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In memoriam

Professor Alfredo Macías (1958-2024) earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 1991 under the supervision of Heinz Dehnen and Octavio Obregón at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus.

Starting in 2009, he held the designation of National Researcher Level III, with a prolific academic output of over 200 publications, including nearly 100 articles, book chapters, books, edited books, conference proceedings, and educational publications. Additionally, he organized more than 30 events, delivered around 100 lectures, and led 15 research projects.

Throughout his academic career, he supervised several doctoral and postdoctoral theses, contributing to the training of a new generation of researchers.

He was the founding President of the Gravitational and Mathematical Physics Division of the Mexican Physical Society (1992–1994) and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1997. He also served on the International Coordinating Committee of the Marcel Grossmann Meeting from 2002 and was a member of the jury for the 2013 Mexico Prize. He chaired the "Scalar Fields in Cosmology" parallel session at the Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Rome, Italy, in 2015 and 2018. In 2008, he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS) and established a collaboration agreement with the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA, Italy) and UAM (Mexico).

He also participated as an evaluator in CONACYT calls, such as "CONACYT-DAAD Scholarships" (2007 and 2008) and “Bicentennial Scholarships Abroad CONACYT 2010,” and served as a referee for prestigious international journals including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Advances in Space Research, European Physical Journal C, and Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, among others. In 2008, he was invited to the CONACYT-DAAD Roadshow.