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Professor Miguel A. Méndez-Rojas is a Mexican chemist interested on developing research on the interfases between coordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, inorganic biomedicine, material's chemistry, nanoscience, and nanotechnology. He currently works at the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, México. He is a pioneering educator in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Mexico, having created the first undergraduate program in this field in Mexico and Latin America in 2006. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) (Level III, the highest rank) since 2001, the American Chemical Society (since 1997), the Mexican Chemical Society (since 2019), and the National Network of Nanoscience (RedNano, now extinct). Among several honors, he has been awarded the Medal "UDLAP's Education Commitment" in two ocassions (2013 and 2019), the Science & Technology State Award on Science Dissemination 2014, the 2015 George Brown Jr. Award from the University of California Institute for Mexico and California (UC MEXUS) for his Collaborative Research Project presented, and the 2022 "Andres Manuel del Río" National Award in Chemistry, presented by the Mexican Chemical Society for his contributions to chemistry education.
Professor Mendez-Rojas completed his undergraduate studies at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Chemistry, with emphasis in Physical Chemistry (1997) and earned a Ph.D. In Inorganic Chemistry (X-ray crystallography and Materials Chemistry) at the Department of Chemistry of the Texas Christian University, under the supervision of the expert crystallographer Dr William H. Watson Jr. (2001).
He returned to Mexico in 2001, to the Center for Chemical Research at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (2001-2002), under a CONACYT Repatriation Chair, and after a short time, he moved to Puebla to become a Full Professor at UDLAP. There, he has been Director of the Center for Chemical & Biological Research, chairman of the Department of Chemical & Biological Sciences and Full Time Professor. He was the Coordinator of the Nanotechnology Program at UDLAP from 2006 to 2021.
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Dr. Miguel A. Méndez-Rojas
Department of Chemical & Biological Sciences
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Ex-Hda. de Sta. Catarina Martir
San Andrés Cholula, Puebla
C.P. 72820, México
+52 222 2292607
+52 222 2292416 fax
miguela.mendez at udlap.mx
@nanoprofe (at X-Twitter)
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