Awards

Carlos Díaz was educated at the University of Chile, Columbia University (MSc), and the Imperial College of the University of London (DIC, PhD). He taught chemical thermodynamics and extractive metallurgy at the University of Chile, where he also held the positions of Head of the Department of Mining and Director of the School of Engineering. In 1975, he joined Inco Limited. In his capacity as Head of the Pyrometallurgy Section of the J.R. Gordon Research Laboratory, he was responsible for research leading to new copper and nickel smelting and converting processes. He retired from Inco in 1997. At present, he is Director of the Centre for Chemical Process Metallurgy, an industry-university cooperative research organization, based at the University of Toronto, where he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Carlos was actively involved in the organization of Copper 87, the first of the Copper-Cobre series of international conferences, and on each of the succeeding copper conferences. He is the author or co-author of a book on the thermodynamic properties of copper smelting slag systems, more than 50 technical papers and 15 patents of invention, and co-editor of numerous international conference proceedings, including several of the Copper-Cobre conferences. He is a past-president of the Metallurgical Society of CIM, a fellow of CIM and a member of the Chilean Institute of Mining Engineers. Carlos Díaz is the recipient of Canadian, Chilean and American awards.

Carlos and Alicia celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2006. They have five children, nine grandchildren and a great-grandson.