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Francisco Javier Mendieta

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Francisco Javier Mendieta
Director of the Mexican Space Agency
Assumed office
2 November 2011
Personal details
Born
Francisco Javier Mendieta Jiménez

(1955-11-28) 28 November 1955 (age 68)
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Alma materUNAM and Télécom ParisTech[1]
Notable awardsEmilio Rosenblueth Prize, Mexican Academy of Engineering[1]

Francisco Javier Mendieta Jiménez (born 28 November 1955 in San Luis Potosí) is a Mexican telecommunications engineer and academic who chaired the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (Cicese) and serves, by presidential appointment, as the founding director-general of the Mexican Space Agency.[1]

Mendieta graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in Telecommunications at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (also known as Télécom ParisTech) in Paris, France.[2]

He has conducted experiments for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and, for the STS-61-B Atlantis mission, he was designated as an eventual substitute of Rodolfo Neri Vela, the reserve payload specialist who became the first Mexican national in space.[1]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b c d Cabildo, Miguel (2 November 2011). "Francisco Javier Mendieta, nuevo director general de la AEM" (in Spanish). Proceso. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Semblanza de Francisco Javier Mendieta Jiménez" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto de Información Territorial del Estado de Jalisco. Retrieved 26 September 2014.[permanent dead link]