Professor José Alejandre Ramírez received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. He has done sabbatical stays at the University of Southampton, England (2 years), Mexican Petroleum Institute (1 year), and the University of Cambridge, England (1 year). He has been head of the Chemistry Department and belongs to the National System of Researchers at level III.

He has lectured in national and international forums and has published 91 research articles in specialized journals. According to Google Scholar, he has more than 4600 citations to his works with an H index of 35 and has two articles of the most read Mexican authors according to the American Institute of Physics. He has directed 15 undergraduate, nine master's, and eight doctoral students. He has received in his research group three postdoctoral fellows, four sabbaticals, and a curricular professor. He has developed projects with Unilever (England), Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo and Centro de Investigación en Polímeros-COMEX.

His lines of research are oriented toward understanding the effect that molecular interactions have on the physicochemical properties of matter. He uses quantum chemistry methods and molecular simulation to develop :

1 Molecular dynamics methods, Monte Carlo and dissipative particle dynamics.
2 Non-polarizable force fields of polar and ionic liquids as well as solids.
3 Electrolytes to improve ionic conductivity in energy storage devices for lithium ions and other metals using polar solvents, polar solvents and
using polar solvents, ionic liquids, polymers and carbon nanotubes.
4 Solvents to increase the solubility and release of drugs in water using cocrystals, ionic liquids at room temperature, cyclodextrins and cyclodextrins.
ionic liquids, cyclodextrins and polymers.
5 Studies of drug and ion transport in lipid membranes and proteins at the mesoscopic level.
6 Methods for the extraction of contaminant compounds in gasoline and diesel.