Professor Francisco Matus is an agricultural engineer and completed his master’s degree at the Pontificia Universidad Católica-Chile (1989) and his doctorate at the Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands. Both programs were carried out in plant nutrition, soil fertility, and environmental science. In 2009 he was invited as a postdoctoral fellow by the Carleton University Department of Chemistry and by the Canadian Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food to join a government project to improve the efficiency of nitrogen use for the 2009-2011 farming system. ). His main research interest is the dynamics of soil nutrients and conservation in volcanic soils. He has been working on efficiency in the use of nitrogen and sequestration of carbon and nitrogen in agricultural soils and natural ecosystems. He has experience in the biogeochemistry of the carbon and nitrogen cycle in pristine forest ecosystems, in remote mountain environments and extreme areas such as Antarctic ecosystems. In 2017 he was invited by the Department of Agriculture and Soil Sciences of the Georg-August University, Göettingen, Germany to work on abiotic processes on the sequestration of nitrogen and organic carbon from the soil. Professor Matus has experience in studies of stable isotopes at the rhizosphere level and crop simulation models, has several indexed publications and an extensive network of international contacts and national collaboration with research groups in Germany, Holland, France, Canada, Belgium and New Zealand. Previously, he was Director of the PhD Program in Natural Resource Sciences at the University of La Frontera, whose significant achievements were a national accreditation for eight years (maximum 10) and an international accreditation for five years in the European Union.