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In memoriam

Professor Ana María Francisca Vivier Jégoux earned her undergraduate degree in Chemical Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sciences from the University of Florida in the United States and was a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) with the distinction of Emeritus Researcher since 2012. She served as a Tenured Full-Time Professor, Level C, in the area of Quantum Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa campus.

Throughout her career, Professor Vivier’s research focused on: the development of methodology and computational programs for the quantum configuration interaction method; highly accurate calculations of energy levels of atoms and of positive and negative ions; atomic spectroscopy of negative ions and IR spectroscopy of non-rigid molecules; the study of radical-molecule reactions in atmospheric chemistry; adsorption and reaction of pollutants on aerosols; and selectivity in free radical reactions.

She advised eleven graduate students in the Chemistry postgraduate program. She published around 92 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and her work received approximately 2,000 citations. In the last five years of her life, she published thirty articles on Quantum Chemistry applied to Atmospheric Chemistry reactions.

She received several awards, including the Teaching Recognition Award from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) 2000 Award for two articles identified as Citation Classics, Highly Cited Mexican Articles of the 1990s. She also served as an academic reviewer for CONACYT research projects.

Likewise, Dr. Vivier participated in evaluation processes for PIFI, PNP, PROMEP, ICyTDF, National Awards, among others. She had been a member of the Mexican Academy of Scientific Research since 1986.