Marcelo Zambra was born in Santiago, Chile, on March 29, 1961. He received the B. Sc. Degree in physics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the D.E.A. and Docteur en Science degrees from the Université Catolique de Louvain, Laboratoire de Physique des Collisions Atomiques, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1986, 1988, and 1992, respectively.

Between 1993 and 1994, he performed a post-doctoral research at the Laboratory of Optics and Plasma Physics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Since 1995, he has been with the Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear and he was co-founder of the Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology Group.

His main research interest are the phenomena of ionization processes in transient discharges; generation, extraction, and transport of ion and electron beams; x-ray and neutron images from transient electrical discharges.

Selected publications