Sebastian Calderon Cazorla

Postdoctoral associate

Education

08/2017-12/2024          Ph.D. in Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Dissertation: “Strategies for overcoming ionic transport limitations in polymer electrolytes”.

Advisors: Prof. Alexander Wei and Prof. Ernesto Marinero

02/2009-10/2014          B.Sc. in Chemistry, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile

Dissertation: “Study of the electrocatalytic activity of cobalt-phthalocyanines towards the electrooxidation of hydrogen peroxide”.

Advisors: Prof. José H. Zagal and Prof. Federico Tasca

Research

03/2025 – Present        Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University

04/2016 – 07/2017       Research Assistant

Departamento de Química de los Materiales, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Publications

1. Calderon Cazorla, S., Balaji T, P., Garza, D., Marinero, E., Effect of (MgCoNiCuZn)O in the dielectric properties of PEO-based composite polymer electrolytes. (Manuscript in Progress) (2025)
2. Balaji T, P., Calderon Cazorla, S., Choudhury, S., Marinero, E., Enhanced ionic conductivity of PEO-ENR binary composite polymer electrolytes through addition of a high entropy oxide filler (Manuscript in Progress) (2025).
3. Mikhalyova, E. A., Zeller. M., Jasinski, J. P., Butcher, R. J., Carella, L. M., Sedykh, A. E., Gavrilenko, K. S., Smola, S. S., Frasso, M., Calderon Cazorla, S., Perera, K., Shi, A., Ranjbar, H. G., Smith, C., Deac, A., Liu, Y., McGee, S. M., Dotsenko, V. P., Kumke, M. U., Müller-Buschbaum, K., Rentschler, E., Addison, A. W., Pavlishchuk, V. V., Combination of single-molecule magnet behaviour and luminescence properties in a new series of lanthanide complexes with tris(pyrazolyl) borate and oligo(ꞵ-diketonate) ligands. Dalton Transactions, 49, 7774 (2020).
4. Pavlishchuk, A., Naumova, D., Zeller, M., Calderon Cazorla, S., Addison, A. W., The crystal structures of LnCu53+ (Ln = Gd, Dy and Ho) 15-metallacrown-5 complexes and a reevaluation of the isotypic EuIII analogue. Acta Crystallographica, E75, 1215-1223 (2019).
5. Silva, N., Calderon, S., Paez, M. A., Oyarzun, M. P., Koper, M. T. M., Zagal, J. H., Probing the Fen+ /Fe(n−1)+ redox potential of Fe phthalocyanines and Fe porphyrins as a reactivity descriptor in the electrochemical oxidation of cysteamine. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 819, 502–510 (2017).
6. Zúñiga, C., Tasca, F., Calderon, S., Farias, D., Recio, F. J., Zagal, J. H., Reactivity indexes for the electrocatalytic oxidation of hydrogen peroxide promoted by several ligand-substituted and unsubstituted Co phthalocyanines adsorbed on graphite. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 765, 22-29 (2015).