerly known as RISE) at the same institution. His research experience covers areas such as Quantum Monte Carlo calculations, the application of computational methods to study complex materials, catalysis on surfaces, and the spectroscopy of highly ionized atoms. Additionally, his teaching interest focuses on general chemistry, physical chemistry, surface chemistry, and materials chemistry.

Perfiles en línea/Online profiles:

https://scholar.google.com.pr/citations?user=yxsq-RAAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan_Santana4

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2349-6312

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/?trk=onboarding-landing

Preparación Académica/Education:

Bachelor: University of the Sacred Heart, Puerto Rico, USA, B.S. in Chemistry (2005)

Doctoral: University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, USA, Ph.D. in Chemistry (2010)

Áreas de investigación/Research Interests:

  • Calculations of complex transition metal-oxides
  • Calculations of reaction mechanism for catalytic and electrocatalytic process
  • Calculations of highly ionized ion

Publicaciones/Publications:

  1. Density Functional Calculations of the Sequential Adsorption of Hydrogen on Single Atom and Small Clusters of Pd and Pt Supported on Au(111)., J. Melendez-Rivera and J. A. Santana Electrocatalysis 14, 325–331 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12678-022-00802-x
  2. Atomic Structures of Single-Layer Nanoislands of Ni, Cu, Rh, Pd, Ag, Ir, Pt, Au Supported on Au(111) from Density Functional Theory Calculations, Tania Fernandez-Felix, J. A. Santana Surface Science 2021, 716, 121960, 10.1016/j.susc.2021.121960
  3. Simulation of metal-supported metal-Nanoislands: A comparison of DFT methods, G Vázquez-Lizardi, L. Ruiz-Casanova, R. Cruz-Sánchez, J. A. Santana Surface Science 2021, 712, 121889
  4. Hydrogen Adsorption on Au-Supported Pt and Pd Nanoislands: A Computational Study of Hydrogen Coverage Effects, J. A. Santana, and J. Melendez-Rivera Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 5110−5115
  5. DFT Calculations of the Adsorption States of O2 on OH/H2O-Covered Pt(111), J. A. Santana, Electrocatalysis (2020), 11, 612.

Complete List of Published Work

https://scholar.google.com.pr/citations?user=yxsq-RAAAAAJ&hl=en