Prof. Luis Alejandro Galicia Luna has won the title of ASTRA 2023 under Asia's
Outstanding Researcher Award
Dr. Luis Alejandro Galicia Luna since 1994 is full time Professor, in the graduate section of Chemical
Engineering Department and in 1997 from scratch created the laboratory Applied Thermodynamics
Laboratory for Supercritical Fluid Processes. Join the National Polytechnic Institute on September 1,
1980 (ESIA) and from 1990 to ESIQIE-IPN. From july 1979 to february 1994 he worked as a
researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute. Dr. Galicia-Luna obtained his BS in Physics in 1980
from the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, his DEA in Chemical Engineering in September 1986 and
PhD in Process Engineering in September 1990 from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de
Paris, France. Dr. Galicia-Luna was international guest as a lecture in USA, South Africa, Brazil and
France. Member of international scientific committees and chair session of international conferences:
AIChE, ICCT, EQUIFASE, PROSCIBA. Member of editorial boards of international journals:
"Journal Chemical & Engineering Data (2013-2016)" and "Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics
(2010-2023)." Member of board of directors of the International Association of Chemical
Thermodynamics (IACT 2010-2023). Visiting professor as jury of doctoral exams of the: School of
Mines de Paris, France, University of Delaware (USA), Aalto University School of Chemical
Technology, (Finland), Department of Chemistry, University of North Bengal, (India) and the
University of KwaZulu- Natal in South Africa. Reviewers member committees of more than 40
international journals. He has published more than 80 international publications and more than 200
papers presented at international conferences. Former Undergraduate, Graduate Students: 61. He has
more than 40 years as a professor at the IPN.
He is a member of the Mexican Academy Sciences since 2004 and emeritus national researcher by the
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia – CONACYT since January 1, 2022. He is Honorary
Professor in The School of Engineering, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Doctor Honoris Causa, Doctor
Honoris Causa, por la Organización Internacional para la Inclusión y Calidad Educativa OIICE, 2021,
Peru. Galardón a la Excelencia Educativa, Edición Cusco 2021, por la Organización Internacional para
la Inclusión y Calidad Educativa OIICE. Fluid Phase Equilibria Certificate of Excellence (The
Netherlands) Award, August 2013. Chemical Thermodynamics Certificate of Excellence (England)
Award, August 2013. Guest Editor of Fluid Phase Equilibria Journal, 2003, L.A. Galicia Luna, D.
Richon, T.W. de Loos, Volume 210, Issue 2, Pages 145-339 (15 August 2003. Guest Editor of Fluid
Phase Equilibria Journal, 2007, L.A. Galicia-Luna, D. Richon, T.W. de Loos, Volume 259, Issue 1,
Pages 1-134 (1 October 2007). Guest Editor of Fluid Phase Equilibria Journal, 2010, L.A. Galicia
Luna, T.W. de Loos, Henri V. Kehiaian, Volume 296, Issue 1, Pages 1-72 (15 September 2010). Award
and Professor Merit Medal, Maestro Altamirano, 2022, IPN; IPN Scientists-Eighty Stories-Celebrating
the 80th Anniversary of the IPN, 2016; Award and Professor Merit Medal, Maestro Rafael Ramírez,
2011, IPN.
Juan de Dios Batiz Award– IPN-2011; Award for Teaching and Advisor of Students -ESIQIE-IPN-
2008; Research Excellence Award, Instituto Politécnico Nacional – 2007.