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Dr. Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza

Since November 2025, he has served as the Rector of the Universidad del Caribe (UNICARIBE) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Control Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Additionally, he holds a second Master of Science and a Ph.D. from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, in a joint program with the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

He has more than 30 years of experience in academic leadership roles at Tecnológico de Monterrey, having served as Program Director, Director of Research Centers, and Dean of Engineering for the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, as well as Rector of the Mexico City Campus. At this institution, he led all research groups in Engineering and Science, as well as three national research centers: the Water Center, the Biotechnology Center, and the Center for Innovation in Digital Technologies.

He is an expert in the development and implementation of strategies to improve the international positioning and prestige of higher education institutions. He is recognized for his results and the development of Academia–Industry linkage models, as well as Scientific Diplomacy and Strategic Relations. He has implemented successful development programs for research professors and teaching faculty aimed at fostering science- and technology-based entrepreneurship.

In addition to his administrative career in Higher Education, Dr. Ramírez-Mendoza engages in research activities. His research areas include applications of automatic control to the dynamics of automotive vehicles and electromobility. He has more than 400 publications in indexed journals, conferences, books, and book chapters, and over 6,700 citations. He has been granted 3 technological innovation patents and has supervised more than 40 Master’s students and trained 6 Ph.D.s in Engineering Sciences and Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Ramírez-Mendoza has recently been recognized with the highest level of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII), beginning in 2026, at level three (3). In 2025, Stanford University in the United States and Elsevier Publishing included Dr. Ramírez-Mendoza in the list of the top 2% most cited scientists in the world.

He is a distinguished international professor affiliated with Mexico’s largest Higher Education system, the National Technological System of Mexico (Tec Nacional), and is also an international professor at several universities in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. He is a certified consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and an expert in ISO 56001, the Innovation Management System standard.

  • Fusion Technology.
  • Nuclear Technology.
  • Laser and Particle Beams.
  • Journal Quantum
  • Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.
  • Physics Letters B.
  • Nuclear Europe.
  • Nuclear Instrument and Methods.
  • Participation in some 150 international conferences, as invited speaker at more than one third of them, as session chair and as organizing chair or chair of the international committee.
  • OECD-NEA Data Bank. Paris. September-November 1981.
  • Lebedev Institute. Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Moscow. December 1985.
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford. September 1985.
  • European Center for Atomic and Molecular Calculations, Saclay (France). September 1985.
  • Naval Research Laboratory. Washington, D.C. United States. May.
  • Ispra Research Centre (EURATOM). Ispra (Italy). November 1986.
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory. United States. September 1987–November 1993.
  • Livermore National Laboratory. United States. November 1989–October 1992.
  • University of Florida. Gainesville. United States. October 1989. June–August 1991.
  • Ecole Polytechnique (LULI Laboratory). France, from 1993 to 1999.
  • Visiting professor at the Summer School of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi'an (China). (July 2018).
  • Visiting professor at Summer School at Polytechnical University of Saint Petersburg (Russia). (July 2018 and July 2019).
  • Visiting professor at the Balseiro Institute (Argentina) (August–November 2019).
  • Visiting professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (January–March 2020).
  • Purdue University (USA) (December 2016).
  • Tongi University (China) (December 2017).
  • Xi'an Jiaotong (China) (October 2018) (April 2019).
  • Fission and Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology.
  • Climate Change and Energy Transition Analysis.
  • Knowledge management.
  • Jan Runermark Award 2018, by the European Nuclear Society Young Generation Network.
  • Jose Artigas Foundation, 1983, to the best PhD during the Academic Course 1982-83 defended at College of Industrial Engineering (UPM).
  • Honorable Mention from the Spanish Nuclear Society, 2002.
  • Award de la European Nuclear Education Network Association, 2018.
  • Medal of Honor from the ETSII. December 2022.
  • Award for professional achievement. Alumni Association. 2023.