Teresa Alonso-Rasgado

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Teresa Alonso Rasgado
Born
Maria Teresa Alonso-Rasgado

Chihuahua, Mexico
Alma mater Instituto Politécnico Nacional (BSc)
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (PhD)
Known for Science diplomacy
Awards Ohtli Award (2016)
Scientific career
Fields Orthopaedic engineering [1]
Institutions Queen Mary University of London
University of Manchester
Thesis The effect of vibration on casting surface quality  (1999)
Website www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/staff/t.alonso

Maria Teresa Alonso-Rasgado is a professor of mechanical engineering and dean for global engagement in the faculty of science and engineering at Queen Mary University of London. [1] [2] She was awarded the Ohtli Award in 2016, the most significant honour of the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. In 2019 she was awarded the Lázaro Cárdenas medal for academic excellence.

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Early life and education

Alonso-Rasgado is from Chihuahua. [3] She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degree in civil engineering at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. [4] She moved to Manchester for her doctoral studies, where she was a graduate student in mechanical engineering at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She completed her PhD in 1999 and was appointed a research fellow in the same department.

Research and career

In 2005 Alonso-Rasgado was appointed a lecturer at the University of Manchester. She was promoted to Professor in 2012, where she was the head of the Bioengineering and Reliability and Maintainability Research Groups. Alonso-Rasgado works on mathematical modelling of biological systems as well as musculoskeletal analysis and biomechanics. [5] [6] This research includes investigation into the biocompatibility and reliability of medical implants. [4] She works on the design of total care functional products that comprise both hardware and software services. [7] Her research has included the development wound healing and scarring models. [8] [9] Alonso-Rasgado was appointed a professor at Queen Mary University of London in 2018.

International advocacy

From 2010 to 2018 Alonso-Rasgado was the Honorary Representative of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico. [10] She was Director of the Latin American Postgraduate Programme (LAPP) at the University of Manchester, which has partnerships in Latin America, North America and the Caribbean. [11] [12] She ran a series of activities that brought together academics, scientists, students and centre directors from Mexico and the United Kingdom. [13] [14] She was awarded the Ohtli Award for her efforts to promote academic exchange between the United Kingdom and Mexico. [15] [16] At the time, Alonso-Rasgado was a professor at the University of Manchester, which had the highest number of Mexican postgraduate students in the world. [15] [17] [18] She developed scholarship schemes in collaboration with the Organization of American States to support scientists and engineers starting their PhD programmes in the United Kingdom. [19] In 2019 Alonso-Rasgado was awarded the Lázaro Cárdenas medal for academic excellence. [20]

In 2019 Alonso-Rasgado was appointed Dean for Global Engagement at Queen Mary University of London. [21] She has continued her diplomacy work with Mexico, working with the Citibanamex Youth of Excellence program to develop an eight week English language course to prepare Mexican scientists for their postgraduate studies in London. [22] [23] Since joining Queen Mary University of London, Alonso-Rasgado has created, developed, managed, and delivered a Sandpit Initiative in Mexico to develop joint, multidisciplinary, matched-funding research projects between Mexican institutions and QMUL academics in areas including air pollution [24] & cancer diagnosis. [25] In 2020, Alonso-Rasgado negotiated, created, developed and delivered a Dual Master by research (MRes) with the Advanced Materials Research Center (CIMAV) in Mexico. [26] The following year, she created a Dual Master by research (MRes) with the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), one of the aims of which is to help address gender inequality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by targeting female students. [27] In 2021, Alonso-Rasgado created and negotiated a landmark 5-year agreement for Queen Mary University of London with the Polytechnic Foundation (PF) and National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) of Mexico. [28] The agreement covers initiatives ranging from fully funded PhD, PGT and dual degree programmes to joint research funding & CPD courses. in 2022, Alonso-Rasgado created and negotiated another substantial agreement for Queen Mary University of London, this time with the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) encompassing a wide range of activities. [29]

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References

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  2. ↑ Teresa Alonso-Rasgado publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Rivas, Venessa. "Becarán a cien chihuahuenses para posgrado". El Heraldo de Chihuahua (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  4. 1 2 "El camino de nuestros científicos en Reino Unido: ¿cómo puede México beneficiarse de sus científicos en el extranjero? (III)". Mito | Revista Cultural (in Spanish). 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
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  6. ↑ Lockwood, David. "Staff: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London". www.sems.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  7. ↑ Alonso-Rasgado, Teresa; Thompson, Graham; Elfström, Bengt-Olof (2004). "The design of functional (total care) products". Journal of Engineering Design. 15 (6): 515–540. doi:10.1080/09544820412331271176. ISSN   0954-4828. S2CID   110185757.
  8. ↑ Bayat, Ardeshir; Baguneid, Mohamed; Alonso-Rasgado, Teresa; Benatar, Brian; Morris, Julie; Greaves, Nicholas S. (2015). "Acute Cutaneous Wounds Treated with Human Decellularised Dermis Show Enhanced Angiogenesis during Healing". PLOS ONE. 10 (1): e0113209. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1013209G. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113209 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   4300088 . PMID   25602294.
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  25. ↑ "'Sandpit' workshop in Mexico results in research project to prove the diagnostic potential of saliva for breast cancer". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
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  27. ↑ "Queen Mary to launch women-only MRes with the Autonomous University of Baja California to tackle gender inequality in STEM". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
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