Claudio A. Estrada,  Renewable Energy Institute of the National University of Mexico  (Instituto de Energías Renovables de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México).  Prof. Estrada is a physicist from UNAM and has a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University, USA. Prof. Estrada has worked for the IER-UNAM since June 1988. His areas of specific interest are transport phenomena in solar systems, mainly in solar concentration systems. He has published over 80 research papers and was an associate editor of the International Journal of Solar Energy. He has been the president of the Mexican Association of Solar Energy (ANES) and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). He has won several awards, among them the award from the Mexican Society of Physics for the Development of Physics in Mexico (2009), and was director of the Center for Energy Research at UNAM (dec 2004–dec 2012), now the Renewable Energy Institute. He is currently an emeritus member of the National System of Researchers and is responsible for the project National Laboratory of Solar Concentration Systems and Solar Chemistry of Mexico.