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Biographical Information

Prof. Estrada is a physicist from UNAM and has a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the New Mexico State University, USA. Prof. Estrada has been working for the Institute of Renewable Energy of UNAM since June 1988 and his areas of specific interest are transport phenomena in solar systems, mainly in solar concentration systems. He has published over 170 research papers in conferences and in journals of the Science Citation Index and is associate editor of the International Journal of Solar Energy. He has advised 34 theses (11 of doctorate). He is one of the most active and important promoters of solar energy in Mexico; he has been co-organizer and member of scientific committees of several national and international meetings. He has been president of the Mexican Association of Solar Energy (ANES) and member of the Board of Directors of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). 

He has won several awards, among them, the award from the Mexican Society of Physics for the Development of Physics in Mexico (2009). He was director of the Center for Energy Research of UNAM (dec 2004 - dec 2012), now Renewable Energy Institute. Under his term as Director, work was done to transform the Energy Research Center in the Institute of Renewable Energy in January 2013. At present, he is member of the National System of Researchers with Level III and he is responsible for the project National Laboratory on Solar Concentrating Systems and Solar Chemistry of Mexico.