Francisco Javier Mendieta

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]

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
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Alma materUNAM and Télécom ParisTech[1]
Notable awardsEmilio Rosenblueth Prize, Mexican Academy of Engineering[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
  1. 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.
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