[13] He has served as a referee for many distinguished peer-reviewed journals, including Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones Mathematicae, and as an evaluator for the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico, a research foundation promoting science and technology in Chile.

He has given invited talks in conferences, workshops and at academic institutions in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, China, Chile, Poland, Mexico, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal and India.

He joined Penn State's Eberly College of Science Department of Mathematics in 2011 as a professor, and holds the Anatole Katok professorship since 2019.

[1] In 2005, Rodriguez Hertz received Premio Roberto Caldeyro Barcia Award from Uruguay's Basic Science Development Program.

[16] In 2017, Rodriguez Hertz has been selected to receive the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Physical Sciences.