Academic Career
Our Postgraduate Program
Our university has established itself as one of the most important in northern Chile, a unique territory located in Earth’s driest area, the Atacama Desert, right between the Pacific ocean and the Andes mountain range. These factors have marked the professionals who are trained in our classrooms, who give meaning to our goal of contributing to human talent development.
We are a regional state university, committed to being a state-of-the-art higher education institution that contributes to the entire country’s development, starting from the Antofagasta region. Hence, we have concentrated our work on expanding and improving undergraduate teaching from sciences to humanities, promoting research through innovative projects, consolidating our relationship with the community and various organizations in regional, national, and foreign scales, as well as strengthening undergraduate teaching.
The University of Antofagasta’s doors are open to all who wish to be a part of it. Here, you will find opportunities for your professional and personal development, which will allow you to make transcendent contributions to your families, communities, and the country.
Rectory
Rector Dr. Luis Alberto Loyola
State Professor in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Chile, also holding a Doctor of Chemical Sciences degree from that institution. He has post-doctoral studies in the research training program of the University of Chile's Faculty of Sciences, and in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)'s research centers.
Rector Loyola has had a fruitful career at the University of Antofagasta for over 40 years. First, as a student and assistant teacher at the University of Chile's North Headquarters, our alma mater’s precursor. Later on, he would continue to be a part of our classrooms, as a Lab Professor and Chair Professor of General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Natural Products and Spectroscopy Applications Chemistry courses in the Chemistry, Bachelor's in Chemistry, Chemical Analysis, Medical Technology, Dentistry and Medicine programs.
He has held various positions at our university throughout his career, as a General Director of Teaching, General Director of Research, Graduates Director, Academic Vice-Rector and Rector, currently in his third period (2018 – 2022).
Within his time as a Rector, he has also held the position of President of the Council of Rectors for the Integration of the West-Central South America Sub-region, CRISCO; Chairman of the Committee on Research, Science and Technology of the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities, CRUCH; Vice-president of the Consortium of the University of the State of Chile, CUECH.
Regarding research, he has developed many research projects (within the framework of FONDECYT, CYTED, CSIS and the European Economic Community) in the area of chemical sciences and the biological activities of natural products. It bears mentioning that he has participated in numerous scientific congresses, both national and international, regarding our country's high Andean region’s vegetable natural products chemistry.
Board
Chief of Staff: Karla Pacheco Rivas
Phone: 55 – 2 637110
E-mail address: jefe.gabinete@uantof.cl
Address: Campus Angamos, Avda. Angamos N° 601, 2nd floor.
Rector’s Secretary: Isabel Magna Castro
Phone: 55 – 2 637183
E-mail address: rectoria@uantof.cl – isabel.magna@uantof.cl
Address: Campus Angamos, Avda. Angamos N° 601, 2nd floor.
Board’s Secretary: Jacqueline Murillo Leyton
Phone: 55 – 2 637184
E-mail address: jacqueline.murillo@uantof.cl
Address: Campus Angamos, Avda. Angamos N° 601, 2nd floor.
Institutional Protocol Manager: Alejandra Tapia Silva
Phone: 55 – 2 637117
E-mail address: alejandra.tapia.silva@uantof.cl – rr.pp@uantof.cl
Address: Campus Angamos, Avda. Angamos N° 601, 3rd floor.
Institutional Protocol Secretary: Karina González Arellano
Phone: 55 – 2 513734
E-mail address: karina.gonzalez@uantof.cl – rr.pp@uantof.cl
Address: Campus Angamos, Avda. Angamos N° 601. 2nd floor.
Institutional Video
Ceremonial and Protocol
The Institutional Protocol Office is responsible for determining the University of Antofagasta’s Ceremonial and Protocol, providing support in the coordination of ceremonies, acts and manifestations of our staff. This office supports and advises various academic units in order to ensure compliance with protocol standards and the proper execution of activities.
Institutional Protocol Office:
Phone: 55 – 2 637117 | 55 – 2 513734
E-mail address: mailto:rr.pp@uantof.cl
Address: Campus Angamos, Avda. Angamos N° 601, 2nd floor, Rectory.
Institutional Quality Policy
The University of Antofagasta’s Quality Policy is formalized in the Exempt Decree No. 1416 of 2016.
The University of Antofagasta is a state institution that, through this policy, establishes the commitment of its community with the management and continuous improvement of formative, research and outreach processes.
The University of Antofagasta’s fundamental principles are:
- To have mechanisms that ensure the quality of the educational process. Having Research, Development and Innovation as one of the University’s main functions allows it to contribute to this process to benefit students’ education.
- To reach out to its environment, materializing its commitment to serve the interests of the region and the country in the face of its social and technological needs, thus receiving feedback about its formative process in terms of the relevance and quality of its academic activities, and responding to continuous training needs.
- To ensure the proper execution of all its functions through activities to improve, update and develop human talent skills.
- To emphasize institutional self-regulation through its internal quality management system, thus continuously improving its effectiveness.
The effective implementation of this quality policy will be regularly evaluated by the University’s relevant internal organisms.
Dependent Units
- General Secretariat
- Internal Comptrollery
- Legal Department
- Management and Business Analysis Bureau
- Institutional Development Projects Direction
- Quality Assurance Department
- Communications Department