Fernando Garzon

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Fernando Garzon holds a joint appointment as a UNM Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a Faculty Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratory in the 1815 organization, The Advanced Materials Laborator. His research interests include: the development of advanced gas sensors, fuel cell materials technology, energy storage technology, high temperature materials and devices, electronic conducting transition metal oxides, thin film growth, ceramic membrane technology, and solid state ionics. Fernando Garzon has co-authored over 140 scientific publications with more than 6000 citations and served as an editor for the Electrochemical Society Publication series, Solid State Ionic Devices. He is the inventor of an R&D 100 award winning high temperature combustion control sensor, and a new class of solid-state gas sensors for hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitric oxides. He holds ten patents in electrochemical technology. Fernando Garzon is the Past Chairman of the High Temperature Materials Division of the Electrochemical Society. He was named a Fellow of the Society in 2008, served as Vice President from 2009-2012, and was the President of the Electrochemical Society for 2012-13, Serves on the Council of Past Presidents, and is currently a member of the ECS Technical Affairs committee. He is also a member of the Materials Research Society, the American Ceramics Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Positions:

Sandia National Laboratory (2014-current)
Faculty Research Scientist (Distinguished Staff Appointment),
Materials Science Department, 1815 Organization,  Advanced Materials Laboratory

University of New Mexico (2014-current)
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department
Member, Center for Microengineered Materials

Los Alamos National Laboratory (1988-2014)
Scientist V; Materials Chemistry Team Leader (9 members, 5 PhD Scientists)
Electronic & Electrochemical Materials & Devices Group MPA (MST)-11 (1997-present)
Deputy Group Leader MST-11, (1999-2001)
Technical Project Leader (1994-1997)
Technical Staff Member, MST-11 (1989-1993)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1988-1989)

Selected Honors and Awards:
Los Alamos National Laboratory 2012 Fellow’s Prize for Scientific Leadership
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 2010
DOE-EERE Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program 2009 Award for “Impurity Effects in Polymer Fuel Cells”
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 2009
Fellow of the Electrochemical Society 2008 (<2% of membership)
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 2007
Fuel Cell Seminar (San Antonio, TX USA) 2004 Best Poster Award
Scientific American’s Top 50 Science and Technology Achievements for 2003, Development of Sulfur Tolerant Fuel Cell Anodes
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 2003
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 2001
R&D 100 Awards 1999 - Sulfur Resistant Oxygen Sensor Technology
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 1997
Los Alamos Technology Transfer Award 1996

Professional and Synergistic Activities:
Member, Electrochemical Society, Materials Research Society, American Ceramics Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society For Solid State Ionics
Member, Los Alamos Science and Engineering Council (Technical advisory board to LANL Director) 2002-2004
Member, Los Alamos LDRD-ER Materials Committee 2001
Member, Los Alamos, Fellows Committee 1997-1998

Patents:

• Colorometric radiation detector, FH Garzon, K Ramaiyan, K Troche, TJ Boyle, US Patent App. 17/382,140, 2022.
• Ion exchange membrane separated two electrode flow analyzer for continuous aqueous electrochemical heavy metal detection, TQ Casuse, F Garzon, JMC Corrales, US Patent App. 17/356,203, 2021.
• Colorimetric radiation detector, TJ Boyle, FH Garzon, US Patent 11,086,028, 2021.

Selected Publications:

• Evaluation of Applied Stress on Atmospheric Corrosion and Pitting Characteristics in 304L Stainless Steel, J Plumley, christopher alexander, X Wu, S Gordon, Z Yu, N Kemp, CORROSION, 3975, 2022.
• Design of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion in High Temperature Environment, K Ramaiyan, LH Denoyer, A Benavidez, I Matanovic, FH Garzon, ECS Meeting Abstracts, 1352, 2021.
• Additive Manufacturing of Mixed Potential Gas Sensors for Natural Gas Emissions Monitoring, L Tsui, S Halley, K Agi, FH Garzon, ECS Meeting Abstracts, 1379    , 2021.
• Durability Constraints in the Design of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion: Support from Theory and Computations, I Matanovic, AS Lee, A Benavidez, SK Nayak, YS Kim, FH Garzon, ECS Meeting Abstracts, 1351, 2021.
• Energy Agility for Space Vehicle Applications Enabled by Bipropellant Consuming Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, TL Peng, A Spears, JB Plumley, L Tsui, FH Garzon, ECS Meeting Abstracts, 1760, 2021.
• Selective electrochemical oxidative coupling of methane mediated by Sr2Fe1. 5Mo0. 5O6-δ and its chemical stability, KP Ramaiyan, LH Denoyer, A Benavidez, FH Garzon, Communications Chemistry 4 (1), 1-9, 2021.
• Combined Mixed Potential Electrochemical Sensors and Artificial Neural Networks for the Quantificationand Identification of Methane in Natural Gas Emissions Monitoring, S Halley, L Tsui, F Garzon, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 168 (9), 097506, 2021.