Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey,also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec,is a private research university based in Monterrey,Mexico,which has grown to include 35 campuses throughout the country.
The Metropolitan Autonomous University also known as UAM,is a Mexican public research university. Founded in 1974 with the support of then-President Luis Echeverria Alvarez,the institution aims to be closely linked to the social and human environment.
The Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara,commonly abbreviated to UAG or Autónoma,is a coeducational,independent,private university based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. Established in 1935,it was the first private university and medical school in Mexico. The creation of the university was a conservative response to a more-left wing direction being taken in Mexico in public higher education at the time. It was first conceived with the name Universidad del Occidente,but would later be styled to Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG).
ITESO,Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara —distinct from the University of Guadalajara —also known as Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente,ITESO,is a Jesuit university in the Western Mexican state of Jalisco,located in the municipality of Tlaquepaque in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.
Consejo Nacional de Humanidades,Ciencias,y Tecnologías is Mexico's entity in charge of the promotion of scientific and technological activities,setting government policies for these matters,and granting scholarships for postgraduate studies. It is the equivalent of the US's National Science Foundation and Argentina's CONICET. It is officially designated as a decentralized public agency of Mexico's federal government. CONAHCYT was founded in 1970.
María Esther Orozco Orozco is a Mexican chemist,bacteriologist,parasitologist and teacher.
The history of science and technology in Mexico spans many years.
Manuel Sánchez is a Mexican economist with a wide-ranging professional career that includes positions in academics,banking,and central banking. He was nominated by President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa on April 23,2009,as Deputy Governor and member of the Board of Governors at Banco de México,Mexico's central bank,for a term that ended on December 31,2016. His appointment was ratified by the Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress on May 27,2009.
The Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada is a public research center sponsored by the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) in the city of Ensenada,Baja California,and specialized in Earth Sciences,Oceanography,Life Sciences and Applied Physics.
Rossana Reguillo is a Mexican scholar known for her research on youth,the city as a social space,the concept of "fear" as a social construct,and the relationship between communication,culture,and politics in Latin America. She currently holds positions as a professor at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Additionally,she has served as a visiting professor at New York University.
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores or SNI is a governmental agency established in Mexico in 1984 to promote both the quantity and quality of research in Mexico,especially in the sciences. In the 1980s,the country suffered from “brain drain,”with talent leaving Mexico for better economic opportunities in other places in the world. SNI first worked to establish compensation guides to keep researchers in the country,but since has also been involved in the reform of Mexico's graduate-level education. Membership in the system is prestigious,especially in Levels II,III,and Emeritus,which require demonstration of significant contributions in research as well as teaching and the promotion of research in Mexico.
Mauricio de la Maza-Benignos is a Mexican conservationist,naturalist,zoologist and multi award winning filmmaker. He is also a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers. In addition to his work in ichthyology,he is an agronomist and zootechnician,a jurist,an administrator,and an editor.
Juan Benito Artigas Hernández was an architect who was born in Spain but lived in Mexico since he was thirteen years old. Artigas held a PhD in architecture from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and became a level 3 member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT since 1999. Artigas worked as academician,researcher and restoration expert. His work is recognized for both his research on Mexican colonial and modern architecture.
Javier Laynez Potisek is a Mexican jurist and since December 10,2015,a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) of Mexico.
María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces is a Mexican professor of molecular genetics at National Autonomous University of Mexico and the director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología appointed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018.
Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez is a Mexican epidemiologist,author,and public health official who has served as head of the Undersecretariat of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Mexican Secretariat of Health since 2018. Since January 2020,he has also been the spokesman and one of the lead members of the federal governments response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Alfredo Alejandro Careaga is a Mexican engineer,physicist,mathematician,conservationist and ecologist. He was the founder and general director of the Quintana Roo Research Center,AC. He was responsible for coordinating the research and actions that led to the establishment of Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve,the first and largest tropical protected area in Mexico. In 2004,he received the Presidential Ecological Merit Award in the individual category,for his contributions to the protection of natural resources and the sustainable management of the environment.
Julia Tagüeña Parga is a Mexican physicist from the School of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Doctor of Science from the University of Oxford.
Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula is an agricultural engineer with a specialty in agronomy who serves as the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) in the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Ana Cecilia Noguez Garrido is a Mexican physicist,professor,and science communicator;she is a researcher and was the first female director of the Institute of Physics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 2019 to 2023. Cecilia Noguez specializes in the interaction of light with matter on a nanometric scale. In 2016,she was awarded with the National Prize for Arts and Sciences.
