Dr. Rafael A. Adrian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, and received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Baylor University in 2004. Dr. Adrian completed his formal training with Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Houston in 2004 and the University of Texas at San Antonio from 2005 to 2007. Before joining the University of the Incarnate Word as an Assistant Professor in August 2008, he held a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the renowned Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.