He received the degrees of Technician in Electronics and Electrical Engineer at the Federico Santa María Technical University (USM) in 1977 and his doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1985.
From 2005 to 2008 Dr. Rodríguez's research group was recognized as one of the two Centers of Excellence in Engineering in Chile.
[4] He was previously professor of electrical engineering at the Federico Santa María Technical University, as well as its rector for the periods 2005-2006 (Interim) and 2006-2010 (voted by the University community).
In 2014 he received Chile's National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technologies.
[5] The same year, he was also ranked by the World Most Influential Scientific Minds, a Thomson Reuters affiliate, as one of 200 highly cited researchers.