Alfredo R. Vilchis-Néstor graduated as a chemist from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in 2000, the first graduate student of his generation. He later studied for a Master's degree in the Department of Chemistry at the Universitá degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy, and carried out a one-year research stay at the "G. Natta" Research Center of the Basell-Polyolefins Society in Ferrara, Italy. From 2003 to 2006, he carried out doctorate studies at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico and the National Institute of Nuclear Research (ININ). He completed a postdoctoral residency from 2008 to 2009 at the UNAM Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, Ensenada Campus. He is currently part of the Joint Research Center in Sustainable Chemistry UAEM-UNAM as the head of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory since March 2009, where he is a definitive full-time professor in Category B at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Dr. Vilchis-Nestor became a member of the National System of Researchers since 2009 as a candidate, progressed in to level I in 2012, and has been at level II since 2015. He has held a desirable PRODEP profile with the SEP since 2010. He has published his research in various indexed journals, as well as in nationally popular journals.