María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces
María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces | |
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| Director of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies | |
| Assumed office 9 May 2023 | |
| President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Preceded by | Herself (as Director of the National Council of Science and Technology |
| Director of the National Council of Science and Technology | |
| In office 1 December 2018 – 8 May 2023 | |
| President | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Preceded by | Enrique Cabrero |
| Succeeded by | Herself (as Director of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 11, 1959 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Relatives | Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (brother) |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico (BS, MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Awards | National Prize for Arts and Sciences (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, evolutionary biology, developmental biology |
| Institutions | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces (born July 11, 1959) is a Mexican professor of molecular genetics at National Autonomous University of Mexico and the director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología appointed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018.