Armando Salinas Rodriguez, currently a research professor at CINVESTAV-IPN Unidad Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. Previously, research scientist at Chalk River Laboratories of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ontario, Canada. B. Eng. in Chemical Metallurgical Engineering from UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico; Diploma in Metallurgy from The Sheffield University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England; M. Eng. and Ph. D. from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Member and Past President of the Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales and currently member of its Board of Directors. Member of the Materials Research Society.