Gustavo R. Paz-Pujalt

Gustavo R. Paz-Pujalt (born 1954) is a Peruvian American scientist and inventor. He holds 45 US Patents [ cite web | title = USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database | publisher = United States Patent and Trademark Office | url = http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=paz-pujalt&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT | format = html | accessdate = 2008-04-06] and 59 International Patents mainly in the areas of remote sensing, [ cite web | title = Detecting the presence of failure(s) in existing man-made structures | publisher = Freepatentsonline | url = http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6952487.html | format = html | accessdate = 2008-04-06] thin films, sensors, upconversion materials, and business processes. He is also the author of over 30 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. [ cite web | title = Google Scholar | publisher = Google.com | url = http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=paz-pujalt&hl=en&lr= | format = html | accessdate = 2008-04-06]

He was Eastman Kodak Company Senior Research Associate from 1986 to 2004, Director of Technology, Xerox Corporation-IPValue Management (Goldman Sachs, Atlantic Group Partnership) from 2004 to 2007, River Valley, CEO, (2006-Present).

Co-editor of ["Gas-Phase and Surface Chemistry in Electronic Materials Processing", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Vol. 334. [http://de.scientificcommons.org/g_r_paz-pujalt]

He was born August 9, 1954 in Arequipa, Peru, and graduated from San Andrés (Colegio) (class of 1970--The Silver Anniversary Class) an Anglo Peruvian college preparatory school in Lima, Peru, where he graduated with honors and received the Miller Prize for accomplishments in English. He passed the Cambridge English proficiency test one full year ahead of his peers. Originally called Anglo-Peruano, Colegio San Andres, was founded by Dr. John A. Mackay who later became the Director of the world renown Princeton Theological Seminary. Mackay was also responsible for the formation of the YMCA Latin American organizations.

Paz-Pujalt received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry - Surface Science from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1985. His doctoral adviser was George Keulks. He was also mentored by Distinsguished Professor W. Keith Hall [http://www.nacatsoc.org/history.asp?HistoryID=2] . During this time he studied Surface Science under Gert Ertl [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ertl] , winner of the Nobel Price in Chemistry in 2007. Paz-Pujalt credits Professor Ralf Vanselow http://alchemy.chem.uwm.edu/research/vanselow/ for a strong formation in Chemical Thermodynamics and for the understanding of surface phenomena at the atomic level. Paz-Pujalt holds a B.S. in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire. He has received numerous executive level diplomas from MIT and Wharton.

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