ALVAREZ BUYLLA ROCES, MARIA ELENA

María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces has been the director of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) in Mexico since 2018. Álvarez-Buylla is a scientist who specializes in evolutional ecology within the framework of Development Biology, from the perspective of the Biology of Systems. She is a full-time “C” researcher in the Department of Functional Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she founded the Plant Molecular Genetics, Epigenetics, Development and Evolution Laboratory. She is the co-founder and research coordinator of the Complexity Sciences Center at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2017, she received the National Science and Arts Award in the category of physical-mathematical and natural sciences. Dr. María Elena Álvarez-Buylla is one of the most prominent scientific leaders in Mexico in the promotion of science that is committed to equality, justice and social welfare. Since 2008, she has been the founder and general coordinator of the Union of Society-Committed Scientists.