Francisco Zaera

{{short description|Venezuelan-American chemist}}

Francisco Zaera is a Venezuelan-American chemist, currently a distinguished professor at University of California, Riverside and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,{{cite web|url=https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/AnnualReports/2001/fellows.pdf|title=Francisco Zaera|publisher=aaas.org|accessdate=November 23, 2019}} the American Chemical Society{{cite web|url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/fellows/list-of-2009-acs-fellows.html|title=2009 Fellows|publisher=American Chemical Society|date=July 27, 2009|accessdate=November 23, 2019}} and the American Vacuum Society.{{cite web|url=https://www.avs.org/Awards-Recognition/Society-Honors/Fellow-of-the-Society|title=List of Fellows|publisher=American Vacuum Society|accessdate=November 23, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129190644/https://avs.org/Awards-Recognition/Society-Honors/Fellow-of-the-Society|url-status=dead}}

Zaera obtained his BS degree from the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela in 1979. He then got his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and until 1986 served as a postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory.{{cite web|url=http://chem.ucr.edu/faculty.html?id=28 |title=Francisco Zaera|publisher=ucr.edu|accessdate=November 23, 2019}}