Fernando Hentzschel

● Develop programs and instruments aimed at strengthening capacities for transfer, adaptation, development and diffusion of technologies to support business innovation and productive development. ● Design and implement programs to link cutting-edge technological offers, with the needs of strategic sectors of the national economy, such as, for example, Mining sustainability, Green Hydrogen, adding value to lithium production, among others. ● Coordinate Corfo's Technological Development initiatives with both industrial and public stakeholders.

● Design of new technological development programs, guiding the priorities of productive innovation using technology & market assessment tools. ● Strengthen and implement Technological Intelligence tools as a tool for making strategic decisions in the area.

● Lead the re-founding process of the institution and strategic planning, refocusing the efforts of the Center to increase sector competitiveness through innovation in sustainable energy. ● Ensure the modernization of the Center's management control systems, through project management methodologies and formulation of its performance indicators. ● In charge of a multidisciplinary team, for the implementation of investment attraction programs for the deployment of NCRE in Chile.

Specialized in solar and wind technologies. o Technical assistance given to decision makers, both political and investors, generating public information. o Assistance to NCRE project developers, mainly solar and wind, advising and providing information to stakeholders. o Drafting of technical documents, such as "Best Practices Manual for the assessment of wind and solar resource." o Member of technical evaluating committees of power generation projects from renewable energy sources. o Leader and partner of studies and consultations regarding the development conditions of NCRE in Chile.

Technology internship under the supervision of Nobel Prize in Physics Professor Carlo Rubbia. As part of a multidisciplinary team, the critical parameters for a solar concentrated power plant was seted, as an input for the first public tender for the first 100MW CSP plant in Chile. In addition to the development plan of a strategic plan to promote the deployment of a solar industry and auxiliary services at the local level.

Project management on development of innovatory technologies in mining and metallurgical processes. o Leading multidisciplinary teams, both professional and technical crews, during the engineering stage, as well as its execution on field works. o Project efforts, such as; planning, project schedules, controlling and preparation of financial statements, reporting progress to the respective technical and administrative managers as well as customers. o Preparation of technical and economic project proposals to be submitted to evaluation and investment committees. o Intellectual property protection efforts of new products developed in these projects, ensuring state of art studios, drafting patent applications and claims.

Development and implementation of innovative technologies, applied to various mining-metallurgical processes. o Development and technology transfer of instrumentation for copper pyrometallurgical reactors. o Design of prototypes for industrial-scale assessment and implementation of evaluation tests, coordinating and supervising the field work, as well as interacting with suppliers and contractors. o Preparation for materials testing protocols on very high temperatures conditions. o Technical reports, devices and systems descriptions, results reporting of evaluation tests on a laboratory and / or industrial scale. o Development and coordination of training lectures and internalization to superintendents, maintainers and end users about the new technologies.

Studies on acoustic propagation in heterogeneous media with applications to the characterization of biological tissues and biomedicine, leading to a series of publications. Design and implementation of ultrasonic testing and numerical simulations, analyzing results using statistical tools and computer processing of signals.