He was granted a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in USA, M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering and B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico. He is member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His research interest is in the nuclear reactor physics and economic and technical aspects of cogeneration alternatives of nuclear reactors. Dr. Alonso is a senior scientist at the National Institute for Nuclear Research (ININ) in Mexico and also a part time professor at the IPN. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers, and has supervised over 20 graduate students. And he has been an invited scholar in different Universities and Research Laboratories.
